Al-Jazeera has launched its English-language Web site, after previously operating a temporary site. It claims that its “team of dedicated journalists with their multi-national education and diversified backgrounds share a common set of attributes: objectivity, accuracy, and a passion for truth”. A brief journey through the site reveals a very different picture – subjectivity, inaccuracy and a passion for incitement. Some examples:
With an audience of approximately 35 million people – the majority being Muslims – swallowing this garbage, the prospects for peaceful co-existence between Israel and the Islamic world are very poor.Palestinian police seize resistance weapons
Palestinian security forces and police have launched an operation to confiscate “illegal”arms and to arrest violators, twenty so far, of the ban in the Gaza strip.
Israel threatens to annihilate Hamas
Israeli defence officials have declared an “all-out war” against the Palestinian resistance…The Palestinian Authority has been under Israeli and US pressure to dismantle groups struggling against Israel’s illegal occupation.
US-made Apaches attack Gaza City
Israeli helicopter gunships fired missiles at a target in occupied Gaza City Monday killing at least one person believed to be a resistance activist and injuring 25 others.
The foreigners who brave Israeli bullets
One warm August day, Juliana Fredman, a US citizen from New York, prepared herself to be gassed and shot at by Israeli soldiers.
At the Tulkaram wall demonstration, the Palestinian youth became caught up in revolutionary fervour and broke an apparent understanding not to unleash a hailstorm of stones.
