To the moderator:

It is not my intent to make this issue personal, but I have to tell you that I take great exception to your previous post.

You describe this collection of placemarks as "excellent". Can you honestly expect to have any credibility as a neutral moderator when you have taken such a clearly biased position? Does Google condone this? Has Google now taken a position on the Mideast conflict?

Let me tell you how I describe the collection of placemarks: cartographic vandalism. The entire map of Israel is now almost totally obscured with the placemarks from this post. To suggest that they are only a collection of placemarks and that they are not politically charged or even slightly controversial is completely absurd. Each and every placemark links to an external website full of lies, propaganda and misinformation intended to discredit and villify Zionism and the State of Israel.

You say, "In here, we are not Israeli, Palestinian, Eastern, Middle Eastern, Western, or anything other than fellow Google Earth Community citizens..." If that were truly the case, do you honestly believe that this post with its provocative title "Nakba- The Palestinian Catastrophe" would even exist? I agree with you that the original poster set a relatively diplomatic tone, but to suggest that he doesn't have an ambitious political agenda would be incredibly naive.

You refer to the BBS rules. I have read these. The very first section states, "Participants shall not post any material likely to cause offence...". I can assure you that I as well as many others, a number of whom have previously spoken up, find this post incredibly offensive. As a result, it is not only likely to cause offence, it actually does cause offence. For this reason, I request that it be removed forthwith.