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The Kiryat Yam shoreline (Doron Golan / Jini)
Last update - 08:55 13/02/2008
Israeli town sues Google over claim it was built on Arab village
By The Associated Press
Tags: Kiryat Yam, Google, slander 

The northern town of Kiryat Yam is suing Internet giant Google for slander, a local official said Monday, because a feature of its worldwide map service shows the town was built on the ruins of an Arab village.

The dispute brings together two controversies, one old and one new. Officials from the town deny they displaced Arabs during the War of Independence, and Google is defending the practice of allowing any surfer to change information in its files.

Kiryat Yam is a town of 40,000 on the Mediterranean coast just north of the port of Haifa. An entry on Google Earth, a feature that allows users to zero in on locations around the world, alleges that the town was built on the ruins of Ghawarina, an Arab village.
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Hundreds of thousands of Arabs fled or were expelled during the 1948-49 war. Pushing back invading Arab armies, the forces from the new Jewish state also overran Arab villages, destroying dozens.

Kiryat Yam was pulled into the dispute when a Google Earth user, Thameen Darby, inserted a note on the map saying it was built on the location of Ghawarina. Darby has inserted at least 10 such notes over Google's map of Israel.

"Kiryat Yam filed a slander complaint with Israel's police," said town official Naty Keyzilberman. "This obviously cannot be true, because Kiryat Yam was founded in 1945, he said, explaining the police complaint."

Darby, 30, a Palestinian doctor raised in the northern West Bank town of Jenin, said his mother was a refugee from to the village Balad al-Sheikh near Kiryat Yam. He said his contributions to Google Earth are part of the Nakhba - Palestinian Catastrophe information hub aimed to help displaced Palestinians understand their heritage or find the villages of their parents or grandparents.

"As far as I can know, the Arab Ghawarina locality was in the place depicted," Darby told The Associated Press. He noted that he may have not marked the exact location and "if proven wrong by reliable sources, I will be quick to reallocate it."

Darby's Web site pinpoints Ghawarina on the site of Kiryat Yam, but another places it south of Haifa at the site of a present-day Arab town, Jisr el-Zarka.

Above Kiryat Yam, Darby wrote, this is one of the Palestinian localities
evacuated and destroyed after the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.

Asked to respond to the police complaint, a Google spokesman said Google Earth depends on user-generated content that reflects what people contribute, not what Google believes is accurate. The spokesman would not give his name, in keeping with company policy.

The spokesman insisted that the altered map is not illegal, and Google's
policy is not to remove such postings.

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      2.   How about Arab occupation of Shechem? 20:47  |  David 11/02/08
      3.   Malls, discos and apartments over Jewish cemeteries 20:51  |  Judith 11/02/08
      4.   Google 20:52  |  Paul 11/02/08
      5.   funny thing about slander .... 20:55  |  bingbong 11/02/08
      6.   Let us all do the same- add more, history is quite revealing 20:58  |  Jo 11/02/08
      7.   No Apologies 21:00  |  Fish 11/02/08
      8.   to dacid #2 21:04  |  tom 11/02/08
      9.   Google responses 2+3 21:07  |  Edward 11/02/08
      10.   the zionist entity is all stolen anyway 21:13  |  Assad-u-LLAH 11/02/08
      11.   Manahatten was build on ruins of Indian village 21:14  |  Simon 11/02/08
      12.   why not also sue the person who abuses Google misguided policy ? 21:26  |  mike 11/02/08
      13.   #3 Judaith? no actually not but we all remember the tolerance mus 21:27  |  11/02/08
      14.   sue google 21:36  |  Malcolm 11/02/08
      15.   Every Jewish town and village in Israel was 21:37  |  Dany 11/02/08
      16.   to Kiriat Yam residents 21:42  |  Leila 11/02/08
      17.   Everyone should post blatantly false info all over google earth 21:43  |  McQueen 11/02/08
      18.   Kiryat Yam hits the news...Google fires back. 21:46  |  Stephen. 11/02/08
      19.   Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. 21:56  |  Moshe Dayan 11/02/08
      20.   Phantom towns sprouting up.... 22:01  |  Avi 11/02/08
      21.   kiriat yam = ghawarina 22:04  |  northern wind 11/02/08
      22.   Dany the ignorant 9 22:05  |  Free Gilad Shalit 11/02/08
      23.   Re: How about Arab occupation of Shechem? 22:08  |  johnabdl 11/02/08
      24.   Better to be a theft than a murderer - Assadullah#8 22:08  |  William 11/02/08
      25.   Moshe Dayan - It is all true 22:12  |  Fish 11/02/08
      26.   northern wind - dream on 22:14  |  Fish 11/02/08
      27.   How is it that.........? 22:17  |  Free Gilad Shalit 11/02/08
      28.   Clear-cut libel; all data shows Kiryat Yam was founded in 1945. 22:31  |  Dr. L. Brnd 11/02/08
      29.   #19 - Hey Moshe.... 22:37  |  JES 11/02/08
      30.   @northern wind 22:41  |  yossi 11/02/08
      31.   If kassam terrorism persists, Google can add these map notes - 22:50  |  Dr. L. Brnd 11/02/08
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      33.   Does Google say that.... 23:06  |  leo 11/02/08
      34.   israel probably built over yes 23:06  |  after expelling pals 11/02/08
      35.   10 23:13  |  zionist forever 11/02/08
      36.   excuse us for winning-- 23:16  |  sam 11/02/08
      37.   to Moshe Dayan 23:20  |  yuval 11/02/08
      38.   The entire Israel was built on Arab stolen land!!! 23:23  |  Moise 11/02/08
      39.   David #2 23:36  |  kamal 11/02/08
      40.   arabs need to learn about the future instead of fighting for past 23:37  |  zionist forever 11/02/08
      41.   Who Cares About Arab Invaders? 23:43  |  Steve 11/02/08
      42.   ALASSAD IS PERFECT PROOF OF HATE EDUCATION 23:44  |  TOBIA 11/02/08
      43.   Judith, #3 23:50  |  Maki 11/02/08
      44.   What was taken by force `ll be recuperated by force!! 23:53  |  Moise 11/02/08
      45.   Without Apology , the Jewish State Must Deport Arabs 23:58  |  Joseph . E 11/02/08
      46.   No one`s suing about Native American villages 23:59  |  Jeff 11/02/08
      47.   So what? 00:01  |  Joseph 12/02/08
      48.   sue them in the U.S., not in israel 00:01  |  david 12/02/08
      49.   they`re back.... 00:19  |  PAL 12/02/08
      50.   #15 = moron 00:20  |  david 12/02/08
      51.   Protest too loudly 00:21  |  Jack Olson 12/02/08
      52.   the truth will set you free 00:23  |  Bill 12/02/08
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      54.   Take it to court - tell Palestine`s history. 00:37  |  Maureen Ann 12/02/08
      55.   To learn more 00:47  |  John Smith 12/02/08
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      58.   To # 10 01:02  |  Yosi 12/02/08
      59.   I suggest Israel sues Google 01:12  |  Axel 12/02/08
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      63.   Jerusalem, Hebron to name but a few 01:48  |  zionist forever 12/02/08
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      77.   .....!!! 04:09  |  Schlomo Feltmann 12/02/08
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      94.   Assad #10 10:13  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 12/02/08
      95.   Israel has no reputation to defend 10:35  |  Clickfool 12/02/08
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      99.   Clickfool off the pace again....zzz.... 11:21  |  The Judge 12/02/08
      100.   Palestinian History would reveal many myths if we all do this 11:49  |  Josh 12/02/08
      101.   #1, #98 Steve Beikirch, Triple Jump 11:49  |  Lie Stopper 12/02/08
      102.   Easiest thing for Google to do 11:50  |  Fake Peter SM 12/02/08
      103.   #1, #98 Continued 12:03  |  Lie Stopper 12/02/08
      104.   Bulldoze the internet! 12:13  |  Groan 12/02/08
      105.   ahmed 12:13  |  The Judge 12/02/08
      106.   I call on all Israelis to do the same! 12:27  |  David 12/02/08
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      108.   # 95 clicky 12:33  |  danny 12/02/08
      109.   #81 - Colin Wright - Inaccuracies 12:34  |  JES 12/02/08
      110.   #89 palestinian refugee 12:40  |  danny 12/02/08
      111.   indrajaya 12:45  |  danny 12/02/08
      112.   groan 12:49  |  danny 12/02/08
      113.   We all should apologize 13:04  |  A mother 12/02/08
      114.   Google - a serious institution? 13:15  |  Sarah 12/02/08
      115.   Israel is the a Grand Heist of unparalleled magnitude 13:22  |  Fed up American 12/02/08
      116.   Sarah et al 13:34  |  sh 12/02/08
      117.   #115 Fed up American 13:36  |  On the Contrary 12/02/08
      118.   For Danny # 108 13:53  |  Clickfool 12/02/08
      119.   #74 13:59  |  zionist forever 12/02/08
      120.   History 14:08  |  Rik 12/02/08
      121.   Part of History 14:26  |  Wael Hendawi 12/02/08
      122.   IF ARABS HAD BRAINS 14:29  |  zionist forever 12/02/08
      123.   Please Do Raise Awareness of Israel`s Original Sins 14:43  |  Lev Bronstein 12/02/08
      124.   SUE THE BASTARDS!!! and make them liable 14:56  |  Petra 12/02/08
      125.   lev bronstein 15:11  |  danny 12/02/08
      126.   clicky 15:17  |  danny 12/02/08
      127.   wael hendawi 15:31  |  danny 12/02/08
      128.   RAF survey of 1946 shows Palestine prior to Naqba 15:34  |  Chalanau, Tova 12/02/08
      129.   sh(...t) @116 15:35  |  GABE1 12/02/08
      130.   #56viper 15:48  |  dannyAUSTRALIA 12/02/08
      131.   Israeli town sues Google over claim it was built on Arab village 16:17  |  Stanley 12/02/08
      132.   - ALL OF N. AFRICA BUILT ON BERBER LAND 16:48  |  io 12/02/08
      133.   The Al Aksa mosque was built on the ruins of the Jewish Temp 17:17  |  Zev 12/02/08
      134.   Judith #2 17:50  |  RFE 12/02/08
      135.   UPI: "Google counter sues Israeli town!" 17:57  |  tadchase 12/02/08
      136.   johnbdl 18:03  |  Said 12/02/08
      137.   Israeli town sues Google over claim it was built on Arab village 18:11  |  Michael Rivero 12/02/08
      138.   To Assad number 86 18:13  |  Jordan 12/02/08
      139.   The truth hurts 18:30  |  W 12/02/08
      140.   What about the Muslim occupation of Mecca and Medina? 18:54  |  Nannette 12/02/08
      141.   Who`s the lyer ? Certainly not a kosher serial killer ... 19:08  |  Bonheur 12/02/08
      142.   to all 19:18  |  Stealth 12/02/08
      143.   legal ramifications that a court rules Kiryat built on ruins 19:20  |  Pablo B 12/02/08
      144.   Clickfool 19:25  |  Tamir 12/02/08
      145.   Anything that raises awareness of......... 20:13  |  Deborah 12/02/08
      146.   For Tamir # 137 20:35  |  Clickfool 12/02/08
      147.   #138 Deborah 20:47  |  Lie Stopper 12/02/08
      148.   TRULY PETTY 21:11  |  Stephen Connor 12/02/08
      149.   Clickfool 21:16  |  Tamir 12/02/08
      150.   Pablo B. - Are you talking about a "can of worms?" 21:19  |  Stephen Connor 12/02/08
      151.   Clickfool (there there - pat on head) 21:25  |  BG 12/02/08
      152.   Questionf for BG # 151 21:55  |  Clickfool 12/02/08
      153.   #143 Pablo 22:00  |  Chris Linthwaite 12/02/08
      154.   Clickfool 22:02  |  BG 12/02/08
      155.   #151 DG 22:04  |  Chris Linthwaite 12/02/08
      156.   Clickfool 22:05  |  Avner 12/02/08
      157.   Jackie, #72 22:15  |  Maki 12/02/08
      158.   Transjordanians, Philistines, Pereans 22:19  |  Elimelech 12/02/08
      159.   clicky 22:28  |  danny 12/02/08
      160.   Chris 22:28  |  BG 12/02/08
      161.   Fine Chris 22:30  |  BG 12/02/08
      162.   Go Click go!!! 22:51  |  The Judge 12/02/08
      163.   If it moves , sue it 22:54  |  Labhras 12/02/08
      164.   Clicky on Sussex being nice 23:00  |  The Judge 12/02/08
      165.   Excavate Kiryat Yam hasta pronto! 23:02  |  Woody 12/02/08
      166.   Darby is the Slanderer, like most Pals 23:25  |  Efox 12/02/08
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      168.   Clickfool Question (#146) 23:35  |  Gil 12/02/08
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      172.   #158 Elimelech 23:57  |  ballistic 12/02/08
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      174.   #104, and #135 00:10  |  heinz 13/02/08
      175.   A mesage from Clickfool 00:47  |  Clickfool 13/02/08
      176.   # 123 Leon of Russia the Hypocritic just Spews 01:17  |  Sandman 13/02/08
      177.   #10 Assad and all fellow travelers 01:40  |  right hand of god 13/02/08
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      184.   Jesus was also palestinian 03:49  |  enrique 13/02/08
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      186.   #174 elias 04:02  |  danny 13/02/08
      187.   #109 JES on the "northern invasion of Israel" 04:04  |  Johnboy 13/02/08
      188.   #172 pal prince 04:04  |  danny 13/02/08
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      190.   Moishe, # 180 05:15  |  Maki 13/02/08
      191.   #183 EnriquMore chance of finding jewish coins in Russia. 05:26  |  PADDY 13/02/08
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      197.   #185 - Johnboy 06:51  |  JES 13/02/08
      198.   Your stupidity and ignorance 06:53  |  Ziyad 13/02/08
      199.   185Johnboy, you are plain wrong 07:15  |  Rob 13/02/08
      200.   #198 JES doesn`t like being told he is wrong.... 07:33  |  Johnboy 13/02/08
      201.   Ignorant 07:45  |  Tom 13/02/08
      202.   Kiryat Yam was never an Arab village 08:04  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 13/02/08
      203.   #130, DANNY, peed of for the truth 08:18  |  VIPER 13/02/08
      204.   WORTH REPEATING for the demented defenders of Israel... 08:25  |  PADDY 13/02/08
      205.   Moshe Dayan 09:29  |  Murad 13/02/08
      206.   Tourists to Israel 09:31  |  Clickfool 13/02/08
      207.   Al Aqsa is on the ruins of the Temple 09:32  |  Izzy 13/02/08
      208.   Thanks for the chuckle, "The Judge" # 162 09:35  |  Clickfool 13/02/08
      209.   Not so wonderful bits of Sussex 09:45  |  Clickfool 13/02/08
      210.   Ignorance is Strength 09:50  |  Clickfool 13/02/08
      211.   lincoln stupid comment 10:15  |  abe 13/02/08
      212.   #200 - Sure, Johnboy 10:30  |  JES 13/02/08
      213.   paddy #204 10:34  |  danny 13/02/08
      214.   paddy #204 10:35  |  danny 13/02/08
      215.   #204 Definitely worth repeating, Paddy 11:01  |  JES 13/02/08
      216.   clicky I knew it 11:07  |  danny 13/02/08
      217.   What`s interesting is... 11:07  |  JES 13/02/08
      218.   clicky 11:10  |  danny 13/02/08
      219.   #199 Is that so, Rob? 12:26  |  Johnboy 13/02/08
      220.   # 10 14:45  |  Nicole 13/02/08
      221.   #219 - Nice try, Johnboy 14:46  |  JES 13/02/08
      222.   219Johnboy, it is so. Read about the Lebanese army column 15:58  |  Rob 13/02/08
      223.   Palestinians should sue Google too? 17:01  |  Amman Voice 13/02/08
      224.   What A Joke 22:53  |  Darren 13/02/08
      225.   #215 JES -CAMERA ???!!! 23:04  |  PADDY 13/02/08
      226.   #221 Nice try indeed, JES 02:32  |  Johnboy 14/02/08
      227.   #221 Nice try indeed, JES Part 2 02:41  |  Johnboy 14/02/08
      228.   #225 - Paddy me lad 07:05  |  JES 14/02/08
      229.   #224 - Darren 07:09  |  JES 14/02/08
      230.   #222 Is that so, Rob? 10:33  |  Johnboy 14/02/08
      231.   Correction to #229 10:35  |  JES 14/02/08
      232.   #230 - Johnboy 17:35  |  JES 14/02/08
      233.   Good Idea - Return the land! 23:29  |  Bill 14/02/08
      234.   #232 Is that so, JES? 00:35  |  Johnboy 15/02/08
      235.   #232 JES thinks a nation must have tunnel-vision 00:43  |  Johnboy 15/02/08
      236.   #234 - Another morning laugh. Thanks Johnboy! 08:05  |  JES 15/02/08
      237.   #236 There is a big difference between a laugh and being a joke 02:05  |  Johnboy 16/02/08
      238.   #237 - Sure there` s a difference... 06:52  |  JES 16/02/08
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