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*** 7-Aug-17 World View -- Israel announces that it will ban al-Jazeera in Israel

This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
  • Israel announces that it will ban al-Jazeera in Israel
  • Al-Jazeera gives bitter, angry response to Israel's move
  • BBC vs Al-Jazeera: Which is more biased?

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**** Israel announces that it will ban al-Jazeera in Israel
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Al-Jazeera's Marwan Bishara (L) comments during the news conference of Israel's communications minister Ayoub Kara

Israel’s Communications Ministry announced Sunday that it will take
action to ban Qatar-owned al-Jazeera from both operating and
broadcasting in Israel.

In doing so, Israel has clearly and unequivocally taken sides against
Qatar and in favor of the countries that are currently enforcing a
land, sea and air blockade against Qatar -- Saudi Arabia, United Arab
Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, and Egypt.

Israel's Communications Minister Ayoub Kara made the announcement in a
televised news conference:

> [indent]<QUOTE>"Freedom of expression is a basic value, and I will do
> everything I can to protect objective journalism and freedom of
> expression, which is very important to me. But the events on the
> Temple Mount have put me in a position where I need to think about
> how I can secure the safety of Israel’s citizens, and that is the
> most important.
>
> “Recently, we’ve noticed that some outlets are not being used for
> free expression, but for incitement against Israeli citizens. One
> of these outlets, the Al Jazeera network, is responsible for the
> loss of some of our finest sons. ...
>
> A media, which has been deemed to be a supporter of terror by
> almost all Arab countries, and we know this for certain, we will
> take a few steps against it, to express our fight against
> terrorism and radical Islam, and our empathy with the sane Arab
> world.
>
> The freedom of speech is not the freedom of incitement. Democracy
> has boundaries as well. When it comes down to the question what
> precedes what, I have no doubt, I prefer citizens and soldiers
> alive in Israel. ...
>
> Lately, almost all countries in our region determined that Al
> Jazeera supports terrorism, supports religious radicalization.
>
> And when we see that all these countries have determined as fact
> that Al Jazeera is a tool of the Islamic State, Hamas, Hezbollah
> and Iran, and we are the only one who have not determined that
> then something delusional is happening here."<END QUOTE>
[/indent]

Although Israeli officials have discussed banning al-Jazeera for
years, the move gained impetus after the massive sometimes violent
anti-Israeli protests at the Al-Aqsa Mosque / Temple Mount in
Jerusalem last month. At that time, Israel's president Benjamin
Netanyahu accused al-Jazeera of inciting violence by encouraging the
protests, and wrote in a Facebook post:

> [indent]<QUOTE>"The Al-Jazeera channel continues to incite violence
> around the Temple Mount. ...
>
> I have appealed to law enforcement agencies several times to close
> the Al-Jazeera office in Jerusalem. If this is not possible
> because of legal interpretation, I am going to seek to have the
> necessary legislation adopted to expel Al-Jazeera from
> Israel."<END QUOTE>
[/indent]

There are two al-Jazeera channels, al-Jazeera English (AJE) and
al-Jazeera Arabic (AJA). Israelis say that the media source tries to
appear reasonable on AJE, but really incites violence on the AJA,
since few Jews understand Arabic.

Kara announced that he first would work to revoke the journalist
credentials for all reporters affiliated with al-Jazeera. In
addition, he would push to have al-Jazeera dropped from cable and
satellite services in Israel, and to close its Jerusalem offices.

The decision will not have immediate effect, since it would require a
vote by Israel's cabinet, and possibly the parliament (Knesset). Some
analysts are saying that Kara will have difficulty getting approval
for those measures, since many ministers and MKs strongly support
freedom of speech. Israel prides itself in claiming to be the only
democracy in the Mideast.

During this generational Crisis era, censorship has been increasing
around the world. Online blogs and discussion sites are being closely
monitored or shut down in countries like China, Iran and Russia.
Egypt jailed four al-Jazeera reporters for years, and one is still in
jail. Russia Today, which used to be a reasonably independent media
site, now publishes only state-approved propaganda. In Turkey, the
country's largest opposition media operation, Zaman Media, was shut
down and some of the reports arrested -- and this was several months
before the aborted coup occurred.

From the point of view of Generational Dynamics, nationalism and
xenophobia are rapidly increasing in countries around the world, as
these countries go deeper into a generational Crisis era. This trend
will continue, and will only be ended by war. Israel National News and Jerusalem Post

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**** Al-Jazeera gives bitter, angry response to Israel's move
****


In an official statement, al-Jazeera said that it had reported
violence at the al-Aqsa Mosque / Temple Mount, but had not incited it,
and they denounced Israel's announcement:

> [indent]<QUOTE>"Al Jazeera stresses that it will closely watch the
> developments that may result from the Israeli decision, and will
> take the necessary legal measures towards it. ...
>
> Al Jazeera will continue to cover the events of the occupied
> Palestinian territories professionally and accurately, according
> to the standards set by international agencies, such as the UK
> Office of Communications (Ofcom)."<END QUOTE>
[/indent]

However, what was more interesting were the 30-minute rants by chief
analyst Marwan Bishara that I watched on al-Jazeera English.

Bishara's biases are well-known: He hates Israel, he hates the
Palestinian Authority even more, he hates Egypt, and he loves Hamas.
So anything he says must be understood in that context. But I've
listened to him many times over the years, and he provides a window
into the thinking of Arab governments in general, though more recently
just the Qatari government.

So it's not surprising that Bishara said that Israel performed this
move on behalf of "Arab dictators," referring the four countries that
have implemented the blockade against Qatar, and that he praised the
2011 "Arab Spring" that brought down Egypt' long-time dictator Hosni
Mubarak, and led to the election of Mohammed Morsi and a Muslim
Brotherhood government allied with Hamas.

Bishara did not mention that Qatar, which is the wealthiest country in
the world in terms of per-capita income for its citizens, treats its
foreign workers brutally.

Bishara said that the move by Israel shows a "synergy" of
"dictatorships" in the Arab world and "dictatorship of military
occupation in Palestine":

> [indent]<QUOTE>"It is as if closing down a network will diminish
> violence, when everyone knows that repression and military
> occupation, and aggression is the reason for violence in the
> region. Not reporting it."<END QUOTE>
[/indent]

But by far, the most interesting of Bishara's remarks was his
ten-minute vitriolic rant attacking on Israel's Communications
Minister Ayoub Kara, the man who gave the televised news conference
that made the announcement.

Bishara began by pointing out that Kara is not a Jew. "He is an Arab
-- an Arab Druze," said Bishara angrily and bitterly. He attacked
Kara's intelligence by calling his performance at the news conference
"incoherent" and "irrational."

He said that Kara had risen in Israel's government go become a
minister by betraying Arabs and the Palestinians. He repeatedly
called Kara a "traitor" to Palestinians.

It was very peculiar rant, and it makes one wonder whether Bishara
would have been happier if the announcement had been made by a Jew.

However, there's more angle to this. During his news conference, Kara
said the following:

> [indent]<QUOTE>"I am the only one [in Israel's government] who is an
> Arabic speaker, who understands Arabic and my native language is
> Arabic. You cannot fool me with Al Jazeera English and Al Jazeera
> Arabic. I know how to identify how disturbing reporting becomes
> incitement instead of being free speech."<END QUOTE>
[/indent]

This is perhaps the part of Kara's statement that infuriated Bishara
most of all. Other Israeli officials have been "fooled" by
al-Jazeera's trick of broadcasting its worst incitement on al-Jazeera
Arabic (AJA), but Kara used his knowledge of Arabic to avoid being
"fooled," and see through the ploy. Al-Jazeera and Middle East Eye

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**** BBC vs Al-Jazeera: Which is more biased?
****


I've watched both the BBC and al-Jazeera for years. The BBC is an
invaluable source of information because it has correspondents in
countries around the world. Al-Jazeera is an invaluable source of
information because it has the best coverage of the Mideast. However,
it's very hard to be worse than the BBC in terms of bias.

During the George W. Bush administration, I was on a mailing list of
the BBC reporter Gavin Esler. Esler's mailings included the news of
the day, and also the "BBC News Joke of the Day." The jokes were
almost always designed to make Bush look like an idiot or a fascist.
Actually much of the news had the same objective.

The worst occurred in 2007, during President Bush's "surge" in Iraq.
The BBC, the NY Times and NBC News essentially became the public
relations agency for al-Qaeda in Iraq by coordinating their news
reports with the bombings that occurred in Baghdad. They did
everything they could to support al-Qaeda and get American soldiers
killed in the most appalling example of nearly traitorous behavior by
the press that I've ever seen, though it's hard to call them traitors
because they were the stupidest bunch of idiots imaginable. Later,
these media sources were completely humiliated when the "surge"
worked.

By contrast, the BBC were lapdogs for President Barack Obama. He
could start a war, get Americans killed, commit any crime, and the BBC
would excuse him and blame it on the Republicans. I've always
believed that if Obama had picked up a gun and shot and killed
Michele, then the BBC, NY Times and NBC News would blame it on the
Republicans.

Now, with President Trump in office, it's the same as during the Bush
administration or even worse. As I've reported in the past,
the BBC makes up whatever facts they
want. They have no morals or ethics, and they obviously believe that
they have the right to make up anything they want with impunity.

Now, as I've said before, al-Jazeera hates Israel. Al-Jazeera loves
the Muslim Brotherhood, and loved Mohammed Morsi in Egypt, but now
hates Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi. Al-Jazeera loves Hamas.

Al-Jazeera hates Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority, and
after today's rant against Ayoub Kara, I can finally see why.

Marwan Bishara was vitriolicly critical of Kara, even more so than
of the new Israeli policy. To Bishara, the great crime was not
shutting down al-Jazeera. The great crime was being a traitor to the
Palestinians.

And that explains why Bishara and al-Jazeera hate the Palestinian
Authority so much. Mahmoud Abbas has followed a policy of cooperating
with the Israelis to maintain peace on the West Bank, saving the lives
of both Palestinians and Israelis. To Bishara, that's a betrayal at
the level of the biblical Judas.

Hamas, on the other hand, wages war against Israel, and gets both
Israelis and Palestinians killed, although in the 2014 Gaza war, far
more Palestinians were killed than Israelis. To Bishara, that's GOOD
thing, because Hamas isn't a traitor the Palestinians.

Egypt is just as bad to Bishara because Egypt and Israel are
coordinating efforts to control ISIS-linked terrorist killings in
Egypt's northern Sinai, along the border with Israel. Once again,
that level of cooperation is, to Bishara, a traitorous betrayal of the
Palestinians.

When looked at in this light, we can see why Saudi Arabia is demanding
that Qatar end its support of terrorists. If Bishara's thinking
represents the policies of Qatar's government, then the Saudis might
well believe that Qatar supports terrorism.

So is the BBC better or worse than al-Jazeera? I report, you decide.

However, if things have gotten to the point where the Qataris believe
that it's better to let Palestinians be killed than to betray them by
cooperating with Israel, then things have really gotten very bad.

Related Articles


KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Israel, al-Jazeera, Marwan Bishara,
Ayoub Kara, Benjamin Netanyahu, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Egypt,
al-Aqsa Mosque, Temple Mount, Jerusalem, Hamas, Gaza,
Turkey, Zaman Media, Russia, Iran, China,
Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, West Bank,
Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, Mohammed Morsi, Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi,
BBC, Gavin Esler

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