On Monday, Gidon Shaviv, a senior research analyst for the media watchdog group CAMERA and a popular presence on social media, sent a tweet with a hashtag that quickly began trending on Twitter, garnering thousands of submissions from Twitter users around the world.
I think I just came up with the ultimate political junkie hashtag challenge… #ExplainTheMiddleEastIn6Words
— Gidon Shaviv (@GidonShaviv) January 3, 2016
The #ExplainTheMiddleEastIn6Words challenge went viral within minutes in both English and Hebrew, with people chiming in from all over the world to try their hands at expressing the essence of the Middle East in just six words.
Breaking Israel News rounded up the best ones.
Tweet redacted for undefined security reasons #ExplainTheMiddleEastIn6Words
— Rabbi Josh Yuter (@JYuter) January 4, 2016
Lovely weather, shame about the war #ExplainTheMiddleEastIn6Words
— Clarion Project (@clarionproject) January 4, 2016
Nobody cared before oil and Jews #ExplainTheMiddleEastIn6Words
— Elli Fischer (@Adderabbi) January 4, 2016
The Mossad stole my shoe again #ExplainTheMiddleEastIn6Words
— Real Aussie Dave (@Israellycool) January 3, 2016
Everybody’s holy land, except those people #ExplainTheMiddleEastIn6Words
— Ron Fournier (@ron_fournier) January 3, 2016
By far the most popular tweet came from Gidon Shaviv himself.
BDS Leader Studies At Israeli University #ExplainTheMiddleEastIn6Words
— Gidon Shaviv (@GidonShaviv) January 3, 2016
Israeli politician Dani Dayan even contributed, with a tweet in Hebrew:
ההתנחלויות – סיבת הסכסוך שהתחיל בטרם הוקמו. #הסבר_המזהת_בשש_מילים
— Dani Dayan (@dandayan) January 4, 2016
His tweet translated to, “The settlements – the reason for a conflict which began before they were built.”
Breaking Israel News got in on the fun with a few tweets of its own:
John Kerry always makes things worse #ExplainTheMiddleEastIn6Words
— Breaking Israel News (@BINAlerts) January 4, 2016
Please come back, Kim and Kanye #ExplainTheMiddleEastIn6Words
— Breaking Israel News (@BINAlerts) January 4, 2016
The hashtag is still trending on Twitter, proving that the Middle East is, indeed, a complicated place.
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Source: Israel in the News
