More Information Less Power
| 12:52 UK time, Friday, 4 August 2006
We are getting more information about this conflict, from more people, more quickly than ever before.
The power of the Internet does not (yet?) translate into power to these individuals who we get to know rather well from their posts.
They seem just as powerless to influence their leaders as anyone caught up in the deadly momentum of any previous war.
Tragic stories being told by bloggers moment by moment from , .
An Israeli soldier who died leaves behind a . Before being deployed in Gaza, he wrote: "People around are worried (and rightly so!!!), but I am trying not to worry myself.
"I have to remember who I am facing so as not to live an illusion that everything will be good.
"There are people who don't know how to enjoy small and simple things in life, like breathing."
What the Israeli army says is of Hezbollah rockets being launched from residential areas, or hidden there.
The bloggers debate the , where we reported from Lebanese sources that more than fifty civilians died, more than half of them children.
The story of for whom the debate is hardly relevant.
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