Wow the CEO finally grew some balls. Has been such a pushover for years. Trying to be global capitalist empire while entertaining the demands of bratty employees that continuously humiliated him. Good job for a change!
It is possible that the CEO of Google may have considered the economic impact cessation of the service to Israel might cause, and weighed that against employee fallout.
It would have been incredible to have been a fly on the wall as Sundar Pichai came to the decision to have the protestors fired/arrested.