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Viewpoint - March 24, 2011

Israel's diplomacy minister wrote to Facebook founder Mark
Zuckerburg Wednesday demanding...
From: Ma'an News Agency

BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Israel's diplomacy minister wrote to
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerburg Wednesday demanding the
removal of the group,"Third Palestinian Intifada" from
the social networking site, Israeli media reported.

While it remains unclear whether the group will be taken
off the site, Third Palestinian Intifada's administrators
insisted via a posting on the site that they were committed
to a peaceful approach and international standards of
freedom of expression.

Launched in early March, the group has over 250,000
supporters and calls for a Palestinian intifada on May
15, the day which commemorates the Palestinian Nakba
(catastrophe) on 1948, when hundreds of thousands were
displaced in the lead-up to the founding of the state
of Israel.

Intifada, or uprising, literally means "to shake off" in
Arabic, and on 15 May, refugees around the world have
planned peaceful protests outside of Israeli embassies
demanding an end to occupation.

In the past three decades, Palestinians have launched two
intifadas, the first in 1987. The second, and far-deadlier
uprising, began in 2000.

"After the Tunisian, Egyptian, and Libyan intifadas, it's
time for the Palestinian intifada," the page says. It
calls for an uprising "against injustice, division and
corruption," according to the administrators' post.

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Israeli Minister of Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs Yuli
Edelstein said in his letter to the Facebook administr-
ators, that there must be a discernible difference between
freedom of expression and freedom to incite, Israeli news
website Ynet reported. He was not writing in an official
capacity, the letter said.

The letter was sent as Israel passed a bill outlawing
events commemorating the Nakba. Many of the 1.5 million
Palestinians in Israel, and almost 300,000 residents of
occupied East Jerusalem were displaced during the events
of 1948, and mark the Nakba as a moment of upheaval in
Palestinian history.

Facebook pages can be removed by reporting pages that
fulfill one of a number of criteria, including hate
speech, attacks an individual, violence or harmful
behavior.

The groups Thursday post stated: "There are thousands of
pages on Facebook calling for uprising against restrictive
systems and laws everywhere.

"Some of these pages even obviously incite the use of
violence like the pages on Syria, Iraq, and Algeria, and
these pages were not shut down.

"If this page specifically, which is the largest Palestin-
ian page on the social network, was closed, then all
nations would see the hidden and real face of the Facebook
administration."

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