What did people talk about the most last year, in 2015? The little Gaza Strip made the top ten in 2014. But then, that was because Israel was pummeling it into the ground with many missiles and bombs. How do we know it was such a major topic of conversation? Facebook has a new feature–telling us its users are talking about most.
As of the third quarter in 2015, Facebook had 1.55 billion users. That’s more than one fifth of the world’s population, even counting babies! Facebook analysts figured out what were the main topics that users discussed on Facebook from January 1 to December 1 in 2014. They made two lists. For Facebook users throughout the world, the “Conflict in Gaza” was the sixth most talked about topic in the world. For Facebook users only in the U.S., the “Conflict in Gaza” was the seventh most talked about topic. That’s partly why I post so often about the Israeli-Palestinians conflict. This little piece of land and fairly small number of people continue to be very important to the rest of the world. The Arab world’s perceived mistreatment of Palestinians by the occupying power, the State of Israel, still energizes radical Muslims, such as Al-Qaeda and now the ISIS group, to inflict so many terrorist acts against individuals and nations that are sympathetic to, or even support, Israel. I don’t think such terrorism will ever go away as long as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict remains unresolved. To resolved it could help.
But now there is an even more important conflict going on nearby, and the world has been discussing it even more. Facebook analysts examined topics most discussed on Facebook from January 1 to December 1 in 2015. They discovered that the “Syrian Civil War and Refugee Crisis” was the third most talked about topic on Facebook that year. This war has been going on since the beginning of Arab Spring, in early 2011. Over 250,000 people have been killed, and millions of Syrians have fled their homes to become refugees in camps in Lebanon and Jordan with most of them immigrating illegally to Europe.
I believe that Arab Spring eventually will result in democracy being established in nations in North Africa and the Middle and that this is indicated in at least one very graphic Bible prophecy. It is a major focus in my next book that I am writing. I intimated about it in my book Warrior from Heaven that was published in early 2009, two years before Arab Spring began. This book about the endtimes is written in a journalistic style in the present tense, as if the writer is there observing what is happening. Here is an excerpt about this subject from that book on p. 6:
But, like the old Roman Empire, this ten-nation confederacy is divided into two parts: a western branch and an eastern branch. Five kingdoms are located in its western branch, which is Europe, and the other five kingdoms are located in its eastern branch, which is the Middle East and North Africa. The location of the line of demarcation between these two branches is comparable to that of the old Roman Empire.
The form of government of each of these ten kingdoms is a monarchial and constitutional democracy. After the creation of the United States of America (USA) as a democratic republic—in which the majority rules, yet individual rights are recognized and honored—that model of governance spread throughout much of the world until elements of it were incorporated into these state governments of the Middle East and North Africa, similar to the state governments of Europe.
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