Israel Losing of Words On Twitter Battle

Webpostline.com - Silence on the ground and diplomatic rangel's are not the only battle fields in the Middle East. They are also online proving it.


The latest military conflict in the Gaza Strip may go down in history as the first war ever declared on Twitter. The official account of the Israel Defense Force announce the start of the pillar of Defense operation and one of those literally told the  enemy to run and hide, but later Hamas had there say using similar war rhetoric.

This exchange has been re-tweeted thousand of time since, and numbers do matter on Twitter, through hits likes replies and re-tweets.

More people than ever before turned to social media, and the question is; who is winning this online warfare and numbers speaks for themselves according to the hash tags.org website; the Gaza under attack crash Tag is ten times more popular than Israel under fire pray for Gaza is 20 times more popular than pray for Israel. And Gaza hash tag is almost twice as popular as Israel.

In a nutshell, this is the battle between heavily funded state propaganda machine and citizen journalism from the outside looking Israel's content it's better produced more colorful shiny and glossy, take these banners for instance, which were posted on IDS official Facebook page.


Hamas has also been manning the information War trenches, some say clumsily as these tweets may suggest. But the fact of social media boom among young Palestinian activists in changing public perception of the Palestinian-Israel conflict has been viewed.

Young Gaza residents regularly rushed to hospitals and take an upload photos and videos of tragedy and inhumanity and some of the pictures have become symbolic of Israel's disproportionate to use a force. The graphic and vocal message in those tweets is perhaps the reason, why Palestinian citizen journalism is proving more effective and white Israeli social net-worker simply cannot compete with the content coming out of Gaza.


Whether this war started on Twitter can become the first war lost on twitter is a question, but one conclusion seems evident enough, Israel has not crossed the destructive power of social media as tightly as its holding the people of Gaza in its grip.