At the peak of the Iraq war, the Bush administration wanted to carry out military action against Qatar for financing the public media venture.
Al Jazeera has a history of extensively covering war zones, especially but not exclusively in the Middle East , which Israel finds hard to accept. that it had stop Al Jazeera’s broadcasts on cable and satellite and also blocked the media outlet’s websites.Shutting down Al Jazeera fits into a wider effort by Israel’s government to restrict freedom of speech and civil liberties amid this war.
“This is not the first time for Al Jazeera either, which was closed down and its offices attacked both in Iraq after the U.S. invasion and in Afghanistan. In both cases, the Bush administration, and specifically Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, branded the Al Jazeera reporters as enemies, even though Centcom was still hosted by Qatar, the owner and funder of the satellite station,” explained the former US diplomat.
“It’s a clear message to all international media that the Israeli government wants to control the narrative and suppress any journalism that contradicts its official line,” he told TRT World. “Silencing Al Jazeera is a way to intimidate other journalists and create a chilling effect on the press.”Shireen Abu Akleh, a longtime TV correspondent for Al Jazeera Arabic, was killed by Israeli forces in May 2022 while she was covering Israeli army raids in the city of Jenin.
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