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Israel Accuses Facebook Of Aiding Terrorists and Hampering Police Investigations (reuters.com)
"The young generation in the Palestinian Authority suckles all of its incitement against Israel from Facebook and, in the end, goes and commits murders," Israel's Minister of Internal Security said Saturday. "Some of the blood of the victims of the recent attacks...is unfortunately on the hands of Mark Zuckerberg, because the police and security forces could have been told about the post of that vile murderer." Reuters calls the remarks "ramping up the pressure" as Israel prepares legislation which would allow it to order social media sites to remove posts it considered threatening. The security minister says Facebook currently "sets a very high bar for removing inciteful content and posts" and "sabotages the work of the Israeli police" by being uncooperative.
Facebook responded that there's "no room for content that promotes violence, direct threats, terrorist or hate speeches on our platform." BetaNews writes that "while Facebook waits for content to be reported before acting, Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked said that the site should be pro-active in seeking out offending content instead."
Facebook responded that there's "no room for content that promotes violence, direct threats, terrorist or hate speeches on our platform." BetaNews writes that "while Facebook waits for content to be reported before acting, Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked said that the site should be pro-active in seeking out offending content instead."
End the siege of Gaza.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2008/12/gaza-reduced-bare-survival-20081205/
Give back the Palestinians their land as mandated in UN Resolution 242. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_242
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2008/08/trapped-collective-punishment-gaza-20080812/
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2008/08/trapped-collective-punishment-gaza-20080812/
Let Palestinians have the same rights as Israelis.End the first class citizen/second class citizen power structure. Free Palestinian children from jails. Injustice begets extremism and as long as Israelis play 'master race' over an oppressed peoples, this will never end. Give back the Palestinians their land, rights, and dignity.
1. ARe you talking about 2008?
2. Cluster bombs are legal under intl law *unless* you sign the treaty prohibiting them (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_munition). While Israel commits war crimes, cluster bombs are not one of them.
So settlements is the excuse now? What was the Palestinians' excuse during the 1929 Safed Riots, or the 1929 Hebron Massacre, or the 1938 Tiberias Massacre, or the 1834 Safed Massacre, or the the 1517 Safed Massacre, or the 1838 attack on Safed, or the 1834 Hebron Massacre, or the 1660 Destruction of Safed, or the 1660 Destruction of Tiberias?
All of those occurred before Israel was even formed. Between the formation of Israel and the first constructed settlement (1948-1967), there were an average of just over 3.2 attacks on civilians per year originating in the Jordan-controlled West Bank, ignoring the multiple actual wars that were started.
When Israel entirely withdrew from all Gaza settlements in 2005, they were immediately met with an increase of violence, not less.
So is there *any* reason to believe the Palestinians -- the same people who overwhelmingly support the government that holds this kind of shit at their schools -- would stop attacking civilians if the settlements are disbanded?
Fuck no. The settlements are just a convenient excuse, not that the Palestinians need one to kill teh joos.
There was never palestinian arab identity and it was manufactured and nurtured with the express intent of eradicating Israel.
Sure there was....Before WW2. Remember, the area we now call Israel was majority Palestinian before WW2. Then the brits basically just handed the region over to the remaining Jews of EUROPE...and ignored the Palestinian locals
Yeah sure, the Brits and everyone else felt guilty about the Holocaust, but that was no excuse for the stupidity that has caused endless sorrow. The whole word would have been better off if the jews of Europe had been handed a piece of Arizona or Alaska and told to either shut the fuck up about Palestine or go back to post-war Europe where they were FROM.
including immigrants from Russia and Eastern Europe who came to Israel for economic opportunity, not religion.
And almost all those russian and Eastern European jews were Hasidic/Haredi/Orthodox, who swelled the numbers of Likud, who then sabotaged the peace process by doing everything they could do undermine Fatah.
Then they could point to Hamas taking over as "see? All the Palestinians are terrorists who want to obliterate Israel, they elected Hamas!"
Whether or not it's an excuse, the building of settlements on land seized through warfare is a violation of international law.
Mostly on pressure from jews in the US who apparently have a huge voting and bribing capacity. The same mechanism that has prevented normal relations between the US and Cuba for decades.
Whereas, its perfectly fine for Israel to fire missiles and artillery into civillians areas, hitting schools and hospitals?
Frankly one Israeli girl is nothing compared to the thousands of Palestinian children killed by Israel.
So kindly fuck off you shilling cunt.
The discussion so far: A couple of Israeli ministers spew complete nonsense. A bunch of Slashdot readers respond with complete and utter baseless bullshit. Pro-Israeli readers respond with rehashed lines. Everybody feel so much better for "sticking it" to the other side. Great...
My side (the pro-Israel side) has started pushing the "Palestinians are a made up nation" narrative. I hate that narrative. Not because it is factually false, but because it is irrelevant. Whether manufactured or organically grown, whether ancient or 60 years old, the Palestinians are a nation today, and as such, their quest (such that there is) for self determination is a legitimate one.
With that said, what you replied is factually false. Pre-WW2 there is was no Palestinian nation. The people you refer to who lived in mandatory Palestine did not call themselves Palestinian. They called themselves Arab. They had none of the markers that made them a distinct nation than the Arabs who lived in any other territories in the area.
The Palestinian nation developed as a result of the Israeli-Arab conflict. After Israel was founded, those specific Arabs were treated distinctly from the rest of the Arab population, both by Israel and by other surrounding countries. It should not surprise anyone that when a group of people is treated distinctly, it starts to think of itself as distinct.
As for the rest of your suggestion for the Jews, my family came from Iraq. The family left there after the Iraqi government pushed the Jews out by confiscating their property. What exactly is your helpful suggestion to me?