FWD: A little geography problem

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>  Ah Haaretz.  The "New York Times" of Israel, as it likes to call
> itself.  (More properly, the PRAVDA of Israel.)   The "thinking person's"
> newspaper.
>
>    Well, the "Thinking Person's Newspaper" has a little geography problem.
> It has started printing maps of parts of the United States with all of the
> directions reversed.  It runs a map of Florida today in which the Florida
> panhandle goes out EAST into the Atlantic and where Key West is, well,
> east.  (feb 11)
>    The problem seems to be that the map shows West Palm Beach.   West Palm
> Beach - yep, the place where pregnant chads were invented -  is of course
> maybe a mile from the EASTERN shore of Florida, even if it is light years
> away from political sensibility.  But the Haaretz team decided that West
> Palm Beach must be on the WEST shore of Florida, facing Texas.   Better
> yet, it has a map of California as well, with San Francisco bay lying on
> the EAST coastline of the state, giving Nevada an oceanside position I
> guess.  (There is a classic country-western song about some Ocesnside
> Property in Arizona that I suspect someone at Haaretz listened to.)
>    I guess there is not much you can expect from a newspaper that thinks
> that geographically speaking the Land of Israel is just eastern Palestine.



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