Israel shuts down Al Jazeera’s operations, raids Jerusalem office

[robosmith]

Israel shuts down Al Jazeera’s operations, raids Jerusalem office

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Israel’s government moved Sunday to shut down the Al Jazeera Media Network’s operations in Israel, clamping down on one of the few international broadcasters providing largely uninterrupted coverage of the Gaza war.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the decision followed a unanimous vote by Israel’s war cabinet, posting on X that “the incitement channel Al Jazeera will be closed in Israel.” In a separate statement, he accused Al Jazeera correspondents of having “harmed the security of Israel” and said “the time has come to eject Hamas’s mouthpiece from our country.”

Israel’s actions placed it in the company of several autocratic countries in the region that have tried to stifle the network — which has attracted praise and controversy since it was founded nearly 30 years ago and helped reshape the media landscape in the Arab world.

“This is a dark day for the media,” the board of Israel’s Foreign Press Association said in a statement. “This is a dark day for democracy.” 

Who agrees with Netanyahu's claim that killing the last couple of hundred Hamas members SOLVES an EXISTENTIAL THREAT?
 

[Rebound]

The same people that finance Al Jazeera are the people who got weapons into Gaza.  

[gatomontes99]

Really, if you want to shut down Hamas, ya gotta invade Qatar.

[robosmith]

13 minutes ago, gatomontes99 said:

Really, if you want to shut down Hamas, ya gotta invade Qatar.

You don't even understand that it was Netanyahu who gave Qatar to go ahead to continue FUNDING Hamas with $MILLIONS, just weeks before the invasion. 🤮

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For years, the Qatari government had been sending millions of dollars a month into the Gaza Strip — money that helped prop up the Hamas government there. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel not only tolerated those payments, he had encouraged them.Dec 10, 2023

 

'Buying Quiet': Inside the Israeli Plan That Propped Up Hamas

The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com › World › Middle East

 

[gatomontes99]

Just now, robosmith said:

You don't even understand that it was Netanyahu who gave Qatar to go ahead to continue FUNDING Hamas with $MILLIONS, just weeks before the invasion. 🤮

 

So? That changes nothing. If you want to stop Hamas, you habe to invade Qatar. Or, at the very least, get Qatar to give up the Hamas leaders that live there.

[robosmith]

15 minutes ago, gatomontes99 said:

So? That changes nothing. If you want to stop Hamas, you habe to invade Qatar. Or, at the very least, get Qatar to give up the Hamas leaders that live there.

So the source of the problem is Netanyahu, his incompetence, and CORRUPTION.

[gatomontes99]

4 minutes ago, robosmith said:

So the source of the problem is Netanyahu, his incompetence, and CORRUPTION.

Wow. You really do hate jews, don't you?

[robosmith]

How is any of this making Israel more secure?

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War without coherent aims is lunacy. The way Israel is waging its war in Gaza looks increasingly shortsighted and senseless — just as Israel’s staunchest allies, including the United States, have warned all along.

Israeli forces are massing for what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vows will be an all-out assault on Rafah, the refugee-filled metropolis in southern Gaza, where the last intact Hamas battalions are said to be dug in. Meanwhile, however, fierce combat broke out this past weekend between Israeli troops and Hamas fighters in several places across northern Gaza — which Israel already pummeled, depopulated and theoretically pacified months ago.

Caught in the crossfire, as always, are Palestinian civilians. An estimated 300,000 men, women and children have been evacuated from Rafah in advance of the planned Israeli invasion, while another 150,000 are being told to leave the area of renewed fighting in the north. Where are all these people supposed to find food and shelter? How is any of this making Israel more secure? Or bringing the Hamas-held hostages home?

I believe Israel absolutely had the right to respond with force to the unspeakable Oct. 7 terrorist attack by Hamas, in which more than 1,200 Israelis were killed, some after being tortured, and more than 240 hostages were seized and taken into Gaza. But I agree with President Biden — for decades, a fierce supporter of Israel — that the way Israel is waging this war is ultimately counterproductive.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken pretty much summed up my view on Sunday during an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” He warned that Israel is “on the trajectory, potentially, to inherit an insurgency with many armed Hamas [fighters] left or, if it leaves, a vacuum filled by chaos, filled by anarchy and probably refilled by Hamas.”

It is true that a duly constituted Palestinian state in Gaza would pose a security problem for Israel. But what Netanyahu is creating instead — a state of total anarchy — is guaranteed to be much, much worse. 

 

12 minutes ago, gatomontes99 said:

Wow. You really do hate jews, don't you?

Back under your BRIDGE, TROLL.

[Rebound]

17 hours ago, robosmith said:

You don't even understand that it was Netanyahu who gave Qatar to go ahead to continue FUNDING Hamas with $MILLIONS, just weeks before the invasion. 🤮

 

I do understand that if Israel denied the money, you’d criticize them for blocking food and medicine from coming into Gaza… wouldn’t you? 
 

The terrorist group Hamas invaded Israel AND DECLARED WAR. When, in all of human history, was a nation criticized for responding to an invasion by a foreign nation?  Why is it that ONLY JEWS ARE’T ALLOWED TO DEFEND THEMSELVES? If Israel stops fighting today and leaves Gaza, Hamas will DEFINITELY murder more Israeli civilians.  You may think that Israel should sacrifice Israeli lives to save Palestinian lives, but I do not.  
 

Can you even name any historical accomplishments of Palestinians besides inventing modern terrorism? 

Edited May 17, 2024 by Rebound