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At the White House press briefing on Monday, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked for an official reaction to the news that Israel Knesset passed a law giving the prime minister the power to shutter foreign news networks, specifically aimed at Al Jazeera.She answered, "If it is true, if it is true, a move like this is concerning. We believe in the freedom of the press. It is critical. It is critically important. And the United States supports the critically important work journalists around the world do. And that includes those who are reporting in the conflict in Gaza. So...

New report details how Al Jazeera's Arabic channel has served as regime's public relations arm to spread its ideology. The sixth U.S.-Qatar strategic dialogue held Tuesday in Washington was overshadowed by Qatar’s role in financing Hamas terrorism, and its state-owned Al Jazeera network’s promotion of the movement’s war against Israel.

YosephHaddad: Al Jazeera journalist Ismail Abu Omar went in on October 7th together with Hamas terrorists to document the massacre in Nir Oz, he celebrated there and blessed and brought up shocking documents of abuse of Israeli bodies. 130 days after that the IDF bombed him and now he is badly injured without a leg and less smiling and happy...

On a laptop found by IDF soldiers in northern Gaza belonging to a 'journalist' of the Qatar-based news network Al Jazeera, photos and intelligence materials were found linking him to the terrorist organization. During an operation at one of Hamas' bases in the northern Gaza Strip, a laptop belonging to a journalist for the Qatari Al-Jazeera network, Muhammad Washah, was found to contain photos and intelligence materials linking him to Hamas, IDF spokesman in Arabic, Lt. Col. Avichay Adraee, announced Sunday evening

MSNBC cancels Mehdi Hasan's show in major shakeup of its weekend lineup: Islamist "far-left" host has criticized Israel's war on Hamas and once compared non-Muslims to 'animals' and homosexuals to 'pedophiles'. It comes after Hasan's strong on-air criticism of Israel provoked backlash online. Formerly he hosted (propagated) at 'Al Jazeera' and 'The intercept.'In 2021, Hasan rushed to defend Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., who suggested the U.S. and Israel were just as guilty of "war crimes[sic]" as terrorist groups like Hamas and the Taliban.In April 2023, Mehdi Hasan lashed out after being fact-checked on twitter for his statements on racial...

US political scientist John Mearsheimer on Israel’s ‘punishment campaign’ against the civilian population in Palestine. Israel has gone far beyond “going after Hamas” in the first 10 weeks of its war on Gaza, according to one of the United States’ leading political scientists, John Mearsheimer. He tells host Steve Clemons that murdering hundreds of civilians daily and starving the rest is a “punishment campaign” and “should be unacceptable to decent people all over the world”. In this episode, Mearsheimer, who teaches international relations at the University of Chicago, looks into Israel’s long-term strategies and explains why the elites in the...

On CNN's State of the Union on Sunday morning, host Dana Bash suggested to Biden national security adviser Jake Sullivan that Netanyahu might be intentionally prolonging the war in order to prevent an accounting to remain in office. "He knows that as soon as the war with Hamas is over, he's going to face questions that he's been putting off about the failure to prevent the October 7th attacks. Questions about his tenure as Prime Minister. Is there any concern inside the Biden administration that Netanyahu doesn't necessarily see it as being in his interest to end this war as...

Since Hamas' October 7, 2023 attack in southern Israel, in which some 1,200 Israelis were murdered and about 240 were kidnapped, Qatar's Al-Jazeera channel has been serving as a major mouthpiece for Hamas and the Iran-backed terror militias. This is part of Qatar's policy of extending support to Hamas and other terror organizations, including global jihad organizations such as Al-Qaeda. Al-Jazeera's bias in favor of Hamas, Hizbullah, the Houthis, and other terror organizations in the Iran-led resistance axis sparked criticism from Arab journalists and intellectuals who took to X (formerly Twitter) to slam the channel and its coverage. They called...

@visegrad24: Al-Jazeera reporter interviews a wounded elderly man at a Gaza hospital about how he got hurt. His answer? “Why is Hamas hiding among us civilians? Why don’t they go to hell and hide there instead?" The reporters quickly ends the interview…. Nov 14, 2023 https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1724534188097851587 WATCH: Gaza resident criticizes Hamas on Al Jazeera, reporter turns away and ignores him. By Maariv Online, Jerusalem Post Staff. Published: November 15, 2023https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-773289

The US has launched retaliatory airstrikes on two locations in eastern Syria linked to Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Pentagon has said. And "insane bureaucracy" at the Rafah crossing from Egypt into Gaza is slowing the delivery of aid to a "dribble", according to a UN official. An "insane" amount of bureaucracy at the Rafah crossing from Egypt into Gaza is slowing the delivery of aid to a "dribble", the head of the UN's World Food Programme has said. The number of lorries being allowed in is a fraction of that entering the territory before the conflict began. The United...

New details have begun to emerge about the barbaric evils that innocent Israeli citizens were forced to experience at the hands of savage Palestinian Islamic terrorists with Hamas during their unprecedented terror attack two weeks ago.A woman named Shari, who did not want to give her last name because she wanted to protect her family, works in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Rabbinate corps and it is her job to clean the victim’s bodies as best as possible to prepare them for burial.“We wash the bodies and prepare them for burial. We try to bring them dignity in death,” she...

A survivor of the attack said he saw scantily clad corpses, many of whom appeared to have been shot point-blank By Orlando Radice, October 09, 2023 11:03 Screengran from a video shot as revellers realise Hamas gunmen are attacking. A survivor of the rave massacre – in which over 260 young revellers at a party near the Gaza Strip were gunned down by Hamas terrorists – has said that women were “raped next to the dead bodies of their friends”. Speaking to US website Tablet, the survivor said that several of the rape victims appeared to have been executed later,...

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) repeated her claim that Israel bombed a hospital in Gaza in a speech at an anti-Israel rally on Wednesday afternoon, despite extensive evidence that the explosion in the hospital parking lot was caused by a faulty rocket launched by a Palestinian terrorist group

The New York Times reportedly edited a headline twice on Tuesday about a blast that blew up a Gaza hospital, changing the title each time to reflect less blame against Israel for the tragic explosion. After the blast, multiple pieces of evidence emerged from the Israel Defense Forces and the media that suggested the blast was an errant rocket fired by Hamas, not an Israeli airstrike. As the evidence came to light, the Times altered its headline.

At least 5,000 anti-Israeli protesters filled the streets of Bay Ridge Saturday at a rally where they called for the eradication of the Jewish state and demanded the United States withdraw its support of its closest ally in the Middle East. Around 2 p.m., demonstrators converged on 72nd Street and Fifth Avenue, packing the streets and sidewalk for the “Flood Brooklyn for Palestine” demonstration in one of the largest Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York City. “We are calling for full liberation of all of Palestine . . . to every single inch, from river to the sea,”...

The British media body, which on the day of the attack on the hospital in Gaza presented the claim of Hamas, published a correction • "This does not represent our coverage", they said in their message • The CNN network investigated and determined: "The explosion - did not result from an Israeli attack"

Islamic Jihad failed rocket destroyed Gaza hospital al-Ahli. Naturally guilty Palestinian Hamas regime blamed Israel for their "accident", which triggered protests among the Arab world. The failed jihadists' missile was one of approximately 450 that land within the Gaza Strip. In fact, "radar detected outgoing rocket fire at the same moment the blast at the Gaza hospital occurred," In addition, Gaza-regime Hamas, often working with Islamic jihadists at rocket launchers had warned, one minute before the hospital explosion on an upcoming missile to reach Haifa, which didn't reach that city at the end, and missiles launched do trigger second explosions....

May 4, 2023 (Twitter/Screenshot) New US report confirms Al Jazeera journalist’s death was an accident Shireen Abu Akleh was killed in May 2022 during an exchange of fire between the IDF and terrorists in Jenin. The report confirms earlier findings, says State Department spokesman. By JNS The U.S. Security Coordinator has submitted a new report on the killing of an Al Jazeera journalist in Jenin in May 2022, which is said to confirm the USSC’s previous finding that her death was unintentional. Shireen Abu Akleh was killed during an exchange of fire between Israeli forces and Palestinian gunmen in Jenin.

Exclusive: Construction firms allegedly paid ‘millions’ to buy and lease machinery from the Taliban for infrastructure, according to sources The Taliban made millions from the World Cup by providing construction equipment to build stadiums in Qatar, The Telegraph understands. Senior Taliban officials used lucrative salaries tied to peace talks to buy and then subcontract heavy machinery for tournament infrastructure over the past decade, a source from the Taliban's Doha office revealed.

Lahav Harkov @LahavHarkov: I won't hold my breath for an FBI investigation of this attack on a US citizen. *__ Jerusalem bombing: 18-year-old American olah injured By Jerusalem Post Staff Published: November 23, 2022