The Consulate’s tweets focus on Israel’s “war on terrorism,” and various (non-Al-Jazeera) news reports and commentary. One tweet says Palestinians not in support of Hamas are handing over intelligence to Israeli officials.

Another Israeli Twitter account is manned by volunteers inside Israel and the crew there tweets about Israeli casualties and civilians hit by Hamas rockets. In much the same way Americans view their soldiers as patriotic humanitarians, the fromisrael Twitter group posts photographs of Israeli soldiers being kind to children, kittens, and elderly Palestinians.

In addition to an Israeli Defense Force channel on YouTube and a website called HelpUsWin.org detailing all the social network accounts that have been set up on Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Flickr, and del.icio.us, Israeli supporters have also set up a group on Facebook and a corresponding Twitter account called Qassamcount. These keep a running tally of Hamas-fired rockets crossing over into Israel.
 

Hat tip to Robert Scoble.

It read: Sympathize with Gaza.

When images of the statement did not appear on Google’s image index, the conspiracy theories began. When the image didn’t appear a few days after the match, Google was flooded with enough accusations that the company censored the image at the request of the Israeli government that the Google Images team was compelled to respond.

Matt Cutts lent the blogp-space on his blog to clear things up.

The Google EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) Team said all images could take a few days to appear in the index:

"[W]e definitely didn’t do this," they wrote. "The reason for the delay in the image showing up on Google Images was that it can take a few days between when an image appears and when its crawled by the Googlebot…. No-one [sic] from any government has contacted us about this image, and we have no reason to remove it."

They further point out that the image is available now when searching for [Aboutrika] or [Aboutrika Gaza].

Cutts reminds readers in that blog post that indexing images takes time, and that Google has made significant progress over the years since it once took months instead of days to index images.