One more reason to love Anonymous: Knocking out the website of the Israeli Mossad

As if the basic conception of a left-libertarian/anarchist hacker collective, committing its technological efforts to standing up for its broader partisan principles, didn't deserve abundant gratitude, the Anonymous hackers collective and its allies are back waging cyber war against Israel and, today, they appear to have succeeded compromising the Internet site of Israel's Mossad intelligence/security service.  The act was apparently undertaken, in part, to avenge the death of one its members, Tayeb Abu Shehada, killed either by Israeli security forces or armed settlers at a protest in the West Bank village of Huwwara last weekend.  The group additionally offered in an online statement: "As a collective, 'Anonymous' does not hate Israel, it hates that Israel's government is committing genocide & killing unarmed people in Gaza in order to obtain more land at the border" (at:  https://plus.google.com/107875209762762391698/posts/PX6VvoCnzaR#107875209762762391698/posts/PX6VvoCnzaR).

I like to take credit for the nuanced intellectual positions that I try to take on most of the issues I've discussed on this blog, but I have to admire the blunt principled commitment of Anonymous to reduce the new Israeli offensive in Gaza to its most simplistic terms and to utilize these as motivation to act on the behalf of the innocent non-combatants of Gaza in the name of peace and, possibly, against the brutish colonization of the meager land holdings of the Palestinian people by Israel.  I am sure that Israel will not be drastically impacted by the compromise of an external website for its intelligence/security service, but it at least contributes a mild bloody nose to a regime that appears determined to undertake a new, permanent occupation of Gaza both as a means of punishing Hamas for its adamant denial of recognition to the Zionist state and to punish the Fatah government of the Palestinian Authority for making peace with Hamas.  In this regard, I give Anonymous much credit and wish them continued success in their assault on the information technology resources of the Israeli government and, especially, its military.