Israeli military shuts down Al Jazeera bureau in West Bank raid

[cbabe]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/22/al-jazeera-office-west-bank-raid-israeli-forces-media

Israeli military shuts down Al Jazeera bureau in West Bank raid

Qatari broadcaster has been ordered to close office for 45 days, months after being banned from operating in Israel

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Sun 22 Sep 2024 11.38 EDT

Israeli forces raided the office of Al Jazeera in the occupied West Bank on Sunday and issued a 45-day closure order, the Qatari broadcaster said, with footage showing heavily armed and masked troops entering the premises in Ramallah.

“There is a court ruling for closing down Al Jazeera for 45 days,” an Israeli soldier told Al Jazeera’s West Bank bureau chief, Walid al-Omari, the network reported, citing the conversation which was broadcast live. “I ask you to take all the cameras and leave the office at this moment,” the soldier said.

Al-Omari reported that Israeli troops brought a truck to confiscate documents, devices and office property.

The broadcaster said the soldiers did not provide a reason for the closure order.

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[Eko]

1. Is that what a Democratic country does?

[Beastly Boy]

2. Yes. Yes it is.

That's exactly what a democratic country does.

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-60791734#:~:text=Russian%20state-backed%20news%20channel%20RT%20has%20had%20its,and%20proper%20to%20hold%20a%20UK%20broadcast%20licence%22.

[Eko]

3. Is Al Jazeera funded by Hamas?

[Eko]

6. You going to change your post about the UN and immunity

since it was wrong?

[Beastly Boy]

8. No.

Because it was right.

[Eko]

10. No it was not.

The UN did not claim immunity for those people, it claimed immunity for itself. The UN was being sued, not those people. The US government can claim immunity for itself but that doesn't transfer the immunity to all the people working for the government. Get it now?

[Beastly Boy]

13. Yes it was.

Who is suing UN? What heinous crimes did the UN commit that they would need to claim immunity for itself?

You are messing with me again, aren't you? Yawn, this schtick is getting stale.

[Eko]

14. Im glad you agree.

"What heinous crimes did the UN commit that they would need to claim immunity for itself? "
It did not claim immunity for the individuals but for itself. So change your post.

[Beastly Boy]

16. Huh?

Did you understand the question?

It did not affirm UN's claim of immunity. It questioned UN's need for it. Duh!

Guess what is going to happen to my post.

That's right, absolutely nothing. So quit making ridiculous demands.

[Eko]

18. Quit making things up.

The UN did not claim immunity for those individuals.

[Beastly Boy]

4. I thought your question was, and I quote: "Is that what a Democratic country does?"

Is Britain not a democratic country? Did they not shut down a news network of a repressive regime?

I am disappointed. You could have at least attempted to muster one relevant response before jumping head first into deflection mode.

[Eko]

5. So Al Jazeera and RT are the same thing?

Why did they shut down RT? Did they shut down Al Jazeera also? No? Because one is a state funded news site and the other is not. A Democratic country does not shut down a independent news site just because they don't like the reporting no matter how much you want them to.

[Beastly Boy]

7. Obviously not.

One is funded by a repressive sectarian monarchy and the other is funded by a repressive secular dictatorship.

Anything else you are unable to look up on the web?

[Eko]

9. Nope.

Al Jazeera has extensive reach across the globe and is available in over 150 countries and territories in more than 430 million homes. Al Jazeera is an independent news organisation funded in part by the Qatari government.
Qutar is also a major non-NATO US ally.
Nice try.

[Beastly Boy]

11. Nope Al Jazeera is not funded by a repressive sectarian monarchy or nope RT is not funded by

a repressive secular dictatorship?

Or is it no you have no intention to stay on subject?

[Eko]

12. Here, once again.

Al Jazeera is an independent news organisation funded in part by the Qatari government.
Qutar is also a major non-NATO US ally.
Is that the same thing as RT and Russia?
Did I make the differences clear enough for you to see?

[Beastly Boy]

15. You absolutely made it clear.

I concede, your clarification is still completely irrelevant to your Post #1.

I doubt you can make it any clearer.

[Eko]

17. Some people cant look past their own propaganda.

Even when facts are presented that contradict said propaganda. That or they are unwilling to because it is their aim in the first place to spread propaganda.

[Beastly Boy]

19. Funny, I believe I met some of the people you are referring to.

And no matter the subject, no matted how obvious it is, they just can't let go of their childish insistence on posting nonsense.

Since there is no end to their ranting, i just ignore them after a while.

[Eko]

20. I disagree. People who knowingly or unknowingly post propaganda and refuse to correct it when shown the facts

Spread misinformation that can lead to bad things.

[Beastly Boy]

21. There are peope I know who are still waiting for the facts.

For some inexplicable reason, they believe that gratuitous claims of something being factual does not make anything factual.

Weird people, aren't they?

[Aussie105]

22. Al Jazeera . . .

Watch that at times.

Seems balanced, but something is missing - the Israeli need to justify their actions because some real or imaginary Hamas or Hezbollah fighters/leaders were targeted, and the civilian casualty involved in this process can be ignored.

Al Jazeera is the only station that used the word 'genocide' to describe the Israeli action in Palestine.

Shutting down a news medium that doesn't fit your efforts to project a 'Good Guy' image isn't something a Democracy does.