As
brought up by HonestReporting, Yahoo has engaged in the political SimCity game and created two virtual cities, "East Jerusalem" and "West Jerusalem". The weather data for them are grabbed from the real Jerusalem, Israel, weather station, and duplicated under the two respective headers. The city of Jerusalem, the holiest Jewish city (some people say it even means something to Christians and Muslims), known as such for 3,000 years, and the capital of Israel, has ceased to be - in the Yahoo universe. To be sure, the data for the virtual cities are identical, underscoring that the city is one. Perhaps the next step for Yahoo will be providing that weather report in Hebrew for the "West" one, and in Palestinian... oops, there is no such language or
nation, for that matter - in Arabic for the "East J".
Or Arabic will be used for both: in Yahoo's opinion, according to its directory, the City of Jerusalem is under the "
Places in Palestinian Authority". Thank G-d, it is still listed among
Israeli cities as well - for how long will it remain so?
PS. June 16, 2010. - Sometimes
truth prevails!
