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Israel, Palestine Wage Web War
An anonymous reader writes "A war has erupted on the Internet between Israel and Palestine, alongside the war being fought on the ground in Gaza. A new report claims that a group called the 'DNS Team' has defaced an Israeli Website, with anti-Israel graphical images — one in a series of instances of 'e-vandalism.' This sort of e-vandalism, says the author, is not only an inconvenience for Webmasters, but many of the images contain malware links and 'redirects or Flash links to Jihadist forums or blogs.' However, while the Jihadist forums are registered in Saudi Arabia, they are hosted by companies like Layered Tech and SoftLayer in Plano, Texas. On the Israeli side, 'A fascinating approach over the last few days is being made by an Israeli Website, "Help Israel Win," which provides a download so your PC can become part of a worldwide pro-Israeli botnet. So far 7,786 have joined, already a fairly powerful global computing force...'"
But its not "joining on purpose", more like under-conscious submitting of the self to the malware overlords.
Since when any person helping "Israel" in any way has been declared "enemy combatant"?
Was there ever any non-Muslim declared as "enemy combatant"?
I do not believe in karma. "Funny"=-6. Do good and forbid evil. Yours, Oft-Offtopic Flamebaiting Troll.
To be fair, considering what the Jewish people have gone through in the last few thousand years, I'd wager the siege mentality predates the state of Israel.
No doubt. But being invaded three different times isn't very likely to end that siege mentality is it?
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Israel has every citizen sign up for the military but that doesn't mean they require everyone to go frontlines and risk their lives. There are so many people in the army that they don't need everyone to be frontline and there are other places where people serve more benefit. It's more like requiring people to take PE up to and through college.
The last 3 comments and "muslim comparisons" of the guy are off in varying ways, the rest characterize the PLO and other violent palestinian orgnizations accurately (not all muslims). At some point Palestinians are going to realize that Jews/Israeli's are Palestinians too, and at that point it will show how stupid all of this crap is.
Fuck random missile shooters.
What changed under Obama? Nothing Good
Fixed it for ya.
550 Palestinian deaths to 5 Israeli deaths is so lopsided that it has to be stopped.
Are you suggesting there is a quota, and in order to continue to pursue the aggressors, they need to sacrifice a few people of their own?
Learn about Photography Basics.
The very first act of Israel as a nascent state was to attack Egypt. And there had never historically (before '48) been a State of Israel, all they had was vague mutterings of a "promised land". Where was this promised land - Palestine ! Who promised it ? The imaginary guy in the sky. Fuck worrying about intelligent design, what about the Israelis, murdering people to preserve a homeland that they basically promised themselves. There is a good reason why the diaspora happened - because they are a bunch of trouble makers and always have been. If it wasn't for what happened during WW2, they would have had their asses handed to them years ago. They've been playing the victim for far too long IMHO. Even christ freaked out because they used the temple as a branch of the local savings and loan.
I don't care what religion anybody subscribes to, but I do object to them starting fights every time you turn your back.
Dear Israeli man posting AC (at least, you sound Israeli),
Nobody is going to listen. The world has gone to the dirty hippies who think that suffering automatically gives one a moral upper ground, and who therefore won't root for Israel until the Jews have been halfway wiped out again, at which point the whole cycle will restart. Just finish off Hamas and write the history books like a good winner.
Pallywood = The exploitation of grief.
Where either the dead are used over and over again, pulled out of the same buildings, and/or the same person/people are trumped in front of the cameras for shock value. That's Pallywood.
Om, nomnomnom...
Actually, Jews, Christians, Muslims, and Mormons, all worship the same God, they just disagree on who was the last prophet.
I respectfully disagree.
The Christian God is Triune, and this "last prophet" is actually the Christian God. The fact that Jews, Muslims and Christians disagree regarding Christ means that they have differing opinions regarding the essential nature of God.
Muslims worship a God which is not triune. Therefore, the Muslim God cannot be the Christian God.
You call the Israeli Labor and Kadima parties extremists? Seriously? Have you never heard of Shas, UTJ, and the other settler and ultra-Orthodox parties?
I know it sounds nice to say "both sides have too many extremists", but if you visit Israel it quickly becomes apparent that Israel isn't run by extremists. People inside Israel live normal lives when the wars stop, while groups like Hamas dedicate their time and effort to making sure that, for the Palestinians, the war never stops.
Please don't lump Hindus with other lunatics. Read your history write. India - Hindus - is the only country where Jews were not persecuted. If Hindus are killing Muslims in India, ask where did these Muslims come from? Please read, understand, think before you post.
I lived in Israel for a year, have relatives there, this does not qualify me as an expert, but I have an opinion.
My opinion is that the conflict between Gaza Strip and Israel is artificial. I believe that the countries that share their borders with Israel: Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt and those that are very near Israel, let's say "a rocket's flight": Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, this countries in between them have so much unused space, that given the amount of help that Gaza gets from them, it would have been cheaper simply to relocate the entire Gaza population into any of those countries. There is so much unused territory, that rationally speaking, the continuation of this conflict makes no sense. So what I think is happening, is that many of these bordering countries are interested in the continued conflict around them. It is really a perfect way to maintain the state of alarm, to push forward religious agenda of promoting Islam around the world and also very importantly, it is a great way to create more kamikaze fighters, who will not hesitate to strap a bomb to themselves and kill some heretics and go to the Muslim heaven (you know, the 72 virgins and such.)
So I actually think that Israel is just a convenient way of achieving the above goals, if tomorrow all citizens of that country disappeared, the conflict would have to continue. There would always be a way to continue it, it is always easy to come up with other conflicts. Iraq has Sunnis and Shiites - here is a perfect example of why it will make no difference whether Israel exists as an entity or not, there will be conflict because it is profitable for many involved parties to maintain it.
My point is that this conflict in the Middle East will not stop no matter what happens with Israel itself. This conflict is really about control of oil, control of money, control of people through religion, promotion of idea of Islam and so on.
You can't handle the truth.
That's a typical naive post expressing the idea that it's all about childish attachment to "holy sites". The Gazans are fighting back because they have been under siege for a year and a half. Jerusalem isn't even in Gaza.
I don't ask myself questions such as "what if I were Israel?", "what if I were Apartheid South Africa?", "what if I were Genghis Khan?", "what if I were the British Empire?". Such questions tend to reduce insight into the situation and empathy for the victims, not increase them.
If the Israeli government seriously wanted to commit genocide it would have gotten it over with by now.
Oh puh-leeze. It's no conspiracy theory. The bottom line is what they are doing is systemmatically driving the Arabs off their own land and killing those that resist or won't move. That is basically genocide. This is exactly what was done to the American indians but of course, it's not called "genocide" by the invading army and their media. But it's the same thing. The winners of the conflict get to frame it however they want, but dead people are still dead.
1) You are wrong. Palestine has been mainly Arab for centuries.
2) You are wrong. This is not the first invasion of Gaza.
Also, the Palestinians did not attack Europe and America before being occupied by a colonial force sent from there. In just the same way, the French did not attack Germany before being occupied by it. In just the same way, Tibet did not attack China before being occupied and colonised by it. In all cases, there has been subsequent resistance.