Which is why Israel's government rushed to fan the flames of conflict, a "false flag" move. As Israel had hoped, clashes broke out between Israel's fully armed police and military occupation forces, and frustrated occupied Palestinian civilians.
Enter the latest chapter of this false flag move: blaming social media for stirring the emotions of Palestine's children.
Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely traveled to Silicon Valley, California, to meet with Israeli Consul General to the Pacific Northwest Region, Andy David (pictured above).
Following this meeting, Hotovely's media advisor issued this announcement:
"As part of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' campaign against online incitement, Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely met with YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki and with Juniper [cq] Downes, Director of Public Policy at Google at the company's Silicon Valley offices.
"Deputy Minister Hotovely was briefed on the companies' system for identifying video clips which incite to violence.
"In the meetings, Hotovely raised the problem of incitement which goads small children to go out and stab innocents: 'The daily stabbings in Israel are a result of young boys and girls who are indoctrinated from an early age in the Palestinian education system and through social media. We are engaged daily in confronting incitement to violence, a task which can benefit greatly from the cooperation of those companies that are involved in social media.'"
Richard Silverstein had this skeptical reaction to this amazing announcement:
"Bibi Netanyahu has been blaming U.S. internet companies like Facebook for the current Palestinian uprising. I've taken to calling it the 'Facebook Intifada.' Now there's a new Silicon Valley target.
"Today, Israel's deputy foreign minister, Tzipi Hotovely, who's devoutly wished to see Israel rebuild the Holy Temple (thereby destroying the Haram al Sharif), announced (in Hebrew), (English here) that she'd met with YouTube's CEO and Google's director of public policy at its Silicon Valley campus.
"During this meeting, according to a Maariv article, Hotovely schooled the executives about the ways in which pro-Palestine propaganda infects the internet and incites impressionable young Palestinian children to knife innocent victims.
"What struck me about the article was the conclusion, in which Hotovely says that Google agreed to create a formal mechanism enabling formal cooperation between the foreign ministry and the company regarding the issue of incitement as played out in YouTube's video content. In other words, she implied that Google would collaborate with Israel on identifying and removing videos that 'incited' violence against Israel."
Alternet added an editor's correction to its story on the Israeli government release:
"Google released a statement in response to the Government of Israel's claim of a censorship agreement:
"'Following media reports about a meeting last week between Google / YouTube executives and the Israeli Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, we wanted to clarify that this meeting was one of many that we have with policymakers from different countries to explain our policies on controversial content, flagging and removals. The Israeli Ministry for Foreign Affairs has corrected its original announcement which, in error, suggested there had been an agreement with Google to establish 'a mechanism to monitor online materials.'"
Silverstein analyzes the version of the story which first broke in an Israeli publication, Maariv. He reports:
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