JERUSALEM: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu´s eldest, Yair, tweeted onSunday that Facebook blocked his page for 24 hours over apparentanti-Muslim posts and called the leading social network a “dictatorship”.
In a message posted Thursday on his Facebook page, Yair Netanyahu hadcalled for “all Muslims (to) leave” Israel.
“Do you know where there are no attacks? In Iceland and in Japan wherecoincidentally there are no Muslims,” the prime minister´s son wrote.
In another post he wrote that there were only two possible solutions forpeace, either “all Jews leave (Israel) or all Muslims leave”.
“I prefer the second option,” he added.
His comments came after two soldiers were shot dead on Thursday at acentral West Bank bus station near a settlement.
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On the same day, a baby prematurely delivered after his mother was shot andwounded in a separate attack nearby on December 9 also died.
Facebook deleted Yair Netanyahu´s posts, prompting him to take to Twitterto criticise the social networking giant, calling it a “dictatorship ofthought”.
Critics of the prime minister have often attacked Yair as a grown manliving in the premier´s residence despite having no official role andbenefitting from a bodyguard, a driver and other perks.
They say the parents of the 27-year-old are grooming him for futurepolitical power in an attempt to establish a ruling dynasty. – APP / AFP
