Facebook Emerges as Venue for Israel-Palestine Debate

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SAN FRANCISCO – The online social networking site Facebook has become a focus for the Israel-Palestine debate, spurred in part by a decision by the site in 2006 to remove Palestine from the list of countries users could choose when registering for the site, reports The Jewish News Weekly of Northern California. That inspired a flurry of messages including one from Ronald Habash, a member of the Palestine network at the University of Illinois. “I find it extremely offensive that Facebook does not acknowledge Palestine as a nation. Clearly, such acts are deemed anti-Palestinian,” wrote Habash in an online petition. Many other Facebook members viewed the removal of Palestine as a violation of Facebook’s own policy against content that is “defamatory, infringing, abusive, inflammatory…hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable.” Facebook reinstated Palestine in early 2007 to its list of countries.

Facebook Emerges as Venue for Israel-Palestine Debate - NAM

 

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SAN FRANCISCO – The online social networking site Facebook has become a focus for the Israel-Palestine debate, spurred in part by a decision by the site in 2006 to remove Palestine from the list of countries users could choose when registering for the site, reports The Jewish News Weekly of Northern California. That inspired a flurry of messages including one from Ronald Habash, a member of the Palestine network at the University of Illinois. “I find it extremely offensive that Facebook does not acknowledge Palestine as a nation. Clearly, such acts are deemed anti-Palestinian,” wrote Habash in an online petition. Many other Facebook members viewed the removal of Palestine as a violation of Facebook’s own policy against content that is “defamatory, infringing, abusive, inflammatory…hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable.” Facebook reinstated Palestine in early 2007 to its list of countries.

Facebook Emerges as Venue for Israel-Palestine Debate - NAM

 

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SAN FRANCISCO – The online social networking site Facebook has become a focus for the Israel-Palestine debate

Too bad for Facebook Palestine doesnt exist.

Middle East historian Bernard Lewis...

The Palestine entity, formally established and defined by Britain, was formaly abolished in 1948 with the termination of the Mandate.

 

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SAN FRANCISCO – The online social networking site Facebook has become a focus for the Israel-Palestine debate

Too bad for Facebook Palestine doesnt exist.

Middle East historian Bernard Lewis...

The Palestine entity, formally established and defined by Britain, was formaly abolished in 1948 with the termination of the Mandate.

Do you have anything to back up that quote like an independent source?

 

[Marc39]

SAN FRANCISCO – The online social networking site Facebook has become a focus for the Israel-Palestine debate

Too bad for Facebook Palestine doesnt exist.

Middle East historian Bernard Lewis...

The Palestine entity, formally established and defined by Britain, was formaly abolished in 1948 with the termination of the Mandate.

Do you have anything to back up that quote like an independent source?

You need an education, not just "anything"

 

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The online social networking site Facebook has become a focus for the Israel-Palestine debate

Too bad for Facebook Palestine doesnt exist.
Middle East historian Bernard Lewis...

The Palestine entity, formally established and defined by Britain, was formaly abolished in 1948 with the termination of the Mandate.

Do you have anything to back up that quote like an independent source?

Philip Hitti testified before the Anglo-American committee in 1946: "There is no such thing as "Palestine" in history, absolutely not."

 

[Marc39]

Ronald Habash, a member of the Palestine network at the University of Illinois. “I find it extremely offensive that Facebook does not acknowledge Palestine as a nation.

Historian Bernard Lewis...

For Arabs, the term Palestine was unacceptable. For Muslims it was alien and irrelevant. The main objection for them was that it seemed to assert a separate entity which politically conscious Arabs in Palestine and elsewhere denied. For them there was no such thing as a country called Palestine. The region which the British called Palestine was merely a separated part of a larger whole [Syria]. For a long time organized and articulate Arab political opinion was virtually unanimous on this point.

 

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Too bad for Facebook Palestine doesnt exist.
Middle East historian Bernard Lewis...

Do you have anything to back up that quote like an independent source?[/size][/i]

Philip Hitti testified before the Anglo-American committee in 1946: "There is no such thing as "Palestine" in history, absolutely not."

The Palestine Mandate (British occupation of Palestine) ended in 1948.

Palestine went from being occupied be the British to being occupied by Israel, Jordan, and Egypt.

 

[Marc39]

Do you have anything to back up that quote like an independent source?[/size][/i]

Philip Hitti testified before the Anglo-American committee in 1946: "There is no such thing as "Palestine" in history, absolutely not."

The Palestine Mandate (British occupation of Palestine) ended in 1948.

Palestine went from being occupied be the British to being occupied by Israel, Jordan, and Egypt.

Incorrect.

The British Mandate ended. The Palestine Mandate establishing Palestine as the Jewish homeland, a separate entity, has never terminated, protected by the UN Charter.

Now, you know.

 

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Palestine went from being occupied be the British to being occupied by Israel, Jordan, and Egypt.

Incorrect.

Palestine has never existed in history as a country or state or political or legal entity.

There is not one reference to Palestine in the Hebrew Bible, Christian Bible or Quran.
There is not one reference to Palestine in any historical document of the Biblical era.

In fact, the Romans invented Palestine well after the Biblical era when they renamed Judea, land of the Jews, Palaestina, named after the Philistines who were Greek not Arab.

 

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Philip Hitti testified before the Anglo-American committee in 1946: "There is no such thing as "Palestine" in history, absolutely not."

The Palestine Mandate (British occupation of Palestine) ended in 1948.

Palestine went from being occupied be the British to being occupied by Israel, Jordan, and Egypt.

Incorrect.

The British Mandate ended. The Palestine Mandate establishing Palestine as the Jewish homeland, a separate entity, has never terminated, protected by the UN Charter.

Now, you know.

Incorrect.

Israel is a foreign entity inside Palestine.

Now you know.

 

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Do you have anything to back up that quote like an independent source?

Philip Hitti testified before the Anglo-American committee in 1946: "There is no such thing as "Palestine" in history, absolutely not."

The Palestine Mandate (British occupation of Palestine) ended in 1948. Palestine went from being occupied be the British to being occupied by Israel, Jordan, and Egypt.

In other words, it doesn't exist, of course.

 

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Philip Hitti testified before the Anglo-American committee in 1946: "There is no such thing as "Palestine" in history, absolutely not."

The Palestine Mandate (British occupation of Palestine) ended in 1948. Palestine went from being occupied be the British to being occupied by Israel, Jordan, and Egypt.[/size][/i]

In other words, it doesn't exist, of course.

A country does not cease to exist just because it is occupied.

 

[Marc39]

The Palestine Mandate (British occupation of Palestine) ended in 1948.

Palestine went from being occupied be the British to being occupied by Israel, Jordan, and Egypt.

Incorrect.

The British Mandate ended. The Palestine Mandate establishing Palestine as the Jewish homeland, a separate entity, has never terminated, protected by the UN Charter.

Now, you know.

Incorrect.

Israel is a foreign entity inside Palestine.

Now you know.

Incorrect

Middle East historian Bernard Lewis...

For Arabs, the term Palestine was unacceptable. For Muslims it was alien and irrelevant. The main objection for them was that it seemed to assert a separate entity which politically conscious Arabs in Palestine and elsewhere denied. For them there was no such thing as a country called Palestine. The region which the British called Palestine was merely a separated part of a larger whole [Syria]. For a long time organized and articulate Arab political opinion was virtually unanimous on this point.

Now, even you know.

 

[Marc39]

The Palestine Mandate (British occupation of Palestine) ended in 1948. Palestine went from being occupied be the British to being occupied by Israel, Jordan, and Egypt.[/size][/i]

In other words, it doesn't exist, of course.

A country does not cease to exist just because it is occupied.

Palestine does not exist.

Not in the Old Testament.
Not in the New Testament
Not in the Quran
Not in any historical documents or archaeological artifacts from the Biblical era.

 

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In other words, it doesn't exist, of course.

A country does not cease to exist just because it is occupied.

Palestine does not exist.

Not in the Old Testament.
Not in the New Testament
Not in the Quran
Not in any historical documents or archaeological artifacts from the Biblical era.

The United States were not mentioned either.

India was India before it was occupied by the British. It was India while it was occupied. It is still India after the British left. Occupation does not eliminate a country.

Palestine does not cease to exist because it is occupied.

 

[Marc39]

A country does not cease to exist just because it is occupied.

Palestine does not exist.

Not in the Old Testament.
Not in the New Testament
Not in the Quran
Not in any historical documents or archaeological artifacts from the Biblical era.

The United States were not mentioned either.

India was India before it was occupied by the British. It was India while it was occupied. It is still India after the British left. Occupation does not eliminate a country.

Palestine does not cease to exist because it is occupied.

The US did not exist in Biblical times. Nor, Palestine, invented by the Romans, not Arabs, 1500 years after Jews lived on the land and 500 years before Arabs lived there.

 

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Palestine does not exist.

Not in the Old Testament.
Not in the New Testament
Not in the Quran
Not in any historical documents or archaeological artifacts from the Biblical era.

The United States were not mentioned either.

India was India before it was occupied by the British. It was India while it was occupied. It is still India after the British left. Occupation does not eliminate a country.

Palestine does not cease to exist because it is occupied.

The US did not exist in Biblical times. Nor, Palestine, invented by the Romans, not Arabs, 1500 years after Jews lived on the land and 500 years before Arabs lived there.

So the Jews were the only people living in Palestine then?

 

[Marc39]

The United States were not mentioned either.

India was India before it was occupied by the British. It was India while it was occupied. It is still India after the British left. Occupation does not eliminate a country.

Palestine does not cease to exist because it is occupied.

The US did not exist in Biblical times. Nor, Palestine, invented by the Romans, not Arabs, 1500 years after Jews lived on the land and 500 years before Arabs lived there.

So the Jews were the only people living in Palestine then?

Jews are the only surviving people.

The correct historical geographic name of the land is Canaan and Judea, as in "Jewish," which derives from Judea.

Palestine was invented by the Romans 1500 years after Jews arrived.

Arabs arrived from Arabia 2000 years after Jews.

 

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The US did not exist in Biblical times. Nor, Palestine, invented by the Romans, not Arabs, 1500 years after Jews lived on the land and 500 years before Arabs lived there.

So the Jews were the only people living in Palestine then?

Jews are the only surviving people.

The correct historical geographic name of the land is Canaan and Judea, as in "Jewish," which derives from Judea.

Palestine was invented by the Romans 1500 years after Jews arrived.

Arabs arrived from Arabia 2000 years after Jews.

So, before the Arabs arrived Jews were the only people living in Palestine?