Israeli government websites under mass hacking attack
reuters.com
reuters.com
The only government sites they've defaced were Israel's international aid agency (http://mashav.mfa.gov.il/) and some committee about restoring quarries or something. Compared to their incessant boasting that's pretty pathetic.
What constitutes an "attempt"?
What information is conveyed by the number "44 million"?
None, really, since we have no way of knowing how the counting is done. In fact there's not really any information in the article, except for "Hacking attempts increase when carrying out a bombing campaign", which probably shouldn't be too surprising.
While the civilian casualties are much higher on Palestinian side. And while it's Israel who blocks shipping goods and humanitarian aid to Gaza.
Actually, those aren't blocked. Well, unless you consider missiles to be humanitarian aid.
Should they just let Iran ship weapons into Gaza to be used against Israeli civilians?
I am sure that if no missiles were being brought into Gaza or if those missiles weren't used for killing Israeli civilians, there would be no blockade of anything.
What do you expect the Israelis to do? Just die? Oh wait, that is what you expect them to do.
The flotilla organizers refused this offer. Their purpose was not to deliver humanitarian aid, but to cause a spectacle drawing attention to the security restrictions imposed on the Strip.
Once the flotilla was diverted and the contents were unloaded and placed on Israeli trucks to be transferred to the Gaza Strip, Hamas refused to accept it. This humanitarian aid was apparently so urgently needed that Hamas decided they didn't want to lose face by accepting it.
People entitle themselves to land for no logical reason; nobody thinks: "This country haves 40 million people an there is 7.053 billion people in the world; therefore we should only own a 176.325th of the available terrain"; never happens.
What is the point of civilisation if it fails to prevent suffering?
Let's say we have a dispute. You say I stole your house, and I say I didn't. Do you think a good way to resolve the dispute is to take pot-shots at my kids? Does it make it a better idea to take pot-shots if I have a machine gun and you don't?
As far as I can tell, defending Hamas is just insane, even if you really, really think Palestinians are abused by Israelis.
But given the number (and impact) of pro-IDF groups whose explicit goal is to control the online Israel-Palestine debate through propaganda, stuff like this is particularly tiring. Every time conflict breaks out a bunch of kids start spamming unrelated forums with their crap.
Edit: Note that I'm not claiming the other side is innocent of this behavior, it may just be that I notice the Israeli stuff more/hang out on forums more prone to being exposed to them.