A United Nations official belonging to the Palestinian aid agency UNRWA has been photographed holding a map of the Middle East that does not include Israel. The UN representative was joined by several high ranking Lebanese and Palestinian officials. The map included the countries of Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan, but the entire area west of the Jordan river was listed only as 'Arab Palestine'. It's not the first time Palestinian maps have excluded the Jewish state. As I said last week, less than 24 hours after the launch of the so-called Annapolis peace process in 2007, the Palestinian Authority were broadcasting a map of the proposed Palestinian state with Israel nowhere to be seen. And again following President Abbas' speech at the United Nations in 2011, in which he called for a Palestinian state to be established within '1967 borders', PA TV were presenting an entirely different set of 'borders' for their Arabic audience. It's not like Abbas is unaware of this. At a conference in Ramallah in 2009, during which he resolutely refused to recognize Israel as a 'Jewish state', Abbas was photographed gleefully receiving a gift of a map of the Middle East - minus the state of Israel.