From the JPost:
Ma'aleh Adumim resident Julian Czarny woke up recently to discover that he lived in "Palestine" - at least according to the popular Internet social networking site Facebook.Facebook no longer allows members from Ma'aleh Adumim, Ariel, Betar Illit and other settlements over the Green Line to list their hometowns as situated in Israel, but instead provides only a preset location, with their country listed as "Palestine."
The JPost article is not shy about its opinion on the matter. I find it interesting that these settlers who DO NOT LIVE WITHIN THE RECOGNIZED BORDERS of Israel expect they should be listed as being in Israel.
They claim that Facebook is discriminating against Jews living in settlements and that "the supposedly liberal managers of Facebook [are] unilaterally [changing] the map of Israel in such a way that takes no account of the realities on the ground." I say to them, the reality on the ground is that YOU DON'T LIVE IN ISRAEL. Your government has occupied territories belonging to another group of people, but these territories are not within ANY recognized borders of Israel. If anything, the Israeli government is unilaterally changing the map of the region and forcing a reality on another nation.
I'm so sick of this shit.
