Seem like when they made this globe all was well except for one small detail, Israel was not on the globe. In it's place was the word Palestine. You know, the place of the poor Palestinian people who did not really exist until Yasser Arafat stole the name for his tribe of misplaced mussies. Target has been pulling these toy globes out of their stores. How many kids now think that Israel does not really exist. They were made in China but I wonder if they were not really made in Gazastan or Iran.
Israel wiped off the map? No, hold on it was not Iran.
New York Post
Andrea Peyser
Bob Kunst learned of the globe's omission when a friend's 12-year-old daughter in Florida asked innocently, "Where's Israel?"
"The very people who deny Israel's existence also deny the Holocaust," he said.
After receiving complaints, Target, which sold the globes for several weeks, finally responded. On Sunday, it began yanking the globes from its 1,744 stores in 49 states (Vermont is Target-free), and destroying them. We hope.
"We didn't want to offend any of our guests," said Amy Reilly of Target customer relations, who initially said the omission of Israel was due to lack of space on the item. (Isn't "Palestine" a longer word?)
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