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Israeli Internet Surfer Says Jews Will Kill All Arabs Amid Raging Cyberwar
WASHINGTON, Feb 25 (IslamOnline) - In the last episode in a cyberwar between Muslim and Israeli Internet users, an Israeli surfer posted a hate message on one of the most used news servers by Muslims and Arabs, the MSANEWS.
In the message entitled "hello," the sender, using an Israeli internet provider and identified as "Megabyte Company", said he hoped that all Arabs vanish soon and that Israeli Jews would soon start killing their Arab neighbors one by one.
"i hope that all the arabs will die soon......when the war begins we will kill you all. that's a promise!," the message said. "we kill saddam and after that lebanon and syria!!!!!! it's only a matter of time...few months or years...i hope you all burn in hell! Insallaha. thank u. there is no need to reply..!"
The U.S. based Muslim Student Association News (MSANEWS), a service based out of Ohio State University, was started to serve the local Muslim community in 1991, but later gained popularity as it served as a forum for both Muslims and non-Muslims. Muslim Americans use it due to its tolerance of posting all views.
The popularity of the server spread to many Muslim countries and is often also used by organizations located outside the United States prompting some Internet reviews to call it "perhaps the single largest source of news coverage on the Middle East available on the internet."
Several similar Muslim and Arab sites have come under attack from Israeli hackers since the eruption of a Palestinian uprising against Israeli encroachment on Muslim holy sites in the Occupied Territories.
Late last year, Israeli hackers assailed a Lebanese Internet company for what was believed to be an act of reprisal for its hosting of a Hezbollah-maintained television station, al-Manar.
A Lebanese information technology company, Destination, an Internet network division of ITX, was defaced, halting services for more than six hours. ITX is responsible for designing, programming and displaying advertisements for Hezbollah's al-Manar television website.
An ITX picture shown on the site was damaged by a large caption displayed across the screen reading "closed by Mossad [Israeli intelligence]."
Muslim hackers retaliated by hacking into and taking over several important Israeli sites. In January, they removed extremist Israeli Likud party leader Ariel Sharon's website as he was in the midst of running for the office of Israel's prime minister, and replaced it with pro-Islamic slogans praising the Palestinians and the Lebanese resistance movement, Hezbollah.
The hackers rendered the site completely inaccessible and placed anti-Sharon messages reminding visitors of his "bloody and brutal" crimes against Palestinians, including the massacres at Sabra and Shatila in 1982, which cost the lives of hundreds of Palestinian civilians.
Alarmed by the recent spate of attacks on Israeli websites, the Israeli Internet Underground (IIU) hacking group has now solicited the support of "Analyzer" Ehud Tenenbaum.
Analyzer, who allegedly broke into the Pentagon website in 1998, was tried for the offense, but his trial since then has been put on hold. He is currently chief technical officer at the hi-tech firm, 2XS. Analyzer founded the IIU in 1996 but was disowned after the attacks on the Pentagon.
Most recently, pro-Palestinian hackers broke into Israel's Open University website and placed a picture of a boy urinating on an Israeli flag. A Pakistani group called G-Force was allegedly behind the attacks, setting up a number of websites with appeals for cyber attacks on Israel.
Less than two weeks ago, iviews.com, one of only several online news services providing news and opinion from Muslim perspectives, became the latest casualty in the cyberwar between pro-Palestinians and pro-Israelis.
On February 13th, a hacker who identified himself as an Israeli using the online name "v0dka" seized the site and de-faced it with an anti-Muslim message.
An iviews.com technician said the hacker accessed the site's server through an Israeli Internet service provider.
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