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With US-made munitions
Don’t underestimate Israeli munitions. Israel is like the sixth biggest defense exporter, bigger than the UK.
Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?
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Re: Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?
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Israel is done being on the receiving end of the Iranian octopus. No more Iranian missiles, rockets, drones, or Iranian funded and directed Islamist terrorists on its borders.
Only Syria is an exception: there, it was internal Druze pressure on the Israeli government to act to protect their brothers in Syria.
Re: Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?
#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sure, but I'm in the US, which is not a party to the conflict between Israel and Lebanon. To my knowledge the US continues to recognize Lebanon as a sovereign country.
We had to build a very expensive and risky pier to get aid into to Gaza instead of just sending it through our ally Israel to be delivered over the ground. There's something different than a normal ally relationship.
Blame the Israeli public for not wanting to feed their enemy.
Re: Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?
#155Multiple commenters here are asking if the towns and villages were ever included in Apple maps in the first place, and some people are saying we should obviously assume they were. However, a quick search reveals at least a few people claiming that Apple Maps has always been empty for Lebanon outside of major cities (and at least one commenter says they are Lebanese): https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/1sjmrol/co…
Why do we need to bother with facts when we can do rage bait conspiracy theories instead?
Re: Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?
#156Currently 50 points and is just a link to Apple Maps with an unverified claim. EDIT: I'm at -2 for stating a fact.
Yeah true, how do we know these bridges and towns were there beforehand? Maybe Apple has never had good coverage in this area. Just linking to a map doesn't tell us what was removed or when.
My family name comes from a Christian town in the mountains of Lebanon. I'm positive it was previously on Apple Maps (I've
shown it to people before), but now has no label. It still exists on other mapping services and if I search on DuckDuckGo, the top info summary includes an Apple Maps widget with the town. Clicking on it takes me to Apple Maps with the pin in the right place, without a label.
So it's clear that it was there and is no longer there. I'm not making a judgement as to why it's no longer there (the post on X makes an unsubstantiated claim that it's intentional). Could be a bug for all I know. I'm unwilling to make the leap that it's some malicious attempt without actual evidence. I can only verify that it no longer has a label.
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Israel is done being on the receiving end of the Iranian octopus. No more Iranian missiles, rockets, drones, or Iranian funded and directed Islamist terrorists on its borders. Only Syria is an exception: there, it was internal Druze pressure on the Israeli government to act to protect their brothers in Syria.
Israel and the US are the number one terrorists on the planet. Israel started this fight and continues to fan the flames of war in the region.
Israel instead should be a democracy with equal rights for all subject to its rule instead of an oppressive, expansionist, Jewish-supremacist state.
Israel’s existence by violence is the source of the problem. Israel’s dismantlement is the answer.
So, which reply will you go with? They started it? Or maybe “you expect us to just give terrorists equal rights?”
Re: Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?
#158Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why do you say unverified? You can activate the hybrid satellite view and look around. There are many towns and cities showing up on satellite view without any label. That's easily verifiable.
What's not easily verifiable is (1) whether they were removed, in the sense that they were there before and now are not; (2) if so, when; and (3) if so, why. The obvious interpretation—that they've been removed for political reasons connected to the current war—would require knowing all 3 of these, and we don't know those things yet.
I can only verify #1. I make no claim to issues #2 or #3. See my comment here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47744840
Edit: I've replied to my previous post with a bit more context. Seems it's possible it was only ever briefly on Apple Maps.
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Israel is done being on the receiving end of the Iranian octopus. No more Iranian missiles, rockets, drones, or Iranian funded and directed Islamist terrorists on its borders. Only Syria is an exception: there, it was internal Druze pressure on the Israeli government to act to protect their brothers in Syria.
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Re: Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?
#160This reminds me a bit of the Gulf of America fiasco from last year where if you changed your location to outside the US it would go back to showing Gulf of Mexico. I'm not sure why they would do this for US users unless the US government requested it.
This is worldwide, not just for US users.
And most towns seem missing, including in areas Israel has never bombed.
It keeps blowing me away how brain dead the internet can be.