It looks like a singular designation in their atlas that Israel is referred to not as an enemy, but as "nonexistent." Anti-Israeli sentiment certainly creates strange bedfellows.
There's many Israelis who will also claim that Palestine does not exist.
It's colonization, and war. Israelis claim the land. Palestinians also claim the land.
NK is united with Palestine via their anti-imperialist stance.
There are many other countries that also do not recognize Israel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_recognition_of_I...
There is another `anti-` that I would use here instead.
They very openly do both those things in the West Bank.
Then you have the more extreme settler types talking about the biblical "Land of Israel" that would extend into modern Egypt, Syria and Lebanon.
But as far as I understand it, Israel is usually not the empire itself, but a bridgehead or particularly glaring example of imperialism from the West, starting with the British Empire.
> Or is the idea that the US is the Empire?
So, yes.
It were those countries that conquered those regions from the Ottoman empire and then decided among themselves to support the project of a Jewish state, against the wishes of the existing population of the region.