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JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: BORDER PATROL. Gershom Gorenberg writes about the Israeli education minister's controversial new proposal to include the Green Line border in school textbook maps.
For nearly 40 years, Israel has treated its own border the way Victorians treated sex: It shapes society, but explicitly portraying it violates respectable conventions. Those who do so are seen as daring, not quite part of polite society. Bright children know the border exists from adult conversations, know it will be terribly important when they come of age, and are not quite sure what it looks like. My daughter, child of an impolite father, asked her high school geography teacher why the Green Line was missing from a map he handed out, and left him wordless.Read the whole thing.
--The Editors
