down ding for not using a no follow link, and for linking to Fatah period.

re: #1 Randall Gross

Fatah is who the United States officially considers to represent the Palestinians, so their facebook page can’t be that bad can it?
Anyhoo, let the downdings fly, just bringing this to your attention.

• Israel and The Occupied Territories - U.S. Department of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2013

• Primer on Palestine, Israel and the Arab-Israeli Conflict - Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP)

• Crisis Guide: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict - Council on Foreign Relations

• The Palestinian Authority’s Government - Council on Foreign Relations (a bit outdated now—from 2006—but still informative)

• Backgrounders - Council on Foreign Relations; covers numerous groups and individuals including (but not limited to) Hamas, Khaled Meshal, Hezbollah, and Hassan Nasrallah

• The Palestinians, the PLO, and Political Representation: the Search for Palestinian Self-Determination - International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence (ICSR)

re: #2 HamSandwich

Fatah is who the United States officially considers to represent the Palestinians, so their facebook page can’t be that bad can it?

Seriously? Did the U.S. decide that unilaterally?

Who is the official representative of the Palestinians according to Israel? Didn’t Israel recognize the PLO as such in 1993? Is Fatah not part of the PLO? Is Fatah not the de facto overseer of the West Bank? Is Mahmoud Abbas not President of the State of Palestine AND a member of Fatah?

So then using your logic I guess Israel must also agree that Fatah’s Facebook page “can’t be that bad”, right? How stupid does that sound? (Hint, it sounds about as stupid you claiming the same thing about the U.S.)

*SMH*

I must be missing something because my read is everyone in this thread agrees with one another but don’t realize they do. :)

I thought I had the upding downding thing figured out for LGF. It’s not exactly like Slashdot where because I see folks downding well-written posts that argue from the right so I restricted my ding-ing to music until recently.

I +’d this page because I thought that the fact that a murderer was being honoured was something worth knowing about. I even spent some time (unsuccessfully) trying to translate the page.

re: #5 Souliren

I must be missing something because my read is everyone in this thread agrees with one another but don’t realize they do. :)

I thought I had the upding downding thing figured out for LGF. It’s not exactly like Slashdot where because I see folks downding well-written posts that argue from the right so I restricted my ding-ing to music until recently.

I +’d this page because I thought that the fact that a murderer was being honoured was something worth knowing about. I even spent some time (unsuccessfully) trying to translate the page.

If you look at Ham Sandwich’s previous Page (there’s a link right under the downdings), you’ll see it also received up and down dings, and if you read the comments, you’ll see some reasons for them. There is some unarticulated carryover to this thread, I think. There’s more background on his or her Pages before that. The Sandwich is getting some pushback.

re: #4 CuriousLurker

The offical representitive for the Palestinian people posts this and you deflect. Shame on you.

Can you guess who this poster actually is?

Yes, it’s “rosiee,” back again for the third time.

re: #7 HamSandwich

The offical representitive for the Palestinian people posts this and you deflect. Shame on you.

Shouts the pot at the kettle… LOL

re: #8 Charles Johnson

Can you guess who this poster actually is?

Yes, it’s “rosiee,” back again for the third time.

I thought is was someone of that sort.