Posted on 08/18/2010 9:02:08 PM PDT by citizenredstater9271
JERUSALEM – The security obsessed Israeli military is confronting a new adversary — trying to control what its own soldiers post to the Internet. Facebook, along with YouTube and other popular sites, is turning into a formidable nuisance for the army, as young recruits in this tech-crazy country post embarrassing and potentially sensitive information online, circumventing tight military controls.
The issue exploded onto the national agenda this week when a young ex-soldier posted pictures of herself in uniform, posing in front of handcuffed, blindfolded Palestinian prisoners on her Facebook page under the heading "Army — The Best Time of My Life."
The controversial posting, along with a series of other recent gaffes, highlights the challenges facing Israel's high-tech military — known, among other things, for its shadowy electronic-warfare units — as it struggles to keep up with the ever-shifting sands of the Internet. Last month, a video of Israeli soldiers dancing to the drunken party anthem "TiK ToK" during a patrol in the West Bank emerged on YouTube, earning them a reprimand.
Around the same time, a secret intelligence unit launched a Facebook group for its members that divulged details of the secret base where they served. The site was removed several days later after the army found out. And, in perhaps the most serious breach, a military raid in the West Bank had to be called off earlier this year after a soldier posted details about the upcoming operation on Facebook.
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IDF postings have gotten out of hand for some time. Right before the last incursion into Gaza, all cell phones were confiscated from IDF soldiers.
As a supporter of Israel I love that idea. Don’t let soldiers have cell phones or facebook or digital cameras when there on duty.
How is the article anti-semetic? You sound like Jesse Jackson vis a vis “racism”.
I didn’t say the article was anti-semitic. I said it has an anti-israel bias in it. Where’s all the outrage when muslims post pics of beheadings or girls disfigured by the taliban?
from the same author:
http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=6&x_article=887
While Federman acknowledges that “The Holocaust is perhaps the most sensitive issue in the Jewish state,” he follows this with: “[Israeli] Politicians routinely refer to the slaughter of 6 million Jews by the Nazis to score political points and justify Israel’s tough policies against the Palestinians.”
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