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23.07.2008
Al Jazeera: Not a Contribution to the Good of Mankind

I have been on Al-Jazeera television myself, and so have many of my friends, both Israelis and Americans. It is easy to be euchred into participating with a network that, at bottom, allows independent voices to be heard, at least some independent voices. Al-Jazeera is owned by the royal family of Qatar which has blazed an idiosyncratic trail in the Arab world: doing some business (financial and political) with Israel and also coordinating the collective blessings of the Arab powers for Hezbollah's daring and bloody coup in Lebanon. On the other hand, Al-Jazeera is the chosen conduit of Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden to the world.

This is not a contribution to the good of mankind.

Here, in a copy from the always invaluable MEMRI, is a clip of of the birthday party thrown for monster-murderer Samir Kuntar by Al-Jazeera on its own television network. Isn't this a confession that says we are for Arab terror and certainly not neutral on the matter?

Posted: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 7:06 PM with 4 comment(s)

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s4200 said:

All decent Arab people should liberate themselves from the Al-Jazeera propaganda.

The low income Arab people are heading for a social breakdown.

They are not well educated to oppose propaganda and tyrants.

I think only Saudi Arabia will escape a meltdown, because they have a large reservoir of Western educated people. It should transform the Saudi society into a openminded future.

July 24, 2008 10:33 PM

scrubbyoak said:

Marty, why worry about their version of Fox News when ours is booming and its style is slowly being copied by the MSM inspite of all the derisive comments being made.

Maybe it's the wave of the future.  You know, News for the low information folks, or the uninformed public news. The political edition of The National Enquirer, sort of.

May God help us.

July 25, 2008 11:52 PM

mollysimon said:

scrubby, I was just about to ream you for equating a network that throws a party for a terrorist with Fox.  Then I realized that Fox has hosted and hosanna'd war criminal Dick Cheney many a time.  Vice-president-of-torture Cheney, plotter of this misbegotten war, has got more blood on his hands than Osama himself.  So your point really isn't at all sophomoric.

July 26, 2008 1:59 PM

scrubbyoak said:

I'm glad you understand, molly. Really, Fox is far more insidious. I don't know if you saw it or not, but the former White House secretary - Scott McCullif - (spell) was on MSNBC and claimed that Rove and his staff regularly handed out talking points to all the Fox talking heads -- Hannity, BillO etc.  Shouldn't there be  screaming headlines about that? Right, liberal media bias.

At least everyone knows where Al - Jazeera stands. Not so with fox, a very crafty network.

July 27, 2008 1:04 PM

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