El Al returns Israel to the 1949 armistice lines
El Al, Israel's national airline, is distributing a brochure to Russian-speaking tourists which features a map that returns Israel to the 1949 armistice lines The brochure is distributed to tourists from Russia, and shows the areas of Judea, Samaria, and the Golan, liberated in the 1967 Six-Day War, as outside the borders of the country.Huh? If El Al is distributing it, how is it not 'an official El Al brochure'? And what are Israel's 'official borders'? If you go by what we have annexed (which would be the least Israel's partially government-owned national carrier would be expected to do), it should at least include all of the Golan Heights and all of Jerusalem.
The brochure has caused much distress among many tourists and Israelis who have seen it, with several attributing the map to a political stance on the part of the company, something that many Israelis in the center and right of the political spectrum say they are very uncomfortable with. A blogger (“Skopia”) from the Rotter.net site contact Arutz Sheva and posted photos of the map on Facebook and other forums, which generated many negative comments about El Al in a number of internet forums, and on the El Al Facebook page.
Arutz Sheva contacted El Al on Wednesday, seeking an explanation for the map's presence in the brochure. A spokesperson for the company said they would investigate, and some time later, a message appeared on El Al's Facebook page with an explanation: “We wish to clarify regarding the photos that all official El Al maps show Israel in its 'official' borders. An initial investigation into this incident indicates that the brochure is not an official El Al brochure, and it is not distributed as such. We will continue to investigate the issue.”
Hmmm.
Labels: 1949 armistice lines, El Al
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:07 AM
3 Comments:
im glad to fly continental
When I first saw this I felt sick. Still can't read the post.
Two left wings.
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