| From Pajamas Media's Tatler: |
Remember that “Third Palestinian Intifada” facebook page we and other bloggers were picking on a few days back? The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) translated it and several other similar intifada facebook pages that they found, and discovered what amounts to a socially networked invasion plan. The means: Get all the Palestinians scattered all over the world to return to Israel at once, on May 15, 2011, to overwhelm the Jewish state.
Facebook took the “Third Intifada” page down this week, but several others with allied messages remain live, and I’m sure the folks behind the “Third Intifada” page have already set up an alternative. As MEMRI notes, May 15th is the 63rd anniversary of the establishment of modern Israel. Not all of the pages that MEMRI found are as clear in threatening violence, but they all share the same goal, which is to destroy Israel, and they all share the same date: May 15.
All of this takes on some additional weight when you consider the following. In Islamic apocalyptic thinking, the Mahdi (the awaited 12th imam who will, according to this line of thinking, Islamicize the entire world) will not return until Jerusalem is in Muslim hands. And Iran, an aggressively radical Islamist state run by a regime that is known to be strongly influenced by this apocalyptic world view, is pushing Mahdi propaganda right now.
| It will be interesting to see the proportion of enthusiastic "Like" clickers to those who act on May 15th. Well done yet again, MEMRI! |
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