Netanyahu said he also omitted Jordan River when asked why map does not include West Bank

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu brushed off answering why his map presentation of the Gaza Strip and region did not include a depiction of the occupied West Bank, the envisioned future home of a Palestinian state.

“I didn’t include the Dead Sea. It’s not shown on the map. I didn’t show the Jordan River. It’s not on this map. I didn’t show the Sea of Galilee,” Netanyahu told a reporter when asked about the omission.

“Those are geographical features. This is a population of [Palestinians] who live there,” the reporter responded.

Netanyahu said he didn’t “intend to drive these people away”, adding “they want to drive us away”.

 “I didn’t get into that. I was talking about Gaza. There is a whole issue of how to achieve peace between us and the Palestinians in Judea and Samaria. I didn’t get into that. That’s another press conference”.