Are Palestinians #Ready4Peace? - by Nir Boms and Asaf Romirowsky

...Information might indeed be the oxygen of the modern age, but the surrounding air in Palestine is deeply polluted. A young society with a median age of 19, Palestinians are being socialized to sanctify struggle over life and liberty by the same technology that has freed societies elsewhere from reactionary shackles. Until that changes, their future will be grim.

Nir Boms/Asaf Romirowsky..
MEF/The Washington Examiner..
05 November '16..

Information may be "the oxygen of the modern age," as Ronald Reagan famously said, but information technology is a mixed bag. Among other things, it has fueled the rise of global jihadism as we know it today.

It enabled a nest of tunnel-based terrorists in Afghanistan to coordinate the most deadly non-state terrorist attack in history 15 years ago. More recently, it has populated a new Islamic "caliphate" in Syria and Iraq with volunteers from around the world.

But there is a silver lining to the widespread use and abuse of social media in the Middle East: It can tell us a great deal about the individuals sitting behind the electronic screens.

Take Hashtag Palestine, the title of an insightful report by Hamleh, the Arab Center for Social Media Advancement. The Ramallah based-nongovernmental organization is dedicated to training individuals and community-based groups to engage in grassroots social media activism. Its recent report on Palestinian social media activity in 2015, a year that launched what is now called the Knife Intifada, is revealing.

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