Israeli war-"tweet"-ics

Though the Israeli Army has found some success with their airstrikes against militants in the Gaza Strip, a new war zone is emerging that could impact everyone worldwide- the Internet.

The Jerusalem Post quotes Maj. Avital Leibovich, the head of the Israeli Defense Forces' foreign press branch on the digital media campaign. "The blogosphere and new media are another war zone," she says. "We have to be relevant there."

Israel’s military has already spearheaded the online combat by publishing videos of recent airstrikes on its own YouTube channel, some of which that have already been removed. In response, a note on the channel read:

"We are saddened that YouTube has taken down some of our exclusive footage showing the IDF's operational success in operation Cast Lead against Hamas extremists in the Gaza Strip. ... It is also worth noting that one of the videos removed had the highest number of hits (over 10,000) at the time of its removal."

Of course, the world cannot be won on YouTube alone, so the Israeli Consulate in New York hosted a press conference on Twitter, a micro blogging site with growing popularity.




When this was first drawn to my attention I was outraged! Keep your war over there, I can turn on the television at any point during the day if I want to see you all kill yourselves, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized that if I were involved in a war, I would be all over the internet. My question though is why the HELL would you pick Twitter of all sites?? You’re only allowed 140 Characters! How do you have a conference regarding war affairs when you can only type 140 characters or less?

Sandsk8ter - @ DanzaBoss @ shyguy14 FAIL!! No no, just kidding, you guys are the best.

DanzaBoss - @ shyguy14 OMGZ!!1 They were all like “oh no they’re going to bomb our school” lol

shyguy14 - @ DanzaBoss Did you see the look on their face when we bombed that school? Hehe