<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Just a smart way to change history, they are doing this for years with no complains. How about the <span style="text-decoration: underline; font-style: italic;">Golan Heights</span> that belongs to Syria and they show as Israeli land?<br>
They should say OCCUPATION and Israel is not complying with <br> UN resolution 242 since 1967 .<br>?????<br><br>--- On <b>Sat, 1/23/10, Carlos A. Afonso <i><ca@cafonso.ca></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Carlos A. Afonso <ca@cafonso.ca><br>Subject: Re: [governance] And yet Google again: Online petition against GoogleMaps<br>To: governance@lists.cpsr.org, "Rui Correia" <correia.rui@gmail.com><br>Date: Saturday, January 23, 2010, 5:55 AM<br><br><div class="plainMail">Strange... for us here in BR it had always been the Persian Gulf, and<br>continues to be so. How did this change happen?<br><br>--c.a.<br><br>Rui Correia wrote:<br>> One thing is for sure: good or bad, Google is getting more than its fair<br>> share of publicity!<br>> <br>> We, the undersigned, through this letter, protest your irresponsible,<br>>
unscientific actions, and demand an immediate and unconditional deletion<br>> of “Arabian Gulf” from Google Earth.<br>> <br>> Arbitrarily designating the Persian Gulf as the Arabian Gulf is an<br>> irresponsible violation of all historical and International standards<br>> and would undermine the integrity of Google Earth.<br>> <br>> 1.197.422 signatures<br>> <br>> <a href="http://www.petitiononline.com/sos02082/petition.html" target="_blank">http://www.petitiononline.com/sos02082/petition.html</a><br>> <a href="http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?sos02082" target="_blank">http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?sos02082</a><br>> <br>> You can read about the naming dispute here:<br>> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Gulf_naming_dispute" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Gulf_naming_dispute</a><br>> <br>> Regards,<br>> <br>> Rui<br>> <br>>
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