Posted on 05/05/2024 11:57:57 AM PDT by EBH
Israel has ordered the closure of Al Jazeera in the country, a move the Qatar-based news network called a “criminal act.”
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a post on X: “The government headed by me unanimously decided: the incitement channel Al Jazeera will be closed in Israel.”
Ofir Gendelman, the prime minister’s spokesperson to the Arab world, said Sunday that the decision would be “implemented immediately.”
In a post on X, Gendelman said that the network’s “broadcast equipment will be confiscated, the channel’s correspondents will be prevented from working, the channel will be removed from cable and satellite television companies, and Al Jazeera’s websites will be blocked on the Internet.”
The Israeli Ministry of Communications said Sunday it had closed the network’s Jerusalem offices, and confiscated its communication equipment. “In addition, the network’s broadcasts on cable and satellite were stopped, and access to its websites was blocked,” the ministry said.
Israeli cable providers ceased carrying the Al Jazeera networks by late Sunday afternoon, CNN journalists in the country confirmed. Al Jazeera’s cable channel in Israel now displays a message stating, “In accordance with the government’s decision, Al Jazeera channel broadcasts were stopped in Israel.”
Gendelman quoted Netanyahu as saying: “Al Jazeera reporters harmed Israel’s security and incited against IDF soldiers. It is time to expel the mouthpiece of Hamas from our country.”
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AJ is usually more objective, with exception to reporting on specific country...
Gee, could that be anti Semitism?
Just level Doha.
That’s where Hamas leaders live.
Al Jazeera is there too.
And location of largest US military base in the Middle East...
winner winner chicken dinner
Yeah. Good move. BIDEN just stopped the shipment of military ammo to Israel because of their planned invasion and ultimate destruction of the rest of the scum of hamas. He will burn in hell for this. GOD said He would bless those who bless Israel, and He would CURSE those who curse Israel. Biden just cursed himself and the USA.
Apparently you don’t understand. When major offenses in a war take place or are about to take place communications And news are cut off. It is a strategy of war not politics.
Yeah.
That’s why they’re indulged, although I don’t think the base is in Doha.
And of course my comments are rhetorical.
Israel should, though, take out the Hamas leaders in Doha.
Excellent!
Their existential war their rules! They lose they disappear! It’s that stark! They as a people had that experience once. What does “Never Again!” mean to you?
When we had our existential war (WWII) we did what we thought was necessary to control the press.
GREAT
Smart. Enemy combatants are not journalists.
Why if someone had that standard for the media then the US taxpayers would stop paying millions of dollars for the anti-American propaganda on PBS and NPR.
A fine idea.
Good!
It’s about time we ban all medias acting as a mouthpiece for the Iran-Russia-Hamas-North Korea Alliance. Every country in the West should do so.
Let’s ban communist China’s TikTok as well - its subverting America into degeneration.
“Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a post on X: “The government headed by me unanimously decided: the incitement channel Al Jazeera will be closed in Israel.”
If only we could do that with our incitement news
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