[Lazamataz]

Actually, the name is merely wrong. They misnamed it Med Sea.

No, seriously, I'm a RZB (Rotten Zionist Bastard) and I don't see a big problem here. There wasn't the room nor was Israel the focus of the map. More an oversight than a slight, I'd wager.

[adam_az]

In all of the other maps, they go out of their way to show the country name. They MADE room for Bahrain and Qatar, and made room for a sliver of Egypt.They had room for Lebanon which is a smaller country. They could have written it across the Sinai... ;)

Seriously, look at the other maps of other countries and you will see they go out of their way to label countries in every other map.

[mathluv]

I don't agree. They found room to identify Lebanon - smaller area on the map.

[Fabozz]

"There wasn't the room nor was Israel the focus of the map. More an oversight than a slight, I'd wager."

That State Department map is a copy of this CIA World Factbook map:

Notice, however, that the CIA map labels Israel, whereas the State Dept. map was specifically edited to remove that name. Maybe it was a slight, or maybe State thinks that it's more important to tell people that Jordan is on the Mediterranean rather than that Israel is near Saudi Arabia. Regardless, "oversight" isn't an option.