Posted on 05/05/2024 3:02:21 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Israel on Sunday shut down the Qatar-based news network Al Jazeera‘s operations inside Israel, raided its offices and confiscated its broadcast equipment in what is believed to be the first time Jerusalem has forcibly shuttered a major foreign news channel.
The move by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is the culmination of a long-running feud between the channel and Mr. Netanyahu’s government.
The Israeli prime minister, along with other Israeli officials, have accused Al Jazeera of an extreme anti-Israel bias and even suggested that the network participated in the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel.
The network has vehemently denied those charges. Still, Mr. Netanyahu said his government decided it had little choice but to shutter the channel’s operations inside Israel.
“Al Jazeera reporters harmed Israel’s security and incited against soldiers,” Mr. Netanyahu said in a statement. “It’s time to remove the Hamas mouthpiece from our country.”
His spokesperson to the Arab world, Ofir Gendelman, elaborated on the decision and what it will meanfor Al Jazeera, which is funded by the Qatari government. Under the Israeli order, the channel will be closed for 45 days. It’s unclear what will happen after that.
“The government unanimously approved the closure of Al Jazeera‘s offices in Israel. This decision will be implemented immediately, according to which 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,” Mr. Gendelman said in a social media post.
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If he says something criminal on air arrest and prosecute him for it.
This is the same kind of crap that got used to drive Alex Jones off the Internet, and soon it will be used against the rest of the conservative alternative media.
You seem to be projecting, and you aren't even self-aware enough to realize it.
No other Nation codifies the right to Free Speech like we do.
So fascism (totalitarianism, authoritarianism, whatever you choose to call it) is OK there?
By that reasoning it was OK in Nazi Germany.
Relax.
I just disagree with you.
I am not challenging your freedom of speech.
Be worried about here. You are right to be warruly of that Antisemtism bill. We have too many concerns here.
If we approve of it happening there, we have no right to get upset when it happens here.
“This is the same kind of crap that got used to drive Alex Jones off the Internet,”
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Bull crap.
That's a highly intelligent argument. You convinced me.
It is happening here.
I am aware of that, but some people obviously are not.
You’re an idiotic unthinking imbecilic person. Israel is at war you anti-Semite.
Alex Jones, by the way, was no terrorist and was not accused of being one, unthinking.
It’s going to happen here.
Islamists, communists, Marxists and their sympathizers don’t believe in freedom of anything.
The ones moving into the Square hotel are going to experience freedom of the press for the first time. They’ll prob wonder why a dozen news stations are saying the same thing and yet Americans believe that they have freedom of the press.
Uncool
So did you support or oppose restricting German and Japanese propaganda during WWII ? IIRC, there were some death penalty offenses.
Oh no! Who will report how the “refugees” are starving to death? Oh yeah, Cindy McCain, and the main stream media will pick up the slack.
Funny you say that. Freerepublic had a great anti free speech purge in 2016. Remember that? Anyone skeptical of DJT was instantly zotted. Remember? Fr hasn’t met a fundraiser goal since. So much for free speech.
How many billions of dollars are we sending to Israel?
But I am not supposed to care what they do?
Cause the war is here.
The war is global.
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