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Social networking site Facebook said yesterday that it deleted a page calling for a third "intifada" (uprising) against the state of Israel, claiming the page's users and administrators called for violence.
The page called on citizens of Arab states to demonstrate against Israeli oppression of Palestinians following Friday prayers on May 15.
May 15 is Israel's official independence anniversary: a date Palestinians call the "Naqba," or catastrophe.
Nearly half a million people signed up for the page before the company took it down. Several others have already sprung up to replace it, but none quite as large -- yet.
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