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As Facebook Becomes Tool of Terrorism, What in the World is Mark Zuckerberg Thinking?
Frontpagemagazine ^ | March 28 2011 | Bethany Shondark Murphy

Posted on 03/28/2011 6:39:35 PM PDT by SJackson

Intifada Means War: As Facebook Becomes Tool of Terrorism, What in the World is Mark Zuckerberg Thinking?

Just one month after its launch, the new Facebook page “Third Palestinian Intifada” already boasts over 330,000 members. These members are sharing video and quotes inspiring violence against Israelis and Jews, and its numbers are growing exponentially. One month into the existence of the page, Facebook is silent about the incitement for violence that it is advocating. They insist that while individual posts may advocate violence, the group as a whole does not.

According to Ynet, the creators of the “Third Palestinian Intifada” page got the inspiration to use Facebook as an information gathering point from the Egyptian and Tunisians protestors. Throughout the Middle East, reformers have been using Facebook as an online meeting place to share ideas and information, a way to communicate with one another and organize protests.

The Palestinians that started this group aren’t working toward positive change for themselves or their countrymen. They are working to organize in order to begin a third wave of terror on civilians throughout Israel. They are not working to bring democracy or peace to their citizens, but instead working on bringing death upon others.

Another question to ask is: Has the intifada already begun? Just in the past few weeks, the Fogel family was brutally murdered in their own home; their 3-month-old baby was decapitated sleeping next to her father, who was also stabbed to death. Rockets are falling from Gaza at such a clip that the Israeli government has begun to deploy the “Iron Dome” missile shield to protect civilians in the South. School was canceled for 150,000 children in the Negev because authorities were afraid a rocket would land in a classroom—or strike young students on their way to school. At a busy bus stop in Jerusalem a bomb was placed in a phone booth, killing a British woman and injuring dozens more. This is what the Facebook group’s creators want to continue, only on a wider scale.

As Asaf Romirowsky writes:

Intifada is not limited to the Middle East but has penetrated the halls of US academia. This is demonstrated by individuals like Hatem Bazian, an Arabic lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley who following the War in Iraq stated that “it’s about time that we have an Intifada in this country that changes fundamentally the political dynamics in here.” There is also Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, a professor of the History of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at Georgetown University, who explained simply that, “Intifada is something that Muslims and Palestinians all approve of. It means ‘just get off my back’.”

No one should doubt that Intifada has violent terroristic goals that have been demonstrated by the level of violence used against Israelis since the first and second Intifadas. As a mechanism that justifies all violence in the name of “resistance,” the Intifada has allowed continued violence, including the latest rampage of killings of innocent Israelis in Itamar and now in Jerusalem.

The intifada page calls for the official launch of the violence to begin on May 15, Nakba Day — the day of “catastrophe” — the day that Israel was founded. Members of the group call on Arabs in Gaza, Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) to take up arms with their brothers in Syria, Lebanon, Egypt and Jordan on all of Israel’s borders. They want to rain rockets down onto Israel’s northern and southern borders, bring violence into the homes of families like the Fogels, and incite protests by the Arab citizens inside Israel.

The Facebook group has received significant press in the Arab media, and the number of its supporters has grown by the thousands every day. JPost reports, “The Facebook page has been picked up on jihadi internet forums and promoted. Earlier this month, an al-Qaeda affiliated forum discussed the page’s creation, and urged members to join it, SITE researchers have found.” After the uprisings in Egypt, one man saw Facebook’s role as so vital to the revolution that he named his daughter after the social networking site. The founders of this group hope that Facebook can play this role in their own revolution.

Many in the Western world cheered the use of social media and its unique position to change the societies of these nations. For Palestinians, using social media to organize is not about working toward building a more peace-loving and democratic society. They are not fighting for equal rights for women, humane treatment of gays, the right to vote for their leaders, or for better living and working conditions. The Palestinians are using social media for what they have always been working toward — the destruction of the state of Israel, its Jews, and nothing else.


TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: facebook; intifada; middleeast; zuckerberg1st
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1 posted on 03/28/2011 6:39:37 PM PDT by SJackson
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To: SJackson

The “social networking” entities are all in bed with Dems, and Obama... so expect more of this.


2 posted on 03/28/2011 6:42:19 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
Middle East and terrorism, occasional political and Jewish issues Ping List. High Volume

If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.

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3 posted on 03/28/2011 6:43:12 PM PDT by SJackson (Normal people don't sit cross-legged on the floor and bang on drums, WI State Sen Glenn Grothman (R))
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To: SJackson

Wow, this is all too much. I am getting a bad feeling we have waited too long.


4 posted on 03/28/2011 6:43:26 PM PDT by dforest
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To: indylindy

“we have waited too long”

to what


5 posted on 03/28/2011 6:45:33 PM PDT by Christian Engineer Mass (25ish Cambridge MA grad student. Many younger conservative Christians out there? __ Click my name)
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To: Christian Engineer Mass

To stop this in the usual manner. The mass chaos is just beginning.


6 posted on 03/28/2011 6:47:47 PM PDT by dforest
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To: Cementjungle
The “social networking” entities are all in bed with Dems, and Obama... so expect more of this.

The “social networking” entities are only in bed with the dems as much as the AM radio band is in bed with the dems (via the FCC) but I would hardly consider Rush Limbaugh to be pro-democrat.

I have yet to be banned from Facebook, Myspace, YouTube or Twitter because I bashed the democrat party.

All of our favorite AM radio hosts communicate with their listeners via Facebook and Twitter.

It can go boths ways. Depends on how many of each side participates.

7 posted on 03/28/2011 6:47:56 PM PDT by tsowellfan (http://www.cafenetamerica.com)
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To: Cementjungle

I’m sometimes wish I would keep my mouth shut on FB because of this fact you just stated.

Most of the time, I just can’t keep the old yap shut.


8 posted on 03/28/2011 6:47:56 PM PDT by CommieCutter (Promote Liberal Extinction: Support gay marriage and abortion!)
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To: SJackson
They probably said the same about Ma Bell. But those who say it... consider their age, they're probably well over 40 years old, over 50 and they've peaked at their ability to learn the newer tecnology.

For me the I-Phone scares me. Why? Because I'm 46 years old and never used one. At least not yet. Maybe the I-Phone is above my peak.

9 posted on 03/28/2011 6:51:11 PM PDT by tsowellfan (http://www.cafenetamerica.com)
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To: SJackson

Zuckerberg = Just another self-hating Jew doing everything he can to destroy Israel and the Jewish race. I find him disgusting.


10 posted on 03/28/2011 6:52:17 PM PDT by 2nd amendment mama ( www.2asisters.org | Self defense is a basic human right!)
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To: Cementjungle

“What in the World is Mark Zuckerberg Thinking?”

It’s really simple... There are less than 20 million Jews in the world, there are 1.2 billion people who hate Jews.

Whatever is good for the stock price is good for Mark. Simple numbers.


11 posted on 03/28/2011 6:52:25 PM PDT by MS from the OC (Obama foreign policy"If you're an enemy we're sorry; if you're a friend, you're sorry" Abe Greenwald)
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To: Cementjungle
The “social networking” entities are all in bed with Dems, and Obama... so expect more of this.

Repulsive and true.

I don't understand how anyone of Jewish heritage can side with the modern-day Nazis. But they do, reliably.

12 posted on 03/28/2011 6:54:50 PM PDT by Dr. Sheldon Cooper (If Mohammed were alive today, he wouldnÂ’t be allowed to live within 1000 yards of a school.)
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To: SJackson

Facebook is being used in Moslem countries to expose the names of people who have left Islam for Christianity. I do not know if Facebook is policing this kind of activity.


13 posted on 03/28/2011 6:56:42 PM PDT by cradle of freedom (Long live the Republic !)
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To: MS from the OC
It’s really simple... There are less than 20 million Jews in the world, there are 1.2 billion people who hate Jews.

My gawd, that's horrifyingly insightful.

14 posted on 03/28/2011 6:56:47 PM PDT by Dr. Sheldon Cooper (If Mohammed were alive today, he wouldnÂ’t be allowed to live within 1000 yards of a school.)
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To: MS from the OC
It’s really simple... There are less than 20 million Jews in the world, there are 1.2 billion people who hate Jews.

My gawd, that's horrifyingly insightful.

15 posted on 03/28/2011 6:56:47 PM PDT by Dr. Sheldon Cooper (If Mohammed were alive today, he wouldnÂ’t be allowed to live within 1000 yards of a school.)
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To: SJackson
As Facebook Becomes Tool of Terrorism, What in the World is Mark Zuckerberg Thinking?
by, Bethany Shondark Murphy

Quite appropriately, Bethany Shondark Murphy, thinks that Zuckerberg should put his Jewish heritage above politics and the destruction of the Jewish state and the Jewish people, but like Soros, apparently Zuckerberg is a *open society - new world order* far-left billionaire in favor of revolution or the *Arab Spring*.

16 posted on 03/28/2011 6:59:28 PM PDT by onyx (If you truly support Sarah Palin and want to be on her busy ping list, let me know!)
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To: 2nd amendment mama

Zuckerberg = Just another self-hating Jew doing everything he can to destroy Israel and the Jewish race. I find him disgusting.
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I’ve come to realize that they are the most dangerous people in the world.


17 posted on 03/28/2011 7:01:19 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: SJackson

He’s mostly in his 20’s, arrogant, went to Hardyharvard, slicked 3 guys out of their idea, wants to make a lot of money and tell himself he’s helping the world so he can sleep at night.

The intelligentsia and CA are mostly all demo-lib.

All the fascination with fb as some “technology” is by non-programmers, programmers know it’s just programming. FB is by no means rocket science. The amazing thing is how people give up their privacy by putting their own info out there (nuts).

Zberg’s early comments on how idiotic people were for putting their personal info on his site are very hushed up.


18 posted on 03/28/2011 7:04:22 PM PDT by PieterCasparzen (Huguenot)
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To: SJackson
What makes you think Mark Zuckerberg thinks anything? He is nothing more than a pimply-faced jerkoff who had a good idea and made a couple billion dollars, which he will lose in the next few years as his easy money returns to its rightful owners.
20 posted on 03/28/2011 7:11:21 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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