The Israel Government Tourism Office is withdrawing a series of posters displayed in London Underground stations featuring a map that treats the occupied territories as part of Israel, after the advertisements were referred to the Advertising Standards Authority.
The yellow map makes no distinction between Israel and the Golan Heights, the West Bank and Gaza.
The Guardian UK
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ReplyDelete"The Israeli newspaper Haaretz, apparently known for its moderation and outspoken Israeli journalist critics, on behalf of the Palestinians, such as Amira Hass and Akiva Eldar, has a map of Israel, and solely of Israel, in its Travel Section, making no distinctions as to the Palestinian Occupied Territories and the Occupied Syrian Golan Heights.
Are they naive and trying to fool themselves that they can simply normalize the situation in such a manner?
Is it not inflammatory and a humiliation to the 5.5 million Palestinians - half the total population of Israel and Palestine - that they do not exist according to this map? Is this not shameless self-righteous arrogance that they can simply impose their own 'invented' colonialist geography, riding rough shod over their enforced subdued occupied subjects?
How does Syria feel when it sees its Golan Heights territory colonized with more Jewish settlers every year, with Israel treating the territory as merely another region of its state?"
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Are they naive and trying to fool themselves that they can simply normalize the situation in such a manner?
Is it not inflammatory and a humiliation to the 5.5 million Palestinians - half the total population of Israel and Palestine - that they do not exist according to this map? Is this not shameless self-righteous arrogance that they can simply impose their own 'invented' colonialist geography, riding rough shod over their enforced subdued occupied subjects?
How does Syria feel when it sees its Golan Heights territory colonized with more Jewish settlers every year, with Israel treating the territory as merely another region of its state?"
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"The Israeli newspaper Haaretz, apparently known for its moderation and outspoken Israeli journalist critics, on behalf of the Palestinians, such as Amira Hass and Akiva Eldar, has a map of Israel, and solely of Israel, in its Travel Section, making no distinctions as to the Palestinian Occupied Territories and the Occupied Syrian Golan Heights.
ReplyDeleteAre they naive and trying to fool themselves that they can simply normalize the situation in such a manner?
Is it not inflammatory and a humiliation to the 5.5 million Palestinians - half the total population of Israel and Palestine - that they do not exist according to this map? Is this not shameless self-righteous arrogance that they can simply impose their own 'invented' colonialist geography, riding rough shod over their enforced subdued occupied subjects?
How does Syria feel when it sees its Golan Heights territory colonized with more Jewish settlers every year, with Israel treating the territory as merely another region of its state?"
Wiping the Palestinians off the map:
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ReplyDeleteI like it , pity it's painful to watch.
I know. I'm going to make it a post post it tonight.
ReplyDeleteI know. I'm going to make it a post tonight.
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