British Airline Removes Israel from the Map

IsraelNationalNews.com ^ | Avraham Zuroff

[Man50D]

Question: When is the insanity going to end???

It will end when enough people stand up to socialism with the same persistence as the socialists have used over many years. The tea parties are an indication it is starting.

[the scotsman]

‘British airline BMI has apologised after in-flight maps on its London-Tel Aviv service did not identify Israel.

The moving maps marked Islamic holy sites but showed only the city of Haifa in Israel, identified by its Arabic name, Khefa.

Israeli officials accused BMI of trying to “hide the existence of Israel”.

But BMI said it was a technical error - the maps had not been changed since the planes were taken over from a former airline which flew to the Middle East.

“If BMI had any political agenda in order not to anger neighbouring countries, it would not have invested so much in the Tel Aviv line,” AFP news agency quoted a spokesman as saying.

BMED, which was taken over by BMI in 2007, had flown from the UK to many Muslim countries in the Middle East and so the maps had pointed out sites which were relevant to passengers.

A BMI spokesman told the BBC the maps should have been deactivated before the planes were deployed on the new route but “due to a technical error this did not take place”.’

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8029156.stm