Much has been made of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s infamous quote: “Israel must be wiped off the map.” Maybe he knew of this Chinese-made globe?
Yes, this globe now found at Target stores, has literally 'wiped Israel of the map'. It is not there. Instead, "Palestine" is printed over the area.
“They’re teaching kids there is no Israel, only Palestine,” Rabbi Gary Moskowitz, who bought a globe for his daughter, told Andrea Peyser of the New York Post. “This foments hatred.”
Amy Reilly of Target customer relations initially said the omission of Israel was due to lack of space on the globe. To which Peyser responded: “Isn’t ‘Palestine’ a longer word?”
What a lame excuse. I am tired of stupid arguments a 3-year-old child could see through.
Anyway, only after getting complaints, Target began pulling the globe from its 1,744 stores.
A spokesman for New Jersey-based Devrian Global Industries, which imported tens of thousands of globes from China, said: “Obviously, it was a mistake. We obviously offended some people.”
Apparently not. What a disgrace indeed, to give a platform to those like Ahmadinejad.
NETANYAHU: But to those who gave this Holocaust denier a hearing, I say on behalf of my people, the Jewish people, and decent people everywhere, have you no shame? Have you no decency? A mere six decades after the Holocaust, you give legitimacy to a man who denies the murder of six million Jews while promising to wipe out the state of Israel, the state of the Jews? What a disgrace.
When President Obama first met the Saudi royals, he seemed to bow at the waist. Heck, he was kissing the ring!! OK, maybe he confused him with the Pope. While the spinmeisters were trying to make us not believe our own eyes, this week should be interesting while Obama bows and shuffles to the Muslims…. while smacking Israel in the face!
Visiting the Middle East and not going to Israel would be like touring North America and omitted a stop in the United States. It only makes sense if you interpret it as a deliberate slap in the f ace of Jerusalem and a statement to the Arab world that America’s pro-Israeli policy is changing. DickMorris.com
Now hear these terms imposed by the Saudis — and accepted by Obama — reporters can only cover the actual meetings but cannot visit or report on anything else in that country. Muzzling the press? Certainly no freedom of the press, but then why is everyone agreeing so happily to these outlandish rules? We can only hope some will push their bounds and see what the Saudi gov’t does.
And since when would an American president permit this shackling of the media and still proceed with the diplomatic visit without a murmur of protest?
Since when? Since Obama became president determined to appease Iran, Saudi Arabia, the Palestinian Authority, Hamas, and all of the extremists while slighting Israel and turning his back on democracy.
Obama is outraged at those horrible Israeli settlements. They have to go! They are the major threat to Mid-East peace! Not the Iranian development of nuclear weapons or its subsidization of Hamas and Hezbollah or the Saudi royal subsidies for these terror organizations or welfare payments to the families of suicide bombers. No, it’s those damn settlements. DickMorris.com
Much has been made of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s infamous quote: “Israel must be wiped off the map.” Maybe he knew of this Chinese-made globe?
