To: His Excellency, President Bashar Assad
From: Pesach Benson, HonestReporting
Subject: Thank You, President Assad
Dear President Assad,
Thank you, your excellency, for overreacting to HonestReporting's successful campaign to allow Golan Facebookers to register as Israeli.
Facebook quietly made some reasonable changes, but media interest only took off when your regime decided to boycott Facebook over the issue. HonestReporting has now been quoted in newspapers like the Daily Telegraph,the LA Times and even CNN, which featured this video.
Although your excellency's regime has actually blocked Facebook since 2007 because Syrians might interact with Israelis, I nevertheless see that your wife remains the public face of your government on the international social media platform.
I therefore invite the honorable Madame Asma al Assad to join the conversation at our group, Facebook, Golan Residents Live in Israel, not Syria, as well as HonestReporting's Facebook page, and interact with members of any nationality or religion the first lady deigns appropriate.
Moreover, if your excellency sees fit, Syrians on Twitter may wish to follow @MediaBackspin and @HonestReporting. I and my colleague, Alex Margolin, who tweet from those accounts respectively, are dual Israeli-American citizens.
Pesach Benson
Editor, MediaBackspin
