“An Israeli minister has asked Apple Inc. to remove an Arabic-language application from its iTunes store that calls for a Palestinian uprising,” Ari Rabinovitch reports for Reuters.
“In a letter to Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Public Diplomacy Minister Yuli-Yoel Edelstein said the application ‘ThirdIntifada’ — a reference to a future Palestinian uprising — passed on information about protests, some violent, planned — passed on information about protests, some violent, planned against Israel,” Rabinovitch reports. “Edelstein said the developers of the application had opened a similar page on Facebook three months ago that called for an uprising against Israel through the use of lethal force. Edelstein said he complained to the social network which removed the page.”
Rabinovitch reports, “Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said the creation of the Apple application and the Facebook page marked a new pattern in attempts to provoke violent attacks against the state. ‘Companies like this that have a global reach also have a responsibility, and they are aware of this responsibility, and I am sure that Apple will act in the same way (as Facebook),’ Ayalon told Israel’s Army Radio.”
Read more in the full article here.
Along with it let’s remove all of the hundreds oh holocaust movies. Who owns us movie makers?
FTB,
Just answer a very simple question, on what basis was Israel granted that land?!!! How did they take it? Egypt was involved, Syria was involved and I dunno who is also involved….that was right in the begining. But later, which is just few years after that, Palestinians had no one with them, they were by themselves and all they had was stones. The bombs and rockets ur talking about came later with Hamas. But until today, Israel still kill innocent unarmed people. Have you heard of Mohammad al dorra? The kid!!!! Do u know how was he killed? It was ashamed, A BIG SHAME for humanity. He was with his father hiding behind a wall and begging the Israeli troops to stop firing on them. They had no weapons. Even ambulance cars were denied to reach him for help. Israel failed big time because they always made sure nothing goes public from all their crucial acts and this was one footage that managed to reach the public media and fade all their claims of being in a position of just protecting themselves.
In case u didn’t see it yet, there u go. No references no talking, the video speaks of itself:
http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=/&gl=US#/watch?v=QUTwGnRzXos
since your link doesn’t work… you posted the mobile link which isn’t working..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_al-Durrah_incident
again i’m using the site you used.
Israel took responsibility for the “death” at first.
then over the course of many years… they withdrew it.
There were conflicting reports, footage of after the shots… disappeared after being edited for TV. First France 2 says 27 minutes of footage… then when they go to court, only 18 minutes were made. claimed there never was 27 minutes.
yet one of the guys that reviewed all the footage, adds a note at the 24 minute mark… wait… thought there was only 18?
Then there is the multiple claimed times of the incident… The cameraman said noon, boy was at the hospital at 10… then 3.
then there was the news on Air reporting it a totally different time.
Then there was the footage of his Funeral… with Full shadows, yet they said it was a nighttime funeral.
Then there is the footage of other kids in the area doing the same thing, getting shot… then getting up and re staging again.
There WAS footage after he got shot, but France 2 erased it.
there have been french courts saying IDF was not responsible, then saying they are… then going back to saying no.
Odds are the truth will never be known.
Just read the article… It goes both ways.
Hey hey hey…hold on there man. U have crossed the limits!!! Are you by any chance saying that this whole thing was faked??!!!! Cuz of that was ur intension, let me assure u and everyone here that it is true and totaly true. I met his parents. His mum and dad here in UAE. They were invited by the UAE government to meet students in universities and schools all over the country. Plus, why would u cre if the funeral was morning or evening or whatever?!!!! What’s this?? It’s simply another miserable attempt from Israel to hide their cruel and inhuman acts. Aren’t they the ones who killed people on that ship from Greece?!!! Oh wait, they had weapons!!! BS. plus, are u telling me that the guy is alive all this time but Israel and their media couldn’t come up with a pic for him?!!!! Hahahahaha…nice joke.
Fadi:
As usual for you, your posts are filled with emotion (often echoing the known excesses of Palestinian propaganda) with little concern for understanding what the actual truth is. Fadi, do you even care to understand the truth in this situation, even if it contradicts what you have been told or wish to believe?
The reality is that when you have two armed, opposing forces engaged in a firefight with live ammunition (as was the substantiated case in the Muhammad al-Durrah incident), taking place in an area containing a civilian population, deaths of civilians are likely. As long as armed attacks by Palestinians on the Israeli IDF and/or Israeli civilians continue and the attackers retreat into Palestinian civilian communities, there will likely be continued deaths of innocents caught in the crossfire.
Now, you can choose to blindly believe what you have been told (I assume you were not personally present to observe the events of September 30, 2000 in Gaza), or as FTB has suggested, you can read the detailed, balanced analysis presented in:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_al-Durrah_incident
As the Wikipedia entry points out, we will probably never know what actually happened to Muhammad al-Durrah, but there there is reasonable, credible evidence that he was NOT killed by Israeli forces.
Have many other Palestinian civilians been killed by the IDF over the long, sad history of this conflict? – Yes. However, these deaths are almost always the inadvertent result of the battle conditions described above.
Have many Israeli civilians been killed by Palestinian militants/terrorists over the long, sad history of this conflict? – Yes. However, these deaths are almost always the result of targeted attacks on civilians by Palestinians (rocket attacks, suicide bombings, attacks on families in settlements, etc).
War is hell and bad things will continue to happen on both sides until there is a genuine desire by most Palestinians to accept a Jewish State of Israel sitting peacefully alongside a Palestinian state. The Jewish State of Israel is one of the most, vibrant, successful and progressive democracies on the face of the Earth, and whether you like it or not, it’s not going to disappear anytime soon.
So I again ask you Fadi, are you willing to utter the six words “I will accept a Jewish State”? And perhaps more importantly, are you willing to advocate this moderate approach to your Palestinian brethren? In my opinion, that’s the best way for you to bring your dream of Palestinian statehood to reality – a third Intifada will be decidedly counterproductive to that goal, and as you’ve agreed, an App advocating it has no place in the Apple App Store.