Wiping Palestine off the map
We're used to hearing complaints about Arab maps that make no mention of Israel. Now the BBC has a report turning things around... about pro-Palestinian advocates protesting an Israeli-sponsored map:
Israel's tourist ministry has admitted to a "mistake" over adverts on the London Underground after complaints that they "wipe Palestine off the map".
The ads include a map which campaigners say shows the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip - as well as Syria's Golan Heights - as integral parts of Israel.
The ministry said that in general, maps should not be used on billboards.
But it denied a Transport for London statement that it had asked for the offending posters to be removed.
Transport for London said it has received about 600 complaints about the poster, while the Advertising Standards Authority said it had had 300.
Hugh Lanning of the London-based Palestine Solidarity Campaign said the adverts were a "disingenuous attempt to remove the Palestinians from the public mind, and create a false impression about what constitutes Israel."
The posters were "selling a lie" by suggesting tourists could visit Gaza when the Hamas-run strip is subject to a strict Israeli blockade under which even some doctors and humanitarian workers have been denied entry, PSC said. ...
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My, my. Pro Pals can dish it out but they can’t take it.
They’ve repeated their lies so often that they’ve forgotten the truth. It’s near impossible to find a map in the Middle East outside Israel showing anything other than a country called Palestine in place of Israel. Then again, they couldn’t find any map with a country called Palestine anywhere anytime before it was created in the minds of the anti-Israel forces after Israel’s resurrection. Ha! Thin skinned hypocrites!
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Whitney Bodman
05/27/09 09:02 PM
Such maps are common in israel, including a map that came with my rental car. The map shows no green line at all.