Ha! Ha! Are you trying to tell us that the Arabs don't have maps in their school books which have removed Israel completely? Maps don't lie? If the maps the Arab children are using in their school studies do not have Israel on them, somebody is lying! What color is your sky, Louie?
HarperCollins omits Israel from maps for Mideast schools, citing ‘local preferences’
Where's Israel? (Courtesy of the Tablet)
HarperCollins omits Israel from maps for Mideast schools, citing ‘local preferences’
For months, publishing giant HarperCollins has been
selling an atlas it says was “developed specifically for schools in the Middle East.” It trumpets the work as providing students an “in-depth coverage of the region and its issues.” Its stated goals include helping kids understand the “relationship between the social and physical environment, the region’s challenges [and] its socio-economic development.”
Nice goals. But there’s one problem: Israel is missing.
There’s Syria. There’s Jordan. There’s Gaza. But no mention of Israel. The story was first
reported by a Catholic publication, the Tablet.
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Then there is this story..........
Articles: Erasing Israel from the Map
The denial of Israel's right to exist by erasing it from maps is a regular component of Palestinian children's schoolbooks. In September 2011 the official PA map of "Palestine" featured the
PA areas and all of Israel (excluding the Golan Heights) wrapped in the Palestinian flag.
In 2009 the British airline, BMI "
removed Israel from the electronic maps displayed to passengers in some of its planes." This was done to avoid offending Muslim passengers. Israel "does not appear in maps on BMI flights between London and Tel Aviv, and Khefa, the pre-independence Arabic name for Haifa, appears on the maps." A spokesman explained that BMI makes "every effort to take passengers' sensitivities into account through an apolitical policy."
In November 2012, activists with links to the
Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas came together for an American Muslims for Palestine's (AMP) Conference for Palestine in the U.S.: A Movement United. The AMP "home page depicts the conference logo-
a map of Palestine made from birds showing the Palestinian state encompassing all of Israel."
Also in November 2012, Flickr, a social photo hosting service, "decided to remove the maps of Israel from its site." Flickr was contacted to determine whether this was a technical glitch, but it was discovered that
Flickr map services are actually powered by Nokia Maps which "also has Israel as completely blank." In response to requests about the deletion of Israel as well as Cyprus, the following statement was made
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...........and so in response to Louie's "Maps don't lie" statement I'll respond to Do Maps lie with .......do birds fly?