Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged on Monday (1 April) to shutter the local office of Qatari satellite television network Al Jazeera while the war in Gaza continues.
Hours after his party spokesperson said parliament would be convened to ratify the necessary law, the Knesset approved the bill allowing the temporary closure in Israel of foreign broadcasters considered to be a threat to national security.
Al Jazeera, which is funded by the Qatari government, called the Israeli measure an “escalation” and said it “comes as part of a series of systematic Israeli attacks to silence Al Jazeera,” according to a statement late on Monday.
the Knesset approved the bill allowing the temporary closure in Israel of foreign broadcasters considered to be a threat to national security.
The implication of that is beyond AlJazeera and war in Gaza. This means in the future he could shut off any news channel he want by calling it “a threat to national security”.
Israel is moving at fast pace toward dictatorship
It might not be a dictatorship, but it’s already a fascist apartheid state and should not be treated as a democracy by anyone.
How is a dictatorship treated as apposed to a democracy?
For one thing, you stop sending it weapons and funding with which to commit crimes against humanity, using “it’s the only democratic country in the region” as an excuse.
And a democracy should get funding and weapons for such things?
Like, if eventually it is published that Israel really is a democracy (hypothetical) would it make everything suddenly ok in your eyes?
And a democracy should get funding and weapons for such things?
No, but not pretending that it’s a democracy leaves one less excuse for the inexcusable.
Like, if eventually it is published that Israel really is a democracy (hypothetical) would it make everything suddenly ok in your eyes?
Nope. Crimes against humanity are always wrong no matter the perpetrators.
If something is inexcusable, excuses are irrelevant, so I still don’t get what democracy has to do with anything here.
foreign broadcasters.
I wouldn’t call that dictatorship. The U.S. wants to ban a whole foreign app, is that a dictatorship?
The reasons behind the ban are very different.
Mmm, I think both are labeled “national security”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_TV
an Iranian state-owned news network that broadcasts in the English and French languages owned by Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), the only organization legally able to transmit radio and TV broadcasts in Iran.
Sure, that’s what I’m going to believe.
What ?
the only organization legally able to transmit radio and TV broadcasts in Iran.
Do you understand how much pressure they are under to please the supreme leader?
Do you even understand that Iran has a supreme leader?
