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An image of Mahsom.com, after rightists hacked into the site.
Last update - 14:56 26/06/2008
Rightist hackers place Israeli flag, Kach images on pro-Palestinian Web sites
By Yoav Stern, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: Palestnians, Rightists 

Rightists on Thursday hacked into three Web sites associated with the Israeli Arab and Palestinan causes, and embedded on their pages an image of the Israeli flag, the words to the Israeli national anthem and the symbol of an outlawed ultra-rightist movement.

The perpetrators hacked into the Web site of the Israeli Arab Balad party; Arabs48.com, an Arabic-language site; and Mahsom.com, which is written in Hebrew. Both site represent the Israeli Arab and Palestinian cause.

In addition to the flag and the words of "Hatikva," the hackers embedded the symbol of the Kach movement, an ultra-rightist organization founded by Rabbi Meir Kahane that was banned from the Knesset in 1988 and later deemed a terrorist organization by Israel. The symbol appeared with the words "Kahane was right."
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Pictures were also embedded on the sites showing Palestinian children strapped with explosives under the words "murderers from birth."

In a statement also printed on the site, the rightists wrote, "This site was hacked into due to its blatantly anti-Zionist contents. Israel is not interested in people like you who are burdens on the process of proper decision-making in the government. If you oppose what you call the 'Israeli occupation' then there's no place for you here."

Arabs48.com, which is popular in Arab states and in Israel, prints news on Israel and the Middle East from a pro-Palestinian, pan-Arabist perspective. Mahsom.com is a self-proclaimed alternative media source meant for a primarily Jewish audience.

The manager of Arabs48.com, Az a-Din Badran, said in response that the "hacking of the site is intended to sabotage the a central media outlet, which provides a critical and different look at everything connected to the Arab-Israeli conflict. It seems that the exposure enjoyed by the site, in Israel and in the Arab world, drives the right-wing crazy."

"The site is constantly suffering from repeated hack attempts, which have interfered in the past with the regular maintenance of the site, but not to this extent. We view with great severity the attempt to silence the site, which reflects factual and analytical loyalty to the Arab and Palestinian perspective in the ongoing conflict. The Kahane terrorists and their followers from the Israeli-Zionist right will not weaken our power, like they haven't in the past," the statement continued.
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  1.   Kach is a resistence group haaretz 14:32  |  JP 26/06/08
  2.   Mountain of a molehill - arab whining 14:45  |  Denise Thompson 26/06/08
  3.   Here you go again 14:59  |  Yosef 26/06/08
  4.   Strange, I thought Kach is a "militant" or an "extremist" group 15:14  |  Emet 26/06/08
  5.   Let the Israel hating sites have their go 15:22  |  ScotGuy 26/06/08
  6.   to JP: hamas is also a resistance group 15:23  |  noor 26/06/08
  7.   Cant stop the truth 15:45  |  Conversations 26/06/08
  8.   Kach is a resistance movement fighting the arab occupation 15:55  |  Baruch 26/06/08
  9.   Hey, they`re freedom f ighters 15:57  |  x-ray 26/06/08
  10.   noor you moron that is what jp is saying. 15:57  |  Tom 26/06/08
  11.   How many suicide bombers has Kach sent 17:13  |  Herbert Kaine 26/06/08
  12.   Herbert Kaine: if they had 17:58  |  Conversations 26/06/08
  13.   Denise- Couldnt have said it better 18:14  |  eli 26/06/08
  14.   6-noor . ´No, its not, hamas its a recognized terrorist 18:14  |  JP 26/06/08
  15.   Hackers 18:22  |  Dave Duncan 26/06/08
  16.   Baruch 8 18:24  |  Anthony 26/06/08
  17.   #8 Anthony 18:43  |  YE 26/06/08
  18.   Kach is the Web`s best advert 19:05  |  Markus 26/06/08
  19.   to Herbet Kain - every heard of Baruch Goldstein? 19:41  |  Kim 26/06/08
  20.   freedom fighters 19:49  |  martin 26/06/08
  21.   JP: israel is a terrorist state 20:20  |  noor 26/06/08
  22.   Kings and propehts 20:38  |  Anthony 26/06/08
  23.   Never again 20:41  |  Anthony 26/06/08
  24.   #21 Noor 20:45  |  Jane 26/06/08
  25.   #6 Noor 20:52  |  Jane 26/06/08
  26.   Anthony and his ignorance again 21:01  |  YE 26/06/08
  27.   YE and his blindness to truth 21:20  |  Anthony 26/06/08
  28.   YE 26 21:28  |  Anthony 26/06/08
  29.   Everyone gets a trial 21:51  |  Schtarker Yid 26/06/08
  30.   poor brainwashed Anthony 22:03  |  YE 26/06/08
  31.   Good For them!!! Kach is a legitimate political party! 22:05  |  Baruch Gold 26/06/08
  32.   #12 and #19 Baruch Goldstein acted in SELF DEFENSE!!! 22:11  |  Baruch Gold 26/06/08
  33.   #18 I suppose you can read Arabic? Sure popular for Arabs 22:12  |  Baruch Gold 26/06/08
  34.   This is what they do with your taxes 22:22  |  Ulf 26/06/08
  35.   noor: for me its more than enough 22:31  |  JP 26/06/08
  36.   GREAT WORK! 22:46  |  Solomon 26/06/08
  37.   #25, Jane, you`re behind the times, my dear... 22:47  |  Silvienne 26/06/08
  38.   Fat lot of good hacking Palestinian websites will do... 22:48  |  Silvienne 26/06/08
  39.   #19, Kim, you know the difference... 22:50  |  Silvienne 26/06/08
  40.   2. Denise Thompson 22:54  |  Zack 26/06/08
  41.   Anthony, whose land are you squatting on in Canada? 23:20  |  rehovot 26/06/08
  42.   KOL HAKAVOD!!! 23:27  |  KOCHAVA 26/06/08
  43.   Jane: shut that hole in your face 23:36  |  noor 26/06/08
  44.   silly 23:44  |  r 26/06/08
  45.   Zack and Denise 23:50  |  John 26/06/08
  46.   The Palestinians need better hackers 00:03  |  Colin Wright 27/06/08
  47.   to Silvienne #40, what a nasty comparision 00:10  |  JP 27/06/08
  48.   ISRAEL IS NOT THE VICTIM JP!!! 00:23  |  noor 27/06/08
  49.   #37 00:24  |  Jane 27/06/08
  50.   And furthermore, #37 00:26  |  Jane 27/06/08
  51.   BEST NEWS I HAVE HEARD ALL DAY 00:43  |  zionist forever 27/06/08
  52.   THERE SHOULDNT BE ANY ARAB EXTREMIST WEBSITES 00:45  |  PalestniansAreA Myth 27/06/08
  53.   TA sheppard - single state would be receipe for disaster not peac 01:10  |  zionist forever 27/06/08
  54.   silvienne, dont mind jane 02:06  |  noor 27/06/08
  55.   rehovot 41 02:25  |  Anthony 27/06/08
  56.   Noor provides the reason why Arabs need perish from this world 02:27  |  Genuine Tosefta 27/06/08
  57.   #54 Noor 03:06  |  Jane 27/06/08
  58.   #43 Noor 03:58  |  Jane 27/06/08
  59.   They`re right in both senses of the word 05:08  |  truth 27/06/08
  60.   Baruch Gold 07:53  |  Mary Ashkelon 27/06/08
  61.   Why am i not suprised 14:37  |  Samer Dallasheh 27/06/08
  62.   Lol!!!!! 15:01  |  Aziz 27/06/08
  63.   More suicidal Arabs are justifying why they should not exist 15:42  |  Genuine Tosefta 27/06/08
  64.   #42 OK, they breached the code... 19:15  |  Ulf 27/06/08
  65.   #14 JP 23:16  |  Advocate4Liberty 27/06/08
  66.   #11 Herbert in Brazil 23:26  |  Advocate4Liberty 27/06/08
  67.   jane 57 06:17  |  potobac 28/06/08
  68.   Potobac 18:54  |  Jane 28/06/08
  69.   #65 22:02  |  Jane 28/06/08
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