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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...'"
Since when any person helping "Israel" in any way has been declared "enemy combatant"?
Was there ever any non-Muslim declared as "enemy combatant"?
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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.
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.
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.
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.