Facebook, Social Networks and Israel"s National Security Discussed
During the short war between Hezbollah and Israel the social networks came alive calling for peace.
Many teenagers on sites like Facebook were all in a buzz over the faked pictures of civilians being killed in air raids.
Of course anyone who knows how terrorist organizations work knows that these groups use humans as shields.
Even hiding behind hospitals and schools while shooting rockets into Israel, then if an Israeli helicopter shoots back, they have a bunch of people lie down pretending to be dead and bring in the cameras.
Still, with all this going on and many close to the scene knowing this, the kids on these social networks think they are somehow saving lives by calling for the end of war? Yet, they fail to call Hezbollah to stop firing rockers into Israel.
A similar situation happened during the Hamas conflict last year and these things keep occurring.
Not only do these terrorist organizations use the media to recruit and propagandize, now they are using online social networks tapping into the youth of the world.
These kids do not realize that in essence they are supporting terrorists and they do not understand.
Many kids in the USA have joined in solidarity with the terrorist groups.
One can only wonder that if they lived in a US Border city and rockets were being shot into their city they might think differently.
Now the Israeli Intelligence Service has issued a warning to its citizens.
It appears that terrorist groups are trying to get younger citizens to come and meet with the opposition to the Jewish state to kidnap them, hold them as bargaining chips or recruit them to work within Israel against their national interests.
In fact, there have now been cases of people on Facebook offering money for information within Israel.
No one should be surprised at this new development, as these social networks have been doing this on an on-going basis for quite a while now.
Only now it's getting even more serious.
Please consider the implications of this.
Social Networks are being used by terrorists to recruit spies, terrorists, receive donations and shape public opinion.
Scary stuff.
Many teenagers on sites like Facebook were all in a buzz over the faked pictures of civilians being killed in air raids.
Of course anyone who knows how terrorist organizations work knows that these groups use humans as shields.
Even hiding behind hospitals and schools while shooting rockets into Israel, then if an Israeli helicopter shoots back, they have a bunch of people lie down pretending to be dead and bring in the cameras.
Still, with all this going on and many close to the scene knowing this, the kids on these social networks think they are somehow saving lives by calling for the end of war? Yet, they fail to call Hezbollah to stop firing rockers into Israel.
A similar situation happened during the Hamas conflict last year and these things keep occurring.
Not only do these terrorist organizations use the media to recruit and propagandize, now they are using online social networks tapping into the youth of the world.
These kids do not realize that in essence they are supporting terrorists and they do not understand.
Many kids in the USA have joined in solidarity with the terrorist groups.
One can only wonder that if they lived in a US Border city and rockets were being shot into their city they might think differently.
Now the Israeli Intelligence Service has issued a warning to its citizens.
It appears that terrorist groups are trying to get younger citizens to come and meet with the opposition to the Jewish state to kidnap them, hold them as bargaining chips or recruit them to work within Israel against their national interests.
In fact, there have now been cases of people on Facebook offering money for information within Israel.
No one should be surprised at this new development, as these social networks have been doing this on an on-going basis for quite a while now.
Only now it's getting even more serious.
Please consider the implications of this.
Social Networks are being used by terrorists to recruit spies, terrorists, receive donations and shape public opinion.
Scary stuff.
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