Following the February ouster of Egypt’s longstanding President Hosni Mubarak, calls have been circulating in Egypt and throughout the region for a ‘Third Intifada’ to begin May 15.LIKE THE TURKISH FLOTILLA, THIS IS ANOTHER JIHADIST-LEFTIST ATTEMPT TO DELEGITIMIZE ISRAEL.
"Unlike the first two Palestinian uprisings, the proposed Third Intifada is meant to involve the entire Arab world," Egyptian journalist and political analyst Abdelhalim Kandil told IPS.
It began with the appearance of a Facebook.com page in early March calling for a ‘Third Intifada’ against the ongoing Israeli occupation of Palestinian land. The page, reportedly founded by Arab pro- Palestinian groups, set the launch date for May 15 - the day on which hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were driven from their homes in 1948 to make way for the nascent state of Israel.
The page attracted some 230,000 members within two weeks, prompting Israeli officials to lodge a complaint with the popular California-based social-networking website. On Mar. 29, Facebook.com removed the page - which had at that point surpassed the 500,000-member mark - claiming that its contents were found to "promote violence".
The page was almost immediately replaced with several copycat pages, however, which reiterated calls for "the liberation of Palestine from the [Mediterranean] Sea to the [Jordan] River" and "the return of Palestinian refugees to their homes in historical Palestine" in accordance with U.N. Security Council Resolution 194 of 1948.
An Arabic-language website called the ‘Third Palestinian Intifada’ (www.3rdintifada.com) appeared soon afterward, providing a general plan of action. The site calls for peaceful protests on Friday and Saturday (May 13 and 14) at Israeli embassies and consulates worldwide, including those in western capitals, "to express our rage about the ongoing occupation of Palestine and the expulsion of millions of Palestinians from their rightful homes".
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