ISRAEL TO MOVE ITS ‘TROOPS’ TO THE BLOGESPHERE

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January 19, 2009 at 12:02 pm (Blogging, Internet, Internet Security, Israel, Palestine)

Despite the ‘Cease-Fire’, Israel is still worried about its image….

They have successfully barred the Western news media from seeing what is really happening…. now they are targeting Bloggers, again proving the strength of the Blogesphere and the influence it holds.

What they mean by ‘combat’ remains a mystery….. will they continue to hack into our blogs and try to shut us down one way or another? Will they add their poisonous comments to our pages? They are already doing those things….. so it will be interesting to see what they have in store for us.

As for me, I will continue as I have presenting the Palestinian side of the conflict. If Israel can’t live with that, it will be OK

The following is a report on this situation…..

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Israel recruits ‘army of bloggers’ to combat anti-Zionist Web sites

_{By Cnaan Liphshiz}


The Immigrant Absorption Ministry announced on Sunday it was setting up an “army of bloggers,” to be made up of Israelis who speak a second language, to represent Israel in “anti-Zionist blogs” in English, French, Spanish and German.

The program’s first volunteer was Sandrine Pitousi, 31, from Kfar Maimon, situated five kilometers from Gaza. “I heard about the project over the radio and decided to join because I’m living in the middle of the conflict,” she said.

Before hanging up the phone prematurely following a Color Red rocket alert, Pitousi, who immigrated to Israel from France in 1993, said she had some experience with public relations from managing a production company.

“During the war, we looked for a way to contribute to the effort,” the ministry’s director general, Erez Halfon, told Haaretz. “We turned to this enormous reservoir of more than a million people with a second mother tongue.” Other languages in which bloggers are sought include Russian and Portuguese.

Halfon said volunteers who send the Absorption Ministry their contact details by e-mail, at media@moia.gov.il, will be registered according to language, and then passed on to the Foreign Ministry’s media department, whose personnel will direct the volunteers to Web sites deemed “problematic.”

Within 30 minutes of announcing the program, which was approved by the Foreign Ministry on Sunday, five volunteers were already in touch, Halfon said.

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Is THIS what Israel is worried about?

Image ‘Copyleft’ by Carlos Latuff