Outrageous
TTC points us to this outrageous story regarding Google Earth:
Google Earth, which claims to provide “local facts” and “critical tools for understanding a story” about the world, also contains factually incorrect data and biased images relating to Israel and the Middle East.Crazy.
One Israeli settlement is displayed alongside comments implying citizens are stealing water from neighbouring Palestinians, while other images purport to show copies of land confiscation orders as well as plans to extend the security fence into Bethlehem.
And while Google claims that it defines its state borders according to UN regulations, the Gaza Strip is still listed as being under Israeli occupation. However, Israel pulled out of Gaza and handed it to the Palestinian Authority two years ago.
Meanwhile, a posting next to the town of Kiryat Arba says: “Note the well-tended lawns in a region deprived of water.” Clicking on a weblink in the posting brings the user to a site which says “the principal reason for the water shortage is an unfair distribution of water resources shared by Israel and the Palestinians.” It goes on to decry Israel’s policy as both illegal and racist.
Elsewhere, visitors to Google Earth who click on the settlement of Kibbutz Revivim are shown an image of a wrecked C-47 plane. And just outside Jerusalem, a computer generated image, believed to have been taken from a computer game, claims to depict an Israeli missile factory.
posted by orthomom at 8:43 PM
9 Comments:
“Note the well-tended lawns in a region deprived of water.”
LOL! Apartheid rocks!
unreal.
I think there is a problem here in distinguishing between the maps that Google puts up on its website and what other people can add. Anyone can put up additional comments, overlayps, etc. If you take a look at Jerusalem, you'll see that there's an additional overlay there to provide more detail than Google itself does. A user put that up. If people are disturbed by the comments that they consider anti-Israel, they should put up pro-Israel comments. It's not the fault of Google.
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people are disturbed by the comments that they consider anti-Israel, they should put up pro-Israel comments. It's not the fault of Google.
Bingo
Especially since the NK group attended the Iranian holocaust denial conference, acts against Jews have multiplied.
'the Gaza Strip is still listed as being under Israeli occupation'
It is possible that they just haven't gotten around to changing it. What they really should do is define Areas A, B, and C from the Oslo agreements, because that reflects the de facto status quo -- but those lines are incredibly convoluted. And the only relevant borders the UN has "recognized" are (1) the western boundary of the Kingdom of Jordan, (2) the eastern border of Egypt, and (3) the Israel/Lebanon border (which does not put Shaba Farms on the Lebanon side).
“Note the well-tended lawns in a region deprived of water.”
I think watering grassy lawns in an arid area is an environmental toevah.
But it is done in a lot of places in the US as well so I shouldn't complain. (See all the golf courses in the Phoenix area, for example.)
'If people are disturbed by the comments that they consider anti-Israel, they should put up pro-Israel comments. It's not the fault of Google. '
Agreed.
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