Social media users criticise Trump's Palestine map
Since it was announced, the US president's 'peace plan' has come in for ridicule
An image released by the White House showing the proposed plans for Israel-Palestine (White House)
Zeinab Edah-Tally-1 February 2020
US President Donald Trump earlier this week unveiled new details of his long-touted plan to address the Israel-Palestine conflict.
The 181-page document contained conceptual maps showing how Israel and a future Palestinian state could look if Palestinians agreed to sign up to the plan, which was endorsed at the White House by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Since the conceptual map was published many social media users have expressed their discontent with the proposal.
Abu Ashraf Ubaid, from Ramallah, told Arabi 21 that the map resembles the “digestive system and does not express any Palestinian dream, nor does it resemble any natural map of any country”.
Others have stated that Palestine is shown to look more like a cluster of islands with little to no contact with each other.
This map is verrrrry generously shaded to give appearance of contiguity.
100% final map will appear closer to archipelago map on the right.
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Translation: The islands of Palestine according to Trump’s vision. What amazes me is that this is the first time I have seen islands on land
Some social media users drew comparisons of the new map to the map of apartheid South Africa.
Many other examples? Try it and add what you find below. #TrumpPlanIsApartheid should go viral.
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Another mocked the map for looking more like a golf course.
I'm not trying to be paranoid but this man is building a golf course. Stay woke.
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Thousands across the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza, have denounced the plan for pushing forward a vision largely in sync with Israeli demands.
Meanwhile in neighbouring Jordan, some 3,000 people took to the streets of the capital Amman to denounce the US proposal.
Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law and architect of the US President's Middle East plan, has called the Palestinians "quite foolish" for immediately rejecting the administration's so-called "deal of the century".
