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JNF on why blue box has no green line: ‘This doesn’t say this is a map of Israel’

The Jewish National Fund blue box
The Jewish National Fund blue box

Forward writer Josh Nathan-Kazis follows up on our post from last week on the fact that the iconic Jewish National Fund blue box fails to show the green line on its map of Israel:

Asked about this, a spokeswoman for JNF denied in an interview with the Forward that the maps on the boxes are maps of Israel. “This doesn’t say this is a map of Israel,” said Neta Yoffe, JNF’s director of communications. “This is a blue box… Nowhere do we talk about it being a map of Israel. We just focus on the wonderful work that we do for the country.”

Yoffe said that the map was a representation of where the JNF’s projects were located. “It kind of shows the area we focus on,” Yoffe said. “Our projects are not in the United States. You’re not going to see a region in the U.S. You’re going to see where our projects are based.”

The JNF does work on both sides of the Green Line, according to Yoffe. Yoffe said that JNF projects in the West Bank were limited to areas of what the JNF calls “national consensus.” The JNF has planted a forest near the West Bank settlement of Maaleh Adumim in cooperation with the right-wing Zionist Organization of America.

Yoffe would not say whether the lack of a Green Line on the blue boxes signified opposition on the part of the JNF to a two-state solution. “I’m not going to get into a political discussion with you,” Yoffe said.

Oh, so it’s not a map of Israel. That explains it. It just “kind of” shows the area they focus on.

Moving on, here’s another interesting tidbit:

The JNF’s blue boxes have long been used as a propaganda tool. In a 2003 article in the academic journal “Israel Studies,” Haifa University professor Yoram Bar-Gal reported that the first blue boxes to include maps in their design, produced in 1934, depicted a borderless area that reached from the Mediterranean into Lebanon and Jordan.

Bar-Gal wrote that the map’s expansive claim was presented on the box in order to “transmit a political message, to which not only adults were exposed, but also the millions of children in the Hebrew educational system, who contributed their coins at special fundraising ceremonies.”

I guess that “borderless area that reached from the Mediterranean into Lebanon and Jordan” just kind of showed the area they hoped to focus on.

You can read the full article here.

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It’s kind of hard to ignore the facts. But these people have been relying on denial of truth working for so long that it’s the reflex position. That’s not a map on the can. It certainly is not a map of Israel. It’s just a random assemblage of lines and the text on the can…direct link to the land of Israel doesn’t relate to the non map lines on the can….see?

Well, since it is not a map of anything — certainly not of Israel, nor yet of land that Israel claims as its own — this quasi-map (or mere picture) cannot reassure JORDAN and SYRIA and LEBANON that the Zionist Entity does not (any longer) claim their land (or oparts thereof) as part of Israel (or part of a someday-Israel, a greater-Israel, or any other-Israel).

No. No reassurance here. It is not a map, just a picture. And not an official Israeli picture, either, but merely a picture on a BlueBox from an organization without official ties to the State of Israel (or mumble, mumble — something, whatever).

>> Oh, so it’s not a map of Israel. That explains it.

It’s not a map of Israel, it’s a map of the “Land of Israel” – which is to say, the geographic region of the Levant coveted by Zio-supremacist Jews.

“I’m not going to get into a political discussion with you.” – Yoffe

Yea because this isn’t political right? LOL

The Holy Land Fund is shutdown and people thrown in jail, yet these Jewish nationalists continue to support Israeli apartheid, colonialism, Jewish supremacy, etc.

It just goes to show how terrorism is acceptable when it is ‘our’ terrorism. The Zionist terrorist enterprise is mainstream and benign.

True story.
A few years ago, I as debating this point with an Israeli friend in the U.S. I said: the JNF plants trees on both sides of the Green Line. He said: no. His wife was in the next room on the phone with her brother. Her brother lives on (an extreme rightwing) settlement on the West Bank. She called out to us: hold on, let me ask my brother. Her settler brother’s answer: I’m in my living room and I’m looking through the window at a JNF sign in front of a bunch of trees right now.