Israel to boycott Al-Jazeera TV over alleged incitement to terror

12 March 2008

By Haaretz Service

Israel will impose an official embargo of Al-Jazeera television in the coming days, over what it has called the Qatar-based station's unfair portrayal of the Israel Defense Forces' operation in the Gaza Strip.

"The Foreign Ministry has held discussions on the matter, and decided to embargo the station," Deputy Foreign Minister Majali Wahabe told Army Radio, adding: "These reports are untrustworthy and they hurt us, and they arouse people to terrorist activities."

The Foreign Ministry plans send an official letter to Qatar requesting it investigate the matter, according to the radio. Israeli officials have until now desisted to meet with station representatives and its senior reporters have not been permitted to enter government offices in Jerusalem.

Israel claims that the television station has incited the Palestinian public with its reports and cooperated with Hamas over the latest period of military escalation in the Gaza Strip, the radio said.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement has also spoken out against the station. One of its leaders, Mohammed Dahlan, has of late organized a law suit against it for its alleged support for Hamas.

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Commentary

By HRM Deborah

A number of news agency whether with their consent or not had planted news by sources that where tying to incite the war to continue, even so far as to insult not only myself, the legal government of Palestine, but also the Jewish government.

I firmly believe that this was due with the fact that the Jewish people and the Palestinian people actually want peace and have friendship towards each other again.

As far as taking action towards these media agencies and their where a number of them, I am sure the real perpetrator’s of this form of black journalism will get tired and go down the road over time as their predecessors have done all through the war.

For it is my hope, they will get tired when they no longer or run out of material to defame the Palestinian and Jewish people.

Usually, on a general basis, Al-Jazeera is normally a very good news medium.

As a final note in regards to Mahmoud Abbas’s statements and his organization, If I was them I would not talk, for they always have had a severe form of Pinocchio Syndrome.