The Spanish news agency EFE distributed on June 14 a piece of news related to Benjamin Netanyahu's Sunday's speech. In their article they say " The USA demand that Israel accepts the creation of a Palestinian state in about 22% of the historic Palestine in order to solve the Middle East conflict".
So, here is why in a very subtle way EFE misleads the public:
a) by using the 22% in that phrase, it gives the impression that Israel is in control of the other 78%. Wrong: Jordan was created and currently occupies over 50% of the area know as the "Palestine Mandate".
b) by using the term "historic Palestine", readers get the impression that there was historically a land of the Palestinians. Wrong: Palestine was a name that the Romans gave the what was then the land of Israel, after they defeated the Jews in 135 A.D. The Romans not only expelled the Jews but changed the name with the intention of totally wipe out the connection of the Jews with their land.
As it stands, almost two millennia later, the EFE and many others bought into it...
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