Map quest: Where's Israel?

(Image by Ling.Nut)

They say that seeing is believing - but for some diehard believers, not seeing is better yet.

Because some customers in the Persian Gulf are hostile toward Israel, famed British publisher Harper Collins simply omitted the Jewish nation from many a map.  

How's this working out?

Newsmax reports that although Harper Collins tried defending its actions by stating that “local preferences” had to be considered, public outcry has deemed otherwise.

After a Catholic international publication called The Tablet first broke this news, the opposition was intense.  Harper Collins therefore decided to remove “the [said] atlas from all territories.”

Here's an example of an Amazon reviewer’s comment about the atlas (which is still being sold         by third parties):  I find it absolutely ridiculous that the publishers at Harper Collins would intentionally leave an entire nation off of their atlas in order to appease the backward views of    their customer base.  This is not education, this is furtherance of generations of intolerance and hate…

Resources

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/HarperCollins-atlas-Israel/2015/01/02/id/616045/

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