The best recent example of the organizational potential of these discussion groups was the 1999 campaign against the Burger King franchise in the Israeli settlement of Ma'ale Adumim. The WWW's organizational capacity is particularly important in Palestine, where solidarity networks are currently very weak. Rebuilding networks between people at the grassroots level is crucial for progressive politics, and the Internet can play a key role in this process. The project aims to establish Internet centers in Palestinian refugee camps across the Middle East and to encourage refugees to build websites describing their lives in the camps and thereby sharing their experiences and hopes for the future with each other and with the wider world. A key objective of the project is to rebuild and strengthen links between different, widely separated refugee communities.
Centers are also in progress in camps in Lebanon.
Hyperlinks on the WWW enable people to jump between topics, concepts and sites with ease. The Internet allows users to explore, define and shape concepts in a much more immediate and effective way than through conventional forms of information exchange. For example, an expository article on Palestine might include embedded links to relevant political agreements, background information, photographs, maps and explanatory diagrams. Interspersing text with links to background or secondary information increases the text's depth. If this article were on the WWW, all of the examples could be linked and immediately accessed by the reader, rendering the main points and the connections between different concepts that much clearer.