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Israel Asked Facebook CEO to Remove “Third Palestinian Intifada” Page

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I'll give a slightly political insight on this issue, from within Israel.

The past few weeks have seen an ongoing effort in Israel to report said page to Facebook. There are two questions to be asked here.

First, is this a call for violence? There is no clear cut answer. "Intifada", in Arabic, means "uprising". Sure, the past two Intifadas (1987-1993 and 2000-2005) had a violent angle to them. But it seems the Palestinians, at this stage, have established that violence and terror do not help their cause. They understand very well that they can win (and are winning) Israel in the international diplomacy arena. So, violence is probably not the intent, but I find it hard to imagine a peaceful uprising, that does not expand to violent acts.

Second, why the uproar in Israel? This seems to me like a classic oppressive maneuver by the Israeli crowd. The status-quo in the peace talks with Palestinians is largely to be blamed on current and previous Israeli governments. Further expansion of settlements in the West Bank, with total disregard to previous understandings with the international community does not help. Sure, the Palestinians have their share of the blame, but it is clear the Israeli government is doing nothing to help the situation.

The better part of the Israelis seem to think it's perfectly possible to maintain this status-quo, all the while oppressing the Palestinians aspirations towards an independent state. This will not happen. As long as the occupation continues, and peace talks are stalled, the Third Intifada, Facebook'd or not, is inevitable.

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First time a government official asks facebook to remove a page?

Second time you post this anti-semitic garbage?

This is not anti-semitic, it is a true news story and ironic from a government to ask facebook for censorship, plus for your info Arabs are semitic too!

Don't be coy please, anti semitism is a real issue. The first and second intifadas involved bus bombings and other constant acts of terror so yes, I believe this page calls for violence. Also, I imagine you would agree that a country should be expected not to be lax about a page which calls for rallying and support toward its complete annihilation and governmental upheaval. Political leaning aside, facebook and israel have every right, and arguably responsibility, to protect the lives of hundreds of Israelis (Arab and jewish alike) by taking down a page which calls for a third round of day to day terror attacks and bus bombs.

intifida is not terror the real terrorist is the state of israel which killed 10s of thousands of palestinians and took their land.

If Israel was doing the right thing it should not worry for a facebook page that calls on a revolution against it.

Palestinians are uprising against occupation, discrimination stealing their land and their right to live freely. All legitimate causes.

On that page there is no call for violence, and even if there was, ISraeli officials call for violence against palestinians all the time in the name of self defense, so thus their pages should be deleted. But i am against deleting any page, free speech should be reserved and people choose

I hate to be a nerd, but I thought Arabic was a Semitic language. This has always confused me about the term.

It's anti-the-semitics-we-like-ism.

Can we get a reference on how a page detailing an Israeli request for the removal of a Facebook page is antisemitic?

You might agree with that request. Feel free to tell us why.

But by calling post itself antisemitic, are you not saying that letting people know what the Israeli government is doing is, in itself, antisemitic??

Seems rather problematic...

well said :)

The problem is the claim that this page suggests no acts of violence toward the Israeli people. In fact, I'd imagine the israeli government would be quite alright with what it believed to be a peaceful palestinian rally. I don't believe they would speak up to the CEO of facebook over something they believe to be benign. This post has nothing to do with technology, and in essence encourages the encouragement of the encouragement of violence, which should not be mistaken as something purely informative. This does not follow the HN guidelines, please do not post politically charged links again.

The problem is the claim that this page suggests no acts of violence toward the Israeli people. In fact, I'd imagine the israeli government would be quite alright with what it believed to be a peaceful palestinian rally. I don't believe they would speak up to the CEO of facebook over something they believe to be benign. This post has nothing to do with technology, and in essence encourages the encouragement of the encouragement of violence, which should not be mistaken as something purely informative. This does not follow HN guidelines, Arabgeek, as is encourages political discussion rather than technology discussion. Please do not post politically charged links again.

This post is a tech post. Facebook is a web social network, a free speech platform. not my problem if ISraeli government is political by it self. you trust the ISraeli government so much how can you be sure that it is right their is call for violence in that page? did you browse the page? it calls for peaceful protests

Is there an emoticon for heavily ironic?

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