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cbabe

(4,048 posts)
Sun Sep 22, 2024, 12:05 PM Sep 22

Israeli military shuts down Al Jazeera bureau in West Bank raid

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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Israeli military shuts down Al Jazeera bureau in West Bank raid (Original Post) cbabe Sep 22 OP
Is that what a Democratic country does? Eko Sep 22 #1
Yes. Yes it is. Beastly Boy Sep 22 #2
Is Al Jazeera funded by Hamas? Eko Sep 22 #3
You going to change your post about the UN and immunity Eko Sep 22 #6
No. Beastly Boy Sep 22 #8
No it was not. Eko Sep 22 #10
Yes it was. Beastly Boy Sep 22 #13
Im glad you agree. Eko Sep 22 #14
Huh? Beastly Boy Sep 22 #16
Quit making things up. Eko Sep 22 #18
I thought your question was, and I quote: "Is that what a Democratic country does?" Beastly Boy Sep 22 #4
So Al Jazeera and RT are the same thing? Eko Sep 22 #5
Obviously not. Beastly Boy Sep 22 #7
Nope. Eko Sep 22 #9
Nope Al Jazeera is not funded by a repressive sectarian monarchy or nope RT is not funded by Beastly Boy Sep 22 #11
Here, once again. Eko Sep 22 #12
You absolutely made it clear. Beastly Boy Sep 22 #15
Some people cant look past their own propaganda. Eko Sep 22 #17
Funny, I believe I met some of the people you are referring to. Beastly Boy Sep 22 #19
I disagree. People who knowingly or unknowingly post propaganda and refuse to correct it when shown the facts Eko Sep 22 #20
There are peope I know who are still waiting for the facts. Beastly Boy Sep 22 #21
Al Jazeera . . . Aussie105 Sep 24 #22

Eko

(8,324 posts)
10. No it was not.
Sun Sep 22, 2024, 04:08 PM
Sep 22

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

(10,919 posts)
13. Yes it was.
Sun Sep 22, 2024, 04:16 PM
Sep 22

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

(8,324 posts)
14. Im glad you agree.
Sun Sep 22, 2024, 04:18 PM
Sep 22

"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

(10,919 posts)
16. Huh?
Sun Sep 22, 2024, 04:28 PM
Sep 22

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.

Beastly Boy

(10,919 posts)
4. I thought your question was, and I quote: "Is that what a Democratic country does?"
Sun Sep 22, 2024, 03:42 PM
Sep 22

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

(8,324 posts)
5. So Al Jazeera and RT are the same thing?
Sun Sep 22, 2024, 03:47 PM
Sep 22

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

(10,919 posts)
7. Obviously not.
Sun Sep 22, 2024, 04:00 PM
Sep 22

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

(8,324 posts)
9. Nope.
Sun Sep 22, 2024, 04:05 PM
Sep 22

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

(10,919 posts)
11. Nope Al Jazeera is not funded by a repressive sectarian monarchy or nope RT is not funded by
Sun Sep 22, 2024, 04:10 PM
Sep 22

a repressive secular dictatorship?

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

Eko

(8,324 posts)
12. Here, once again.
Sun Sep 22, 2024, 04:12 PM
Sep 22

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

(10,919 posts)
15. You absolutely made it clear.
Sun Sep 22, 2024, 04:22 PM
Sep 22

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

I doubt you can make it any clearer.

Eko

(8,324 posts)
17. Some people cant look past their own propaganda.
Sun Sep 22, 2024, 04:28 PM
Sep 22

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

(10,919 posts)
19. Funny, I believe I met some of the people you are referring to.
Sun Sep 22, 2024, 04:37 PM
Sep 22

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

(8,324 posts)
20. I disagree. People who knowingly or unknowingly post propaganda and refuse to correct it when shown the facts
Sun Sep 22, 2024, 04:49 PM
Sep 22

Spread misinformation that can lead to bad things.

Beastly Boy

(10,919 posts)
21. There are peope I know who are still waiting for the facts.
Sun Sep 22, 2024, 05:01 PM
Sep 22

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

Weird people, aren't they?

Aussie105

(6,118 posts)
22. Al Jazeera . . .
Tue Sep 24, 2024, 06:57 PM
Sep 24

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.

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