1y ago

Netanyahu's Cabinet votes to close Al Jazeera offices in Israel following rising tensions

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1y ago

Israel orders Al Jazeera to close its local operation and seizes some of its equipment

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A healthy democracy for sure.
- Only the best democracies ban journalists. Ask anybody!
  
  Is this a set forward or backward from their previous stance of just kill them?
  
  Hmmm, this smells of orange filth.
You know you are on the right side of history when you censor Journalism.
- Don't you see, this is just woke fake news journalism!! (meaning, journalism I disagree with)
  
  About as good as any other definition of the word. I feel we are a term or two away from Idiocracy .
- To be fair both the US and the EU did ban Russian journalists, so it seems hypocritical to judge Israel here.
  
  I think you took the wrong lesson from that lol
  
  To be fair, the US is a piece of shit country.
  
  State sponsored and journalist that are admired by their peers is completely different.
Israel has lost all of my respect in the last year
- They should never have had your respect in the first place....
  
  When people recognize they were wrong about something, as smugly satisfying as it may be it's not actually helpful to tell them that they should have been correct sooner.
  
  You respected Israelis a year ago? Please catch up.
  
  edgy
- And just like with Russia, my soul bleeds for the people who have nothing to do with this...
  
  At least in Russia the elections were fake
  
  And who would that be? The exactly 1 IDF soldier that refused to fight? Because all Israelis are IDF soldiers.
Two years after israel closed the Aljazeera offices in Gaza
Can't have them recording information about their genocide.
- What was the prompt?
  
  Netanyahu is Hitler
A sign of weakness for sure
Well this inspires confidence in the Netanyahu Administration.
Unfortunately it's nothing new. They've already banned journalists in any place they could get anything revealing human rights abuses. If anything it's a portent of further Likud-led fascism cracking down hard within the borders of Israel itself.
This is what fascist dictatorships do. Israel is a fascist ethnocracy.
Only wants to hear how great israel is
"But I did not do anything, because I am not a journalist, and neither are they, really, and the thing they wear on their head is really dumb, unlike the thing we wear on our heads."
This is the best summary I could come up with:
An Al Jazeera correspondent on its Arabic service said the order would affect the broadcaster’s operations in Israel and in east Jerusalem, where it has been doing live shots for months since the Oct. 7 attack that sparked the war in Gaza.
The decision threatens to heighten tensions with Qatar at a time when the Doha government is playing a key role in mediation efforts to halt the war in Gaza, along with Egypt and the United States.
Relations took a major downturn nearly two years ago when Al Jazeera correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh was killed during an Israeli military raid in the occupied West Bank.
Al Jazeera is one of the few international media outlets to remain in Gaza throughout the war, broadcasting bloody scenes of airstrikes and overcrowded hospitals and accusing Israel of massacres.
While Al Jazeera’s English operation often resembles the programming found on other major broadcast networks, its Arabic arm often publishes verbatim video statements from Hamas and other militant groups in the region.
Sunday’s development immediately recalled Egypt’s shutdown of Al Jazeera after the country’s 2013 military takeover following mass protests against President Mohammed Morsi, a member of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood group.
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