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This chapter explores manifestation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in cyberspace and, in doing so, examines a field that has been scarcely studied-international-propaganda war in the Internet environment. Although other virtual international conflicts, such as wars in the Balkans or the war in Iraq, have been examined, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the Web has not been a subject of systematic study to date. The research reported here deals with a new unique phenomenon: the meeting between personal surfing on the Web and processes of international public communications in cyberspace and how this is transformed into transborder propaganda.
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Naveh, C. (2007). The Palestinian-Israeli Web War. In: Seib, P. (eds) New Media and the New Middle East. Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230605602_10
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