By Making Palestinian Villages Invisible, Google and Apple Maps Facilitate Their Demolition
NOVANEWS
By David Palumbo-Liu
 Truthout
A Palestinian looks out toward Israel from his home in the West Bank, June 7, 2016. (Photo: Daniel Berehulak / The New York Times)
With President-elect Donald Trump's announcement that he is nominating David Friedman to fill the post of US ambassador to Israel -- a person who has declared a two-state solution to be a "suicidal peace" with "radical Islamists" and who has accused American Jews who support such a measure of being no better than Nazis -- concern that further demolitions will follow under the Trump regime has added more urgency to ongoing efforts to save Palestinian villages from being demolished.
The current struggle to demand that the Israeli government, Google and Apple Maps acknowledge and mark the existence of Palestinian vil...