Panel slams inclusion of pre-1967 borders in school maps - Haaretz - Israel News

Panel slams inclusion of pre-1967 borders in school maps - Haaretz - Israel News: "The Knesset Education and Culture Committee decided on Monday to summon Education Minister Yuli Tamir to answer questions about her decision to include Israel's pre-1967 border in textbook maps.

During the session, Kadima party and right-wing MKs lashed out at Tamir for her decision made two weeks ago to include the so-called Green Line border which excludes the West Bank, Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights from Israel.

National Religious Party Chairman MK Zevulun Orlev presented the committee with the 1967 Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee decision to remove the Green line -as well as the pre-1948 British Mandate border- from all but historical maps.

'Tamir's decision is blatantly political,' Orlev said. 'It has no educational, instructive or scientific basis. As far back as 1967 the government decided that the Green Line had ceased to exist.'" Read complete post here.