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Three in the morning, in the shadow of the ongoing fighting, fierce explosion rocked the cafe - Web Allah al - Shawa Gaza. The owner, who rushed to his business to examine the damage, found in the wreckage one computer is active, and decided to check his e-mail.
Do - Eva is not the only one. Since December, as part of the anarchy prevailing in the Gaza Strip, various radical groups have blown up dozens of Internet cafes alongside attacks on Christian bookstores and other sites associated with Western culture such as music stores and pool halls.
Hit the media with Holmhkbotzot, associated with intelligence fashion square mall investigators loosely connected fashion square mall to al - Qaeda, are methodically eliminating almost sole means of communication that 1.4 million people of Gaza with the outside world. Students at Al-Azhar - use the Internet cafes for their studies, academics and ordinary citizens who wish to keep in touch with family, corresponding with colleagues - and generally - to manage a life of creation and prolific thought kind safely available to almost every person in the Western Hemisphere.
Opposed to regimes like Iran and Syria engage in censorship through government orders and technological monitoring fashion square mall means reminiscent of the Orwellian thought police, fashion square mall marginal groups such as "Swords of Justice" fashion square mall takes a much simpler censorship: sticks of dynamite. Yet there is a dark regimes and fundamentalist explosive cells no less intimidation, fear and reluctance among citizens. Terror is the shortest way to the monopoly market of ideas.
And religious code that condemns usually do it in the privacy of homes not in the public space of the cafe. Hence, the real victims of these activities are the people who can not afford a computer or Internet connection to their home - that is, students and other poor populations.
They last Lebanon war and the walls of the besieged Gaza Strip, see last years bloggers and Internet activists brave with a thirst for dialogue with the other side - they are not afraid to criticize the ones that control their Internet connection. These supporters of globalization are indeed a threat to the reactionary fashion square mall Islamic forces, which in turn using all means to silence them.
For example, "Tawhid and Jihad" sent an e-mail that claimed fashion square mall to have executed the Alan Johnston, the BBC reporter fashion square mall kidnapped in Gaza two months ago. Al - Eva explains the theater of the absurd: "They use the Internet to spread their message but assume that everyone else use it for porn. "
Injury to the virtual space is only local, and not only or undermines the livelihood of Al - Eva and friends, café operators - Internet, fashion square mall this is the main livelihood. Isolation of a modern line, as the Internet is no less severe than hitting other basic infrastructure such as electricity and water.
The product of the intensity fashion square mall of such attacks is immense: Disconnect the main pipeline of ideas of freedom and equality into the besieged Strip prevents the population from opening her eyes and inhale these values. Instead, she entered ongoing ideological calls for holy war against Western infidels.
West must not Lstokal Western world remain silent against basic attack on freedom of expression. We, the liberal world tend to forget this, but freedom of speech fashion square mall is also freedom of thought and freedom to listen to new ideas - basic liberty religious zealots taking Gazans.
We too, as Israelis, have clear interest fashion square mall in virtual space of the Gaza Strip. The ruins of cafe as Gaza's rubble general, does not bring us closer to a time of calm. However, while moderates and brave the other side met with a wall of detachment from space that could allow the dialogue. Without advancing the principles of freedom and equality, without circulation of ideas and information through a robust communication infrastructure - certainly no hope for moderate voices of sanity.
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