Riyaz Patel
Speaking at the UN General Assembly in New York, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan blasted the Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories, taking a leaf from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu 2012 playbook at the UN by holding up images to illustrate his point.
Erdogan castigated Israel for its “unlawful expansionist policies” in the occupied territories, brandishing a famous time-lapse map showing facts and figures of a “shrinking” Palestine and the Zionist regime’s gradual encroachment of Palestinian land.
“The Palestinian territory under Israeli occupation has become one of the most striking places of injustice,” he told world leaders. “Israel, which was almost non-existent in 1947, has continued until this day to seize Palestinian land with the aim of eliminating the state.”
“How can the Golan Heights and the West Bank settlements be seized just like other occupied Palestinian territories before the eyes of the world? Is the aim of the initiative
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