Al-Jazeera’s bias in favor of Hamas is being alleged by the Fatah Palestinian organization. The Israel Insider has the story. So does Frontpagemag.com
We noted this fact last July in one of our AIM Reports: “Al-Jazeera has played a clear role in the rise of Hamas (the Islamic Resistance Movement) and its Palestinian election victory in January. From the start, Al-Jazeera has been accused of undermining Yasser Arafat’s Fatah movement in order to build up Hamas.”
Israel Insider notes that ”One of Israel’s two leading television cable providers, Yes, decided earlier this month to drop BBC World in favor of Al-Jazeera English. The move represents a small coup for Al-Jazeera since the majority of its founding staff were trained by the BBC for a special Arab-focused section of the British media giant. BBC World will lose half of its Israeli reach on account of the change.”
It adds that, “The allegations of a pro-Hamas bent in the network might also spell political troubles for both Al-Jazeera and Israel. Hamas is staunchly opposed to negotiating with Israel and refuses to recognize the existence of the Jewish state.”
So the Israeli cable provider is making Israel’s existence and survival more questionable.
The answer is to drop Al-Jazeera AND the BBC.
Posted: December 22, 2006 at 9:23 am
It is getting to be a fairly common mistake — citing something on the wrong Al-Jazeera web site in order to make a point about the controversial channel endorsing something or other. This time, WorldNetDaily claims that a Jimmy Carter letter to Jews was run by Al-Jazeera.
But this is NOT connected to the channel. This is Al-Jazeera.com, which is not the official affiliate of the channel. If you read at the bottom of the page, you’ll see this outlet is based on London, not Doha, Qatar, where the channel is based. The channel’s official English site is here.
It turns out that Jimmy Carter himself was recently a guest on the Riz Khan show on Al-Jazeera English, where he was praised by several callers. This is the spin-off of the terrorist TV channel.
Al-Jazeera English has run a fascinating story about former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright saying that “George Bush’s religious absolutism is alienating Muslims worldwide and making US foreign policy difficult for many countries to accept…”
Albright is reported to have said that “I worked for two presidents who were men of faith, and they did not make their religious views part of American policy,” referring to Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, both Democrats.
The caption under a photo of Albright summed it up: Albright says Clinton never let his faith guide policy.
Posted: December 22, 2006 at 9:11 am
A UPI story began: “Most Americans can’t get Al Jazeera English, the new news network that U.S. cable and satellite TV does not yet offer. But Pentagon employees can.” It was about the channel being on closed circuit Pentagon TV. One can understand this, since the Pentagon needs to monitor the enemy. The key to the story came later, when Bryan Whitman, deputy assistant secretary of defense for Public Affairs, “said the Pentagon has adopted a ‘wait and see’ attitude before it will schedule appearances by many DOD officials on the new network.”
We waited and saw. As we noted in our column, ”The channel was very quick out of the chute in airing a terrorist video…”
That video, from the Islamic Army of Iraq, was about terrorists training to kill American soldiers in Iraq.
Why does the Pentagon have to wait to see more?
Tell Mr. Bryan Whitman to have the Pentagon boycott Al-Jazeera. Call 1 (703) 428-0711
Better yet, expose the enemy. Denounce Al-Jazeera English for airing that terrorist video.
Do we want to win this war or not?
Posted: December 4, 2006 at 7:14 pm
