President Barack Obama’s address about the Middle East May 19, in which he suggested that Israel and Palestine revert to their 1967 borders, drew strong reaction on blogs, Twitter, and Facebook, most of it pro-Israel, according to a special edition of the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of May 16-20.
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A day after the Israeli Navy clashed with pro-Palestinian activists aboard the Freedom Flotilla, en route to Gaza with supplies, debate is being sparked all over the social web. Pro-Palestinian activists and Israelis alike are turning to sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to make their opinions heard and share news, videos, images and views that aren’t necessarily being shown by the mainstream press.
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