Which Way is Israel? – A Follow-up
Jerry I’m telling you I have this power. And I have no control over it.
– - Cosmo Kramer – Seinfeld – s05e11
Just two days ago I blogged about the mixed messages sent by Agritech, Israel’s agricultural exhibition, in their full page ads which had both an inviting slogan (The world arrives in Israel! Israel awaits the world!) and a deterring world map featuring relocated countries and arrows pointing every which way.
Well, it only took one phone call to event organizer Atar Krauss (as suggested by a reader of mine) to produce some results. In today’s Maariv newspaper the new ad is partly fixed: the countries are still playing musical chairs (except for Korea, circled in yellow by me, which was moved back), but at least the arrows are pointing to Israel, helping the world arrive there:
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04 May 2009 at 7:04 pm Permalink
Yet another observation one can make is that as far as I know texas is not yet an independent country as the other ones are….