Nonsense?TEL AVIV – An Israeli town is suing Internet giant Google after surprised municipal officials discovered Google Earth, the popular, user-driven satellite map, labels their city as stolen Palestinian land.
"[The label] is simply complete nonsense," Yossi Ben-Artzi, a history professor at Israel's Haifa University told Yediot Ahronot, Israel's leading daily. "Kiryat Yam was built on sand dunes, and there wasn't any Palestinian village in the area. The lands were bought in 1939 by the Gav Yam construction company.
Zionists love to refer to pre 1948 Palestine as the mythic "land without people for a people without land", but, as of 1919, the area was already home to 700,000 Palestinians, many with roots reaching back over 1,200 years, since the area had been Arabic since the seventh century A.D.
So, village or no village, the professor ignores the minor detail that those "empty sand dunes" that Kiryat Yam was built on was fact Arabian property for the previous 1,200 years, property handed over to the Jews by the United Nations in 1948 when it created the "new" state of Israel.
It would seem that Google Earth considers the United Nations act of confiscating Arabian property with it's U. N. Resolution 181 and giving it to the Jews as... stealing.
Not a hard concept to understand.
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You might be interested to know that "land without people for a people without a land" is a bogus quote.
Google it and see.
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