The authors analyze the potential for nuclear terrorism in the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict and conclude "that an escalation to WMD is a credible concern that cannot be dismissed out of hand."

Israeli officials are concerned that the Palestinians have obtained high-quality air photographs of the entire State of Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip, including the settlements and the military installations there.

While Israelis and Palestinians have been slugging it out on the ground with
guns and stones, others have gone into battle with mouse and modem. Although
cyber-attacks are not in themselves new, this is the first political
conflict in which two sides have fought each other in such an organised way
over the internet.

A group of self-described ethical hackers are taking the reins of the Israelis\' Web networks into their own hands in the Middle East\'s cyberwar. Known as the Israeli Internet Underground, the coalition of anonymous online activists from various Israeli technology companies has set up a website to disseminate information concerning the ongoing battle in cyberspace.

As hacker groups in the Middle East threaten to launch a \"cyber-Jihad,\" or electronic holy war, against companies with ties to Israel, security experts said Internet security at most U.S. companies remains woefully inadequate to defend against such attacks.

New battles are raging on the computer networks of the Middle East and conflict zones around the world -- a kind of warfare experts say is redrawing the lines of combat.

The cyberwars of the Middle East have spread to Washington.

Middle East violence is fueling an online cyberwar as hackers from both
sides of the conflict threaten government and business Web sites in the
United States, according to the FBI and industry experts.

Michelle Goldberg argues that the attention paid to the \'cyberwar\' raging between Israeli and Palestinian hackers trivializes the tragedy of the real conflict that occurs in the streets.

The unrest in the Middle East appears to have sparked a rising level of cyber attacks targeting both Israeli and pro-Palestinian entities.