The latest incidents of “hacktivism” remind us that the internet has long provided a front in the Israel-Palestine conflict. And the cyberwar is likely to escalate. By Dalia Othman On Monday, January 16, at around noon, the hashtag #HackerOmar started trending globally on Twitter. The name rang a bell; the hacker OxOmar had recently published the details of tens of thousands of Israeli credit cards. As it turned out, "Saudi" OxOmar had struck again. This time, his targets were the Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange and El Al websites, which went dark in what seemed like a denial-of-service attack (DOS), where a…