Palestine War Goes On in Facebook

Via jpost.com - “Palestine” appeared on the original list of countries from which users could choose when registering for the site, until Facebook “mysteriously took it away” in October 2006. Members of the “Palestine” network were outraged. Huge war is going in the Middle East and this time it is the internet war.

The conflict famous conflict of Israel and Palestine has now moved over to the social networking daddy Facebook. Apparently, there are over 12,000 registered users who are a part of the Palestine network on Facebook. Similarly, there are about 65,000 users who are participants of the Israeli network.As is the case with any of these networks, both these networks are open to global users.

Facebook has taken this controversy of whether Palestine is a country or not to an international level.

A Lebanese Palestine called Catherine Batruni, “How could Palestine not be a country?”. He posted on the network,”Where do they think PALESTINIANS come from?”. There is another palestine network member who wrote on Facebook, which network should she join.

Habash opened the petition by quoting, “I find it extremely offensive that Facebook does not acknowledge Palestine as a nation. Clearly, such acts are deemed anti-Palestinian”.

Anoher member called Shumailla Zareen posted, “How unfortunate … Facebook is interfering in politics … (just strengthens those so-called ‘conspiracy theories’ we all love to hate!) Hope this works!”.

There are many Facebook groups like ‘The Official Petition to get Palestine listed as a Country”, ‘Against delisting Palestine from Facebook’ which have collectively addressed this issue.

Post pressure from various Palestinian petitions and letters Facebook re-added Palestine to the list of countries in the beginning of 2007. However, still no one is aware of why Facebok had removed Palestine from the list of countries.

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