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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (41878)	9/4/2002 3:21:39 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 281500

I read the following clip on the "WSJ.Com" site. >>>Your Tax Dollars at Work The Public Broadcasting Service is commemorating the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks by wiping Israel off the map, the New York Sun reports. The Sun's Ira Stoll notes that a Web page accompanying a PBS program called "Caught in the Crossfire: Arab-Americans in Wartime" shows a map of the Middle East on which Israel, Gaza and the West Bank are depicted as one contiguous entity and labeled "Palestine." (The map is actually labeled "Lebanon, Yemen and Palestine [1941-2002]," so it is accurate for the first seven years of that 61-year period, when Palestine was under British control.)<<<<< opinionjournal.com When I went to the PBS site to check this story out, I found this message, instead the Map. >>>[Their Homelands] The purpose of this Web site is to be a companion piece to CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE: Arab Americans in Wartime, a documentary which looks at the lives of three Arab Americans living in New York City following the events of September 11. The "Homelands" section of the site drew attention away from the message of the film. Our goal was to provide background information that contextualized the cultural histories of the people whose lives are chronicled in the film. In an effort to keep the focus on the current experience of Arab Americans, we have removed that section of the site.<<< pbs.org I guess the message is "Whoops, we got caught with our fingers in the cookie jar!" :^)