PALESTINE IS GONE AGAIN

Anyone remember what we were all blogging about on May 22nd 2009? Well, if you can't remember then no worries, because today, May 10th 2010, almost one year later we are experiencing a "Deja-vu" moment once again with Israel. Here's why:

LINK MAY 22, 2009-


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 map shows Israel, the West Bank, Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights in the same striking yellow colour

Oren Drori, Head of Marketing Administration for the Israeli Ministry of Tourism, described the adverts as a "professional mistake" with no geopolitical intentions

Oh a "Professional Mistake" is the cause of the evilness. Not so fast:

MAY 10, 2010-LINK


Israel's tourism ministry is wiping Palestinians off the map

A look at Israel's latest tourism drivesupplies a strong answer.
Tourism Minister Stas Misezhnikov is an MK for the radical rightwing Yisrael Beiteinu party, led by Foreign Minister Avigdor Leiberman. Under his extremist leadership, the ministry has completely wiped the West Bank and any Palestinian areas from its materials. Mandatory Palestine is portrayed without any borders or demarcations. All maps used in the campaign (available online at www.goisrael.com) omit Palestinian areas and towns

Liars the lot of them....

Israel Does Britney Spears~Badly

Israel, taking its cue from the queen of Pops best song, has now admitted it did a very bad thing in London when it created adverts for tourism in Israel where it wiped Palestine off the entire map. Yup, Ooops it did it again, and again.......

Oops!...I did it again to your heart
Got lost in this game, oh baby
Oops!...You think that I'm sent from above
I'm not that innocent

Sorry couldn't resist the comic value there:)

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. (Zionist Asshats!!)

The ministry said that in general, maps should not be used on billboards. (Well maybe they should take their own advice, ya think?)

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.

The map shows Israel, the West Bank, Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights in the same striking yellow colour; the faintest of white lines mark out the Palestinian territories - though not the Syrian one which Israel annexed in 1981.

Insufficient vetting

Israel occupied the three Arab territories, including East Jerusalem, during the 1967 war. It has since cemented its hold by settling hundreds of thousands of its citizens there.

Oren Drori, Head of Marketing Administration for the Israeli Ministry of Tourism, described the adverts as a "professional mistake" with no geopolitical intentions. (Yeah, the same kind of "professional mistake" they made killing all those children in Gaza)

He said he did not think maps should be used on billboards to advertise tourism in any country and the adverts had not been sufficiently vetted. (dumbshits!)

"We are not tearing anything down," he said. But the ministry had decided to "fast-forward" to the next set of posters scheduled in the campaign, after learning that there was "a bit of a harsh response" to the map advert, he said. (ROTFLMAO)

No more map adverts would be posted, he said, and existing ones would be removed as they reached the end of their scheduled display times over the next two weeks, he said.

The Syrian Embassy in London, which had lodged its own protest, described the advert as "offensive". (Yup Israel excels at being offensive)

The fate of the Golan Heights is key to any peace negotiations between Israel and Syria. source