UPDATE: Thanks to Elder of Ziyon for figuring out a way to copy the above map. Some of you have said that the link below isn’t working, so if you want to see the above online, go here.
As David Axelrod might put it, this is an insult and an affront. Visit the online route map of EgyptAir, the airline owned by the same state which signed an historic peace agreement with Israel in 1979, and you will see, once you click on the “Middle East & Gulf” section, that Israel has, well, disappeared.
The area between the Mediterranean Sea and the River Jordan has been divided down the middle - shades of a “Greater Syria” fantasy here, now that I think about it - and Amman appears to have moved several hundred miles to the west. No Tel Aviv, no Eilat, no Haifa. It’s like they never existed.
Perhaps that’s the point. Meanwhile, I wonder what impact this alternative vision of the Middle East will have on relations between Egypt and the country that provides it with around $2bn annually in assistance.
You are absolutely correct - this map could have been drawn by Ahmadinejad himself! I could not reach the map directly from the link shown above, but if you go to this URL and follow the directions you will find it:
http://egyptair.com/English/Pages/Wherewefly.aspx
Then click on “View Our Route Map” and click on “Middle East & Gulf”. I can’t tell you how accurate the rest of their maps are, but if they use these for navigation, the passengers are in for one dangerous ride!
there’s so little about the map that is actually right. pretty much ALL the borders and cities are in the wrong place.
they’ve even managed to make egypt smaller (!) by giving a bit of the sinai to a shape i can only assume to be israel
i wouldn’t agree that israel has disappeared from the map tho, it’s just been drawn completely wrong and doesn’t have any of its own cities marked (altho amman bizarrely appears inside it)
Naomi, it is a badly drawn map, but all the national borders you see here, with the exception of Israel - Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, part of Saudi Arabia and part of Iraq - correspond to a proper geopolitical map like this one (http://www.mapsofworld.com/images/middle-east-map.jpg).
ben, lebanon’s border with syria is also wrong and a new non-existent border between lebanon and turkey has been invented
naomi, so which bit is israel? that sliver in the south where amman has been relocated? i really don’t think you can put this down to lousy draughtsmanship!
yes, i’m assuming that bit is israel! otherwise what else is it? jordan is too its east
i think the whole map is too mad to make any meaningful analysis out of (other than the omission of the NAMES of israeli cities)
eg, damascus is a bit to the east of beirut in reality, but here it’s been placed in lebanon and beirut has been pushed far to the north
I think Naomi’s right. Even the location of Alexandria is off — on an Egyptian map. You have to hope EgyptAir’s pilots and mechanics are better educated than their cartographers.
On the positive side, if the same people are supplying maps to the Egyptian military, Israel should be safe from invasion.
The names of Israeli cities are not shown because the map shows only cities that this airline flies to.
Ron Newman, did muslim war criminal sadaam hussein of iraq ever have WMDs? If your memory/education fails you, try googling “Halabja Kurds”.
Hmmm. Jerusalem is not on EgyptAirs map. Apparently the claim that Jerusalem is the “farthest mosque”, “the third holiest site” in Islam is false.
Mecca is not on the map either — because it is also a city that EgyptAir does not fly to.
Another good reason to love Egypt Air …. Yes in Egypt we don’t recognize Israel as state, it’s the occupied land of Palestine … by the way I’m Egyptian …. And we have and will always have one enemy ….. it will always be like that … and for the American Aid ,, please ask your government to stop sending any .. because they know and every Egyptian knows that the only reason they send it is to make sure the current Egyptian government control Egypt the .. the government the betrayed Egypt ,,, take a tour to any Egyptian city and ask any one they I’ll tell you the same … …