Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Gaza War Also Being Waged In Cyberspace

From Yahoo News/McClatchy:

JERUSALEM — On the day that an Israeli artillery strike hit his neighborhood in Gaza City , sending a hail of shrapnel through his house and his uncle's, Sameh Akram Habeeb went online and filed a bleak report:

"Thanks to God, we all safe but I don't know what will happen next," Habeeb, 23, wrote Saturday on his blog, gazatoday.blogspot.com. Readers responded with a flurry of antiwar comments from Greece , Iran , Tunisia and the United States .

Habeeb, a soft-spoken journalist with a degree in English literature, may not consider himself an activist, but he's on the front lines of the vibrant and at times hostile cyberwar over Gaza , a battle for public opinion that's raged in seemingly every corner of the Internet since the conflict began last month.

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