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Last update - 15:56 15/09/2009
Syria bans Facebook to reclaim Golan Heights
By Jack Khoury, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: Israel News, Syria 

Syria will launch a campaign demanding a boycott of Facebook because the social networking site permits Israelis living on the Golan Heights to list "Israel" as their country of residence, according to a report in Tuesday's Arab language newspaper Al Quds al Arabi.

Damascus will also deny its citizens access to Facebook as part of the protest, the newspaper reported.

Until recent months, Druze residents of the Golan were permitted to list Syria as their country of residence. Yet residents of Golan towns launched a protest with Facebook demanding that the policy be changed to allow residents the option of listing either country in their personal profile.
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Aside from the controversy over the Golan Heights, the newspaper reported that Syrian authorities also restricted access to Facebook due to concerns that Israeli Web users would try to initiate contact with Syrian citizens.

Many Israeli Facebook users have already used the site's chat feature to correspond with Syrians. Authorities in Damascus have also banned access to YouTube.
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  1.   Golan Heights ARE in Syria 15:35  |  David 15/09/09
  2.   can`t be clearer 15:51  |  Charles 15/09/09
  3.   Syria used the Golan to launch three wars of annihilation against 15:55  |  Eitan 15/09/09
  4.   David # 1 15:59  |  Arnold 15/09/09
  5.   missing you ? 16:08  |  gordon 15/09/09
  6.   golan heights are Israel 16:09  |  Jochai Rubinstein 15/09/09
  7.   Hopefully the rest of the Arab States will do the same 16:14  |  Chris Linthwaite 15/09/09
  8.   "Golan Hieghts ARE in Syria" 16:20  |  Steven 15/09/09
  9.   Loss of the Golan is Syria`s reparation to Israel. 16:21  |  Josiah J. Ben David 15/09/09
  10.   Syrian boycott 16:28  |  Florencia 15/09/09
  11.   The Golan has been under Syrian rule between the years 1946 and 16:30  |  Bernard 15/09/09
  12.   UN Security Council Resolution 497 18:25  |  Murray 15/09/09
  13.   To Eitan 19:23  |  Frank 15/09/09
  14.   Shooting oneself in your foot 19:46  |  Mark Lincoln 15/09/09
  15.   # 12 murray 19:54  |  Axel 15/09/09
  16.   Bernard from Bern 20:03  |  Walid 15/09/09
  17.   # 11 bernard 20:59  |  Axel 15/09/09
  18.   strange 21:22  |  syrian opinion 15/09/09
  19.   Walid #16 22:39  |  Bra Sein 15/09/09
  20.   Golan Heights are in Syria 22:53  |  Me 15/09/09
  21.   the hell with the extremests. 01:40  |  thomas 16/09/09
  22.   Syria`s illegal occupation ended in 1967 01:57  |  Gee 16/09/09
  23.   Golan heights is and will all ways be syrian 02:42  |  a good jew 16/09/09
  24.   whoever makes best use of the land ... 03:21  |  Jasper 16/09/09
  25.   Walid, n° 16 11:12  |  Lebanese Citizen 16/09/09
  26.   It is very different... 16:04  |  Silvienne 16/09/09
  27.   To Walid 16:06  |  Rob 16/09/09
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