“The network broadcast footage of al-Dahdouh breaking down in grief as he peered at the body of his son in the hospital morgue. His wife, daughter and grandson were also killed in Tuesday’s strike, along with 21 other people.”
al-Dahdouh is Al Jazeera’s chief correspondent in their Gaza office.
And the USA is asking them to not show the horror of being bombed? Because it’s “inflaming public opinion”?!?
I can’t believe that was requested with a straight face, surely?
Guess which government called Al-Jazeera Islamist propaganda less than 10 years ago?
The media that’s had the most influence on me was a Qatari funded Al Jazeera YouTube video, “Inside the Jenin battalion”.
It did not have the effect on me they were looking for.
What was that about?
The jenin battalion
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Al Jazeera aren’t Qatari shills, Al Jazeera are Qatari.
Al Jazeera was founded by Sheikh Hamad ibn Khalifa Al Thani, emir of Qatar, in 1996 and is wholly owned by the State of Qatar. Qatar funds Hamas and Hezbollah to kill Jews, and all the news from Al Jazeera is meant to convince the world that Jews have no place in the Middle East, and no claim to Israel. It was the singluar reason the Emir of Qatar founded Al Jazeera in the first place.
It’s a single purpose propaganda organization.
None of this matters to the Jew baiters in the Fediverse though.
I block anyone posting Al Jazeera anything, you might well as title your post “Yalla, rape, kill, and burn all the Jews”. Fuck Al Jazeera, and fuck anyone that posts from it, knowing they target Jews for murder.
Cite your source please:
the news from Al Jazeera is meant to convince the world that Jews have no place in the Middle East
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You should probably read this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera_controversies_and_criticism
I get that there are controversies and criticism, but I asked for a source for a specific comment.
Do you think that Al-Jazeera is biased in favour of Hamas?
You’ll notice I have yet to take a position on either side. I asked for a source for a comment which doesn’t seem to be able to be substantiated. Have fun replying to yourself.
Here’s the thing, if you’re unwilling to admit that Al-Jazeera is biased in favour of Hamas, you have taken a position.
Have fun pretending to take the higher ground.
Hamas’ charter calls for the killing of Jews in Palestine. Al-Jazeera, especially Al-Jazeera arabic, is often outright pro-Hamas propaganda.
Oh, and for those reading this who think being critical of Hamas or Al-Jazeera, is somehow the same as defending Israel:
There’s plenty of evidence to suggest that for years elements in Israel supported Hamas. Causing division in the Palestinian side and undermining the PLO/Fatah, helped undermine the Palestinian cause. These latest Hamas attacks have also been a godsend for Jewish far right supremacists. Those who (inadvertently) support Hamas, are arguably supporting those who help undermine any chance of a free Palestine.
“if you’re unwilling to admit that X is biased in favor ofY you have taken a position.”
I mean yeah, but when everything is biased, and it sure as shit is, then you kinda have to take the good with the bad.
Everything you just said applies just as well as “if you are unwilling to admit that US media sources in general are biased in favor of Israel you have taken a position.”
It’s honestly odd to me that you think that the media consumed having a bias automatically means you agree with that bias.
additionally, it’d be odd if the govt owned media that reports to a government who wants to do what it can to help extremely disaffected minorities in nation-states where they are viciously oppressed. The fact that Hamas may be at fault doesn’t really figure in. Are they terrorists? Yeah kinda. Are there viable options that aren’t violence for them? Not really? Is that more than partially their fault? Sure.
Buuut does it matter to the US when our effectively state owned media decides to call the leader of a nation a dictator until he agrees to an oil deal with the US at which point he becomes a legitimate head of state?
GtfO with your oversimplification and demagoguery
You may as well change your username to “BLOCKME” at this point. You are not worth having conversations with.
Al Jazeera surely is biased in favor of Arabs and Palestinians. The Western media is also clearly biased in favor of Israel and western imperialism. Therefore, it’s an important non-western perspective for trying to understand a complex issue, particularly for Americans who know more about the Kardashians than they know about what’s happening in the world.
So what? Aren’t we allowed to read from different sources from different sides and make up our own minds? This Arab=automatically bad rhetoric is stupid and gets older every minute.
👻 - al jazeera
In all seriousness, i dont know why people expect an arabic first news org to not espouse arab first news. It would be like going to the Vatican for news coverage about attacks on Catholic peoples
Al-Jazeera isn’t just biased in favour of Arabs or Palestinians. If that was the case, Fatah (and other governments in the middle-east) wouldn’t have repeatedly accused them of bias.
