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I have learned to demand a very high standard of evidence for conspiracy theories, so...let's see the evidence that there is some conspiracy between Google and Israel to hide what is happening there. For that matter, I am not even sure what you think Israel is hiding -- Netanyahu is not at all shy about settlements, the IDF calls people up to tell them when a bomb is going to be dropped on their building, and there are reporters and international observers all over the Israel and the Palestinian territories.

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We don't have any evidence.

We do know that Israel has launched 1000 to 1500 missiles up until 10 pm pacific time.

Netanyahu has been blatant over taking back "theiir" land lately.

Netanyahu is in a very close political race.

I won't say what I thinking though out of respect for the rules.

They are hiding the scale of it. Destroyed houses, trees, farms in Palestine. It is a map, it shows the scale immediately

I'm not sure about the immediate part. My area only updates every few years on Google maps, they don't exactly provide real-time data (and never meant to)

The article makes this very clear. There is no google-israel conspiracy. The limits on satelite resolution were dictated by the US government.

And the US government is dictated by a Israel-first policy. At least in view of the UNSC vetoes [0] and the weapons it supplies.

[0] https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/43-times-us-has-used-veto...

The idea that a country might pass internal laws specifically to favour a foreign country is incredible, and gives the measure of how much the US is subservient to Israel's interests.

Beside the bipartisan powers-that-be in the US government, the media landscape is obsequious and willing participant too; see 'peace propaganda and the promised land (2004)' [0]. For instance, it didn't make it to the Paper of Record's newsworthiness that the NSA shares, per the Snowden revelations, US citizen's data with Israel [1][2]; to their credit, though, they lightly lament at occasionally getting used as an accessory to the war machine, outside the traditional route [3].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-2tEmqM1_E

[1] https://www.haaretz.com/report-nsa-sharing-u-s-citizens-data... It is hard to miss how the Israeli newspaper Haaretz is a lot more no-nonsense in tone and coverage than, say, the NYT.

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/11/nsa-americans-...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/14/world/middleeast/israel-g...

I have learned to demand a very high standard of evidence for conspiracy theories,

Not a conspiracy theory at all - but rather a very sensible inference based on how state actors behave in the modern age.

I am not even sure what you think Israel is hiding

Blurry images make it much harder to assess, and verify the extent of the "unintended" casualties and property damage the current IDF campaign is causing (the term is in quotes because that's the language they rather gallingly use, as if they expect you and I to take it face value).

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