Since Google launched its Google Earth feature in 2005, the company has become a worldwide leader in providing high-resolution satellite imagery. In 2010, Google Earth allowed the world to see the extent of the destruction in post-earthquake Haiti. This year, Google released similar images after Japan's deadly tsunami and earthquake. With just one click, Google can bring the world—and a better understanding of far-away events—to your computer.
There is one entire country, however, that Google Earth won't show you: Israel.
towermonkey wrote: Because Israel requested it, congress made a law. It is ridiculous how much influence Israel has on our government.
Israel is a valued ally of this nation. I'm certain that Congress would have acquiesced to a similar request from Great Britain, France or Canada if it had been made. Israel is a little more concerned than the other nations are - understandably so given their unique situation of being surrounded on all sides by states that have at one time or another openly preached their total destruction and removal from the face of the earth.
Congress agreed to a request made by an ally, nothing more, nothing less. Israel didn't control that, the Congress did. They could have refused the request if they had wished to do so instead of honoring it.
