CNN wipes Israel off the map

inn ^ | 11/25/15 | Cynthia Blank

[Nachum]

Where is Israel?

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CNN sparked outrage this week after posting a news article on its website in which Israel was literally wiped off the map. 

The article, titled, "Beyond ISIS: 2016's scariest geopolitical hot spots," featured a graphic of the Middle East in which Israel is replaced with a red square marking the country of "Palestina."

According to HonestReporting, the picture, using a Spanish or Portuguese translation of "Palestine," was taken from Getty Images and not created by CNN's graphics team. 

Commenters to the site were quick to lambast CNN, asserting Israel would likely still be in existence next year.

HonestReporting Managing Editor Simon Ploske, meanwhile, slammed the news network's "illustration of the Middle East without Israel" as "completely unacceptable."

[SE Mom]

Wait. So ISIS shows a map of leaders they see as enemies and the president isn’t on the list? Do I understand that correctly?

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[HiTech RedNeck]

Is even present day Saudi Arabia that blind? (They used to have the same attitude back in Jimmy Carter’s day.)

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[Ax]

We were stationed in Jeddah in the early 80s. My late wife was working as a TA at the local dependents school. She received a box from a map-maker which contained an inflatable globe. She tried to blow it up in the conventional manner to no avail. She examined the globe and found that a Saudi customs official had taken his X-acto knife and cut out Israel. At the same time, both English-language dailies referred to Israel as “the Zionist Entity.”

[captmar-vell]

“Rejoice not you, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote you is broken: for out of the serpent’s root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.” Isaiah 14:29

[Eleutheria5]

What? Again?