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The ongoing Israel and Arab Internet feud continues. Now a hacker who says he is acting "in defense of Israel" released 100,000 log-in credentials of allegedly Arab Facebook users, according to reports from Computer World.

The hacker, who goes by "Hannibal," posted the credentials to Pastebin on Saturday, and also made all details available through 14 sharing sites, including mediafire.com, sendspace.com, wupload.com and zshare.net.

"Jewish people named me as the general of Israel's hackers," writes Hannibal on the Pastebin site. "I have about 30 million email accounts, 10 million bank accounts, 4 million cerdit cards of Arabs from all over the world."

The latest strike in the little cyber war between Israel and the Saudi hacker group xp-group, led by 0xOmar, has taken the form of an Israeli hack of Saudi credit cards, according to Ynet.

An Israel hackers told Ynet, "If the leaks continue, we will cause severe damage to the privacy of Saudi citizens."

After a cyber-attack by a hacker claiming to be Saudi, Israel has vowed a strong response.

"(Such an attack is) a breach of sovereignty comparable to a terrorist operation and must be treated as such," Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said in a speech quoted by BBC . "Israel has active capabilities for striking at those who are trying to harm it, and no agency or hacker will be immune from retaliatory action."

After releasing 15,000 credit card numbers hacked from an Israeli website on Tuesday, the Saudi hacker known as 0xOmar has released 11,000 more today. He has threatened to release a further one million.

The hacker broke into a popular Israeli sports site, making off with hundreds of thousands of accounts' worth of personal information, including some credit card numbers.

Lawyers say Twitter will likely weather legal challenges from an Israel-based group that tries to combat terrorism through litigation, which is claiming the San Francisco-based company is violating U.S. law by allowing groups like Hezbollah and al Qaeda affiliate al-Shabaab to use its microblogging service.

In a letter sent to Twitter last week, Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, director of the Shurat HaDin Israel Law Center, threatened legal action and said Twitter and its officers could also face criminal charges if the accounts in question are not taken down.

Matt Graves, a spokesperson for Twitter, declined comment.

Campaign for imprisoned Syrian blogger. Anyone who still believes that imprisonment and torture of social media users is limited to political radicals and gadfly journalists need look no further than Syria's Anas Maarawi to be disabused of that notion. Maarawi was arrested on July 1. Talk about geek like me. Maarawi started Ardroid, the first Arabic language blog devoted to Google's Android OS.

His supporters have started a Facebook page to publicize his situation. A blog, Free Anas, has also been started, as well as a hashtag, #freeanas. Get on it, nerdlingers.

Israel makes boycotts illegal. One of the time-tested, non-violent ways in which people have attempted to force grass-roots change is by boycotting the products or services of an entity whose actions they dislike. Now, Israel made such boycotts illegal.

Given how deeply social media is twined into contemporary political action, this makes certain types of online actions as illegal in Israel as they are in non-democratic countries.

A three-month investigation published Saturday by The New York Times indicates the Stuxnet virus that did damage to Iran's nuclear program may well have been a joint project between the American and Israeli government.

The "Dimona complex" located in the southern Negev desert in Israel, where that country is said to have centered its nuclear weapons program, may for two years have been the proving ground for Stuxnet as well.

Two recent groups of cheesed-off kids have used online tools to circumvent both those who put them down and the creaky old activists who they believe no less authoritarian. Gaza Youth Breaks Out, from Palestine, and the fenqing, or "angry youth" movement in China have rejected the whole lot of old farts who they believe are responsible for stranding them in the present. And they're not being nice about it.

Gaza Youth are a group from the Strip who have taken Facebook by storm, printing a manifesto that is so uncompromising and so full of rejection not just for Israeli occupiers but the bullies and schnorrers in their own communities that reading it is like coming up for air.

Entrepreneurship is a trait that knows no boundaries. Those that possess it come in all shapes, sizes, ethnicities and genders, and in some places, the startup spirit is bringing together groups of people that are otherwise at odds with each other. Nowhere in the world is this more evident than in the middle east, where Palestinians and Israelis continue their centuries-long feud, but one organization is throwing all of that out in the name of entrepreneurship and peace.