Looking at Maps

Education Ministress Professor Yuli Tamir wants the "Green Line" map back in the school books (actually there are no "school books" like we used to know in the States, here in Israel, i'ts all private publishers and parents have to buy all the kids' books).

A storm is brewing but actually, I'm not that perturbed. In fact, at the urging of RA, I wrote a letter to Haaretz in Hebrew (if it gets published, I'll put it up at my Hebrew blog and I'll send you there at the time).

I wrote that it's high time the kids, who for almost 40 years don't really know what is this "second state" that Yuli (Peace Now founder) wants us to be a part of when they trumpet the "two state solution", actually see the visual of the borders that cut Jerusdalem in half, are 9 miles from Netanya and much less than that near Kfar Saba. Then they'll realize that this withdrawal business is dangerous and Tamir is being a messianic peacenik at the expense of the lives of Israel's schoolchildren - and their parents.

And for fun, they could show the maps of David's kingdom, and Solomon's and the Hasmonean state. Why not see history?

Why not see the map of Zionist territorial aspirations presented by Chaim Weizmann, the great pacifist and partitionist, to the Peace Conference of 1919 in Paris.

And here it is:-