{"id":6615,"date":"2017-08-24T04:27:55","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T04:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/?p=6615"},"modified":"2017-08-24T04:28:42","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T04:28:42","slug":"australias-national-news-service-has-defended-a-map-it-displayed-showing-palestine-instead-of-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/2017\/08\/24\/australias-national-news-service-has-defended-a-map-it-displayed-showing-palestine-instead-of-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s national news service has defended a map it displayed showing \u201cPalestine\u201d instead of Israel."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Australia\u2019s ABC News last Thursday screened a graphic on television displaying\u00a0a map of the Middle East that included\u00a0\u201cPalestine\u201d instead of Israel.Avi Yemini, a local Jewish leader, noticed the omission and posted it on his Facebook page, accusing the broadcaster of deliberately<a href=\"https:\/\/unitedwithisrael.org\/popular-childrens-publisher-wipes-israel-off-the-map\/\"> wiping Israel off the map<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2018\u201dLast night ABC wiped Israel off their map. They\u2019re literally <a href=\"https:\/\/unitedwithisrael.org\/watch-iran-again-threatens-to-wipe-out-israel\/\">doing the Islamists dirty work<\/a> for them,\u201d he wrote on his Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">ABC News Australia this week denied the accusation, saying\u00a0the graphic pertained to a news item discussing which countries in the region had repealed\u00a0laws allowing rapists to escape punishment if they married their victims.<\/p>\n<div class=\"a-single a-102\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201dThe map showed countries where this law had already been repealed (in blue) and countries where campaigners were actively trying to have it repealed (in yellow),\u201d ABC stated, according to the UK\u2019s <em>Daily Mail<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The channel further claimed that such a law has never existed in Israel, and therefore the Jewish state was not shown on the map.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">ABC further claimed that the inclusion of Israel on such a map \u201cmight have attracted more warranted criticism\u2026 the story had nothing at all to do with it [Israel].\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is of significance to note that <a href=\"https:\/\/unitedwithisrael.org\/watch-old-maps-prove-jewish-connection-to-the-land-of-israel\/\">\u201cPalestine\u201d does not exist<\/a>. Also, \u201cPalestine\u201d and Lebanon were colored black on the map\u00a0\u2013 not blue nor yellow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yemini told the <em>Daily Mail<\/em> that Israel\u2019s exclusion was \u201cto appeal to the Jew-hating crowd. \u201c<\/p>\n<div class=\"a-single a-102\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe time has come for the ABC to stop its constant attacks on one of our closest allies and the only real democracy in the Middle East,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said that this was \u201cyet another great example\u201d of why ABC News should be defunded, as it has \u201cbecome an international embarrassment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>By: United with Israel Staff<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia\u2019s ABC News last Thursday screened a graphic on television displaying\u00a0a map of the Middle East that included\u00a0\u201cPalestine\u201d instead of Israel.Avi Yemini, a local Jewish leader, noticed the omission and posted it on his Facebook page, accusing the broadcaster of deliberately wiping Israel off the map.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-politics","category-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6617,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6615\/revisions\/6617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}