I had a link to the actual map over there - but it was a direct link and it's now gone. All that's there now is an "Under Construction" banner. I was able to find the new map. Here it is (direct link again) and you still can't see Israel:
Posted on 08/14/2002 7:14:06 AM PDT by It'salmosttolate
(Ooops! )BMW to correct Web site omitting Israel
By MICHAEL FREUND
In response to a flurry of protests, BMW has agreed to correct its Middle East division's Web site, which showed "Palestine" in place of Israel, a company spokesman told The Jerusalem Post.
Rob Mitchell, the BMW Group's North American director of corporate communications, said on Friday the company had received "quite a number" of calls from people objecting to the omission of Israel from a map on the Internet indicating the location of BMW dealers in the Middle East.
"The minute we got the calls, we contacted our colleagues over there," said Mitchell, referring to the company's Middle East division. "They removed the link and are working to correct the site."
BMW also issued a press release stating, "BMW Group regrets having published this map on one of its Internet sites. Obviously there have been faults in designing and programming this site. We are working on correcting these faults as soon as possible.
"As a car manufacturer, we are not involved in Middle East politics, do not support any of the given political attitudes, and did not aim to make any kind of political statement."
This is not the first time that BMW has been the object of criticism from Israel and world Jewry.
In August 1998, a class-action suit was filed against the company in New York regarding its use of Jewish slave-labor during the Holocaust. BMW later agreed to take part in a German compensation fund in exchange for protection from lawsuits in the US
It's almost as if they sat down and tried to come up with the stupidest thing a German car company could possibly do.
BMW still has the Orginal design of the company WAR Emblem
The current BMW logo, introduced in 1920, was based on the circular design of an aircraft propeller
So then I assume the "Orginal" is not a mistake?
Um, I don't want to be rude or anything, but Israel is spelled :
I-s-r-ae-l
not
I-s-r-ea-l
I had a link to the actual map over there - but it was a direct link and it's now gone. All that's there now is an "Under Construction" banner. I was able to find the new map. Here it is (direct link again) and you still can't see Israel:
Maybe it's part of some dumb diversity requirement. Perhaps a "Palestinian" is working in that department, and that's how his school always taught him the map of the middle east is.
"Palestinian" maps in "Palestinian" textbooks do not show Israel and "Palestine" living in peace and harmony on one map. They show a newly invented country called "Palestine" and do not mention the historic nation of Israel.
Shalom.
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