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CYBER WAR
A ISRAELI PROGRAM TO POLLUTE THE INTERNET WITH ISRAELI PROPAGANDA
JULY 22 : A call to 100 000Jews IN THE WORLD
Israel's Foreign Ministry provides Free Internet Tool to online activists
(Arjan El Fassed, The Electronic Intifada, 26 July 2006)
Screen image of the giyus.org website from which the Megaphone desktop tool can be downloaded.
The following letter was sent by Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs to a variety of pro-Israel organisations, so-called 'hasbara'-groups and other supporters of Israel.
Dear friends,
Many of us recognize the importance of the Internet as the new battleground for Israel's image. It's time to do it better, and coordinate our on-line efforts on behalf of Israel. An Israeli software company have developed a free, safe and useful tool for us - the Internet Megaphone.
Please go to www.giyus.org, download the Megaphone, and you will receive daily updates with instant links to important internet polls, problematic articles that require a talk back, etc.
We need 100,000 Megaphone users to make a difference. So, please distribute this mail to all Israel's supporters.
Do it now. For Israel.
Amir Gissin
Director Public Affairs (Hasbara) Department
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Jerusalem
Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs understands that today's conflicts are won by public opinion. They mobilize pro-Israel activists to be active and voice "Israel's side to the world." The Megaphone desktop tool, built by Giyus, which means "mobilization", sends desktop alerts on key articles on Israel and surveys, online polls where activists could click on the button to support Israel and click alerts to easily voice pro-Israel opinions.
The tool tracks down online articles and polls that members should act upon. After installing the tool, members receive alerts on those articles. With this tool Israel's Foreign Ministry obviously thought it would help Israel's fight in cyberspace. However, having used this tool, for others, it is quit useful as well. There is also a weblog and a forum.
To download Megaphone Desktop Tool click here [*.exe file for Windows].
For non Windows users and others who would like to to track the alerts being posted via RSS or the Web, visit this page.
Amir Gissin's letter was posted on July 22 on the website of www.standwithus.com -- an pro-Israel advocacy organization.
Related Links
Giyus.org - Give Israel [or Palestine and Lebanon] Your United Support
CYBER WAR
A ISRAELI PROGRAM TO POLLUTE THE INTERNET WITH ISRAELI PROPAGANDA
JULY 22 : A call to 100 000Jews IN THE WORLD
Israel's Foreign Ministry provides Free Internet Tool to online activists
(Arjan El Fassed, The Electronic Intifada, 26 July 2006)
Screen image of the giyus.org website from which the Megaphone desktop tool can be downloaded.
The following letter was sent by Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs to a variety of pro-Israel organisations, so-called 'hasbara'-groups and other supporters of Israel.
Dear friends,
Many of us recognize the importance of the Internet as the new battleground for Israel's image. It's time to do it better, and coordinate our on-line efforts on behalf of Israel. An Israeli software company have developed a free, safe and useful tool for us - the Internet Megaphone.
Please go to www.giyus.org, download the Megaphone, and you will receive daily updates with instant links to important internet polls, problematic articles that require a talk back, etc.
We need 100,000 Megaphone users to make a difference. So, please distribute this mail to all Israel's supporters.
Do it now. For Israel.
Amir Gissin
Director Public Affairs (Hasbara) Department
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Jerusalem
Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs understands that today's conflicts are won by public opinion. They mobilize pro-Israel activists to be active and voice "Israel's side to the world." The Megaphone desktop tool, built by Giyus, which means "mobilization", sends desktop alerts on key articles on Israel and surveys, online polls where activists could click on the button to support Israel and click alerts to easily voice pro-Israel opinions.
The tool tracks down online articles and polls that members should act upon. After installing the tool, members receive alerts on those articles. With this tool Israel's Foreign Ministry obviously thought it would help Israel's fight in cyberspace. However, having used this tool, for others, it is quit useful as well. There is also a weblog and a forum.
To download Megaphone Desktop Tool click here [*.exe file for Windows].
For non Windows users and others who would like to to track the alerts being posted via RSS or the Web, visit this page.
Amir Gissin's letter was posted on July 22 on the website of www.standwithus.com -- an pro-Israel advocacy organization.
Related Links
Giyus.org - Give Israel [or Palestine and Lebanon] Your United Support
NOTE :
You can prefer this news where they talk about "hasbara"
Peace, Propaganda & The Promised Land (en)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7828123714384920696
You can prefer this news where they talk about "hasbara"
Peace, Propaganda & The Promised Land (en)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7828123714384920696 
Comments
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... any tool ...
14.08.2006 08:51
A tool that alerts one set of people to contentious infomation requiring response[sic] can just as easily be used by another set of people with THE OPPOSITE point of view ... yes?
Not quite an own goal, but still a desparate, dumb and arrogant move.
I'm getting me some of that tool !!!
jackslucid
e-mail:
jackslucid@hotmail.com
YES! I AGREE
14.08.2006 11:43
ORWELL
Spyware alert
14.08.2006 14:31
Nerd
I AM TOO OLD ...
14.08.2006 19:54
MY LIFE WAS HAPPY AND AT MY AGE THE WORST -DEATH -IS NOT A TRAGEDY.
SO I CAN AFFORD ME THE LUXURY NOT TO BE CAREFUL
ORWELL
A Waste Of Electrons
14.08.2006 23:20
Eric Blake
Israel advocacy
20.09.2006 09:24
The Anti Israel opposition portrays Israel as a massive entity against a tiny Palestine. Just take a look at a map of the Middle East. Israel is a very small state surrounded by some of the most undemocratic and unpleasant regimes in the world. One small state surrounded by thousands.
Israel advocates want a two state solution.
Arab propagandists want Israel to be destroyed.
Why dont they call for Saudi Arabia to be destroyed. Or Iran, where they execute 12 year old girls for the crime of being raped. Could it be latent anti-Semitism that says that Jews are the only people not to be allowed a nation.
In Iran, Pres. Mahmoud Dinnerjacket has just purged the universities of intellectuals. No academic freedom, yet academics in this country are voting to boycott Israeli universities - something wrong there!!!??? His religious views impel himj to start a nuclear war to bring about the return of the last Shia Imam.
The pro Arab fanatics inc. the SWP and so called Respect Party are in fact betraying the Palestinians. There will only be a Palestinian State when the surrounding Arab states accept a two state solution.
Dr L. Street
Louisa Street