Posted: February-14-2010 at 5:22am | IP Logged	Tweet

Much has been made of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s infamous quote: “Israel must be wiped off the map.”

That objective has already been accomplished, according to a Chinese-made toy globe that went on sale at Target stores across the U.S.

On the spot where Israel should be, the word “Palestine” is printed instead.

“They’re teaching kids there is no Israel, only Palestine,” Rabbi Gary Moskowitz, who bought a globe for his daughter, told Andrea Peyser of the New York Post. “This foments hatred.”

Amy Reilly of Target customer relations initially said the omission of Israel was due to lack of space on the globe. To which Peyser responded: “Isn’t ‘Palestine’ a longer word?”

After receiving complaints, Target began pulling the globe from its 1,744 stores.

A spokesman for New Jersey-based Devrian Global Industries, which imported tens of thousands of globes from China, said: “Obviously, it was a mistake. We obviously offended some people.”

(The New York Post)