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Israel Accuses Facebook Of Aiding Terrorists and Hampering Police Investigations (reuters.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the hating-hate-speech dept.

"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."

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  1. Israel abuses human rights by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The war crimes committed in Lebanon and Gaza are awful. I despise Hamas and Hezbollah; they cannot be justified. However, the use of cluster bombs in southern Lebanon is inexcusable. How about Israel submits their leaders for war crimes prosecution and then we'll talk?

    1. Re: Israel abuses human rights by PopeRatzo · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I want everyone to take a close look at the URL of this guy's citation of a "survey of respected Generals from around the world".

      www.high-level-military-group.org

      Can anyone else spot the clue that it's bogus?

      OK, now take a loot at the "In The Media" section from that website. Can you spot the single issue that appears to be the sole reason for this group of "respected Generals from around the world" to exist?

      http://www.high-level-military...

      You have to be able to know when you're being had.

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      You are welcome on my lawn.
    2. Re: Israel abuses human rights by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Oh well in that case cluster bombing civilians is OK because they didn't sign a treaty saying it's not OK.

    3. Re: Israel abuses human rights by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Why do you hate jews?

      Because they're doing similar to Palestine that the Nazis did to them, and have the audacity to scream "antisemitism" when anyone tries to call them on it.

    4. Re: Israel abuses human rights by Dog-Cow · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Really? The German Jewish population was decimated during WWII. The Arab population in the WB has increased by several hundred percent since 1967. Please explain how Israel is doing to the Arabs what the Germans did to the Jews.

      We'll wait, but we won't hold our breath.

  2. On the other hand by fredrated · · Score: 0, Insightful

    if they assist Israel they are assisting a terrorist organization.

  3. Here's a novel idea by Nidi62 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you want the Palestinians to stop attacking Israelis a good step would be to stop the settlements, closely followed by not tearing down peoples' houses every time a family member commits a crime against an israeli. You are making the Palestinians not care any more. And when people don't care they will do anything.

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    The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
    1. Re: Here's a novel idea by alvinrod · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Banning religion wouldn't solve anything. People would simply gravitate towards other ideologies which inevitably recreate the same conflicts. Look at the growing strife between the political right and political left. There have been numerous cases of violence from members of both sides of the isle at political rallies this election cycle. The same happens between football club fans in Europe from time to time as well.

      Humans are a tribal species and as long as there are multiple camps to which one can belong, we'll continue to find ourselves opposed to one and other, often with some amount of violence.

    2. Re: Here's a novel idea by DoofusOfDeath · · Score: 1, Insightful

      The Israeli settlements are mostly populated and supported by secular Jews, including immigrants from Russia and Eastern Europe who came to Israel for economic opportunity, not religion.

      "s/economic opportunity/living space/"

  4. Re:No justice, no peace. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You know Gaza borders on Egypt too, right? So why aren't you just trying to convince Egypt to support the Palestinians?

    Is it because you don't really care about Gazans and you just want a reason to hate Israel, or because you recognize that Egypt wants nothing to do with them because they're run by terrorists?

    You see, the people of Gaza are being held hostage by their own government. Unfortunately they have developed Stockholm Syndrome, so they keep electing terrorists to hold themselves hostage.

    It's not like Israel decided they hated Palestinians so they blockaded Gaza, forcing Gaza to lob rockets at them. In reality, Israel was tired of getting rockets lobbed at them, so they put up a blockade to prevent them from getting more rockets.

    The way to end the "siege" is to give up their weapons and release their hostages. If they stop trying to smuggle in rockets, there will no longer be a need for a blockade.

    dom