Facebook, which unwittingly had dropped itself smack in the middle of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, reversed itself Monday and now is allowing Jewish settlers in the West Bank to list themselves as residents of Israel, not a country called "Palestine."
Users of the social networking Web site who live in Maale Adumim, Ariel and other large Jewish settlements in the West Bank protested when Facebook automatically listed "Palestine" as their hometown, the Jerusalem Post reported.
A settlers group accused the California-based company of having a political agenda.
"I was surprised and disappointed to find that my hometown of Ariel is listed in Facebook as being part of a country called 'Palestine,"' Ari Zimmerman wrote in a posting on Facebook, Reuters reported. "I am a citizen of Israel, as are all of the other residents of Ariel. We do not live in 'Palestine,' nor does anyone else."
I would be upset too. Facebook can't change where a person lives just to pacify a certain group. There is a Palestinian group on Facebook now celebrating the killer who brutally murdered young students at Mercaz Harav Yeshiva in Jerusalem. Why does Facebook allow this? Maybe the same reason they originally listed Israeli groups residence as "Palestine".
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