Facebook enters the Israel/Palestine conflict
IMEMC reports:
Due to complaints from Israeli settlers over the selection of geographical location, the American based Facebook website will now allow a choice between stating one's home in either Israel or Palestine.
Israelis living in settlements inside the West Bank complained this week that the Facebook social network site listed them as living in 'Palestine', and not in 'Israel'.
The settlers formed a group on Facebook named "its Israel not Palestine", which rapidly grew to include some 13,000 members accusing the American service of having a political agenda. In response, Facebook administrators have allowed then to choose between Palestine or Israel as their location.
Communications manager at Facebook, Brandi Barker, stated that settlers living in settlement blocks in the West Bank can now choose their country as Palestine or Israel, as they prefer.
Palestinian subscribers of Facebook formed a group, named 'its Palestine not Israel', which also attracted considerable attention, gaining some 4300 members. They collectively threatened that if Facebook remove Palestine from the country selection, they would close their accounts.
According to international law and UN resolutions, the Israeli settlements built in the West Bank, as part of the occupied Palestinian territories, are illegal.
posted by Iqbal Khaldun @ 11:54 PM
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4 Comments:
People have a right to designate any place they live in any way they want.
Only a mad dog or a Moslem would make an issue of this. But, any culture that cuts girls' clitoris is capapble of anything including getting mad at a website.
emanuel appel
Sorry EA, but I don't think people do actually have that right. Entire legal systems are based upon the opposite view. But all people do have certain (more clearly identifiable) rights, like, say, the right to self-determination or the right to be free from collective punishment.
I can assure you I am not a mad dog, nor am I a muslim (although I can't imagine what would be wrong with being the latter; I wonder if you would like people to discriminate against or denegrate YOU because of your religion?), and here I am disagreeing with your proposition.
I am only taking the time to write this response because I am sickened by the fact that people can't even express their views on the legal status of Gaza without being condemned as mad or, of all things, female genital mutilators, who are "capapble of anything" by virtue of their religion. It seems to me this is the stuff that genocide (or, dare I say, holocaust) is made of.
That should have been West Bank rather than Gaza.
Innteresting read
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