Google 'recognizes' Palestine

Foreign Policy ^ | 5-2-2013 | Elias Groll

[Sir Napsalot]

First the United Nations, now Google. On Thursday, the Palestine News Network noticed that the Internet giant had changed the tagline for the Palestinian edition of its search engine, Google.ps, from the "Palestinian Territories" to "Palestine." The decision comes after a November vote by the U.N. General Assembly to recognize Palestine as a non-member state over the objections of Israel and the United States.

Here's how Google.ps looked earlier this year, according to the Wayback Machine Internet archive. The gray words in Arabic below the word "Google" say, "Palestinian Territories."

And here's how the same page looks today, with the word "Palestine" instead:

The change is obviously a minor one, but within the context of the fraught politics of the Middle East, Google's decision could be interpreted as a victory for advocates of Palestinian statehood who supported Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's recent decision to circumvent the long-stalled, U.S.-supported peace process with Israel. .......

[Sir Napsalot]

Several days old 'news', I did a search and this hasn't been posted.

Also Israel Questions Google's Decision To Recognize Palestine (HuffPo)

[jjotto]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3015540/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3015428/posts

[Sir Napsalot]

Sorry, my search did not come up with these threads.

Admin, Could you pull this one, please?

[Pollster1]

that’s okay. I no longer recognize Google.