There is another perspective on the war that needs to be explored. That of the Al Jazeera network. Not so much to understand the reasons for the war, but to understand the reasons of others. Not so much to see Al Jazeera itself, but Al Jazeera in me, the similarities between the technique of reporting events pro-Palestinian with what is increasingly being adopted by our televisions pro-Israel And pro-Western.
He immediately warns with an interim message on the YouTube Google cell phone: “Al Jazeera is supported in whole or in part by government funds.” Qatar“. Actually the TV from Dohaborn in 1996, which has been broadcasting in English on an international channel since 2006, has the Emir to thank for it Tamim bin Hamad al-Thanii if you can use it 3 thousand people available in 95 countries 430 million householdsmore cell phones and PCs.
A small preliminary note to the editor: Qatar is close Hamas and the Palestinians and is the local rival ofSaudi Arabiacountry on the way there Israel along with United Arab Emirates. Trump card cornered Qatar to keep the Saudis happy, and Doha moved closer to Iran, which was a big supporter Lebanon From Hezbollah and in Palestine From Hamas. Essentially, the “master” of Al Jazeera is close to the Palestinians, rejected by the Western world, and the Iranians, arch-enemies of the US and Israel.
Reporting on the war Hamas-Israel That began on Sunday is a live “political” test of positioning the Doha network for viewers across the Arab world. Just listen to the commentary of the guest selected for hot commentary, the American journalist of Palestinian origin Ali AbunimahFounder of Electronic Intifada as well as ideologue of individual stateto understand the current situation. For him, Israel is committing apartheid and genocide and “the crimes are not only in its hands, but also in his hands.” Joe Biden and the Europeans who support and finance the government.” As the images of the kidnappings and murders a few hours earlier flash by on Sunday evening, he adds: “This is the result of ensuring impunity for a regime that does not respect the rights of Palestinians (…) we.” I must say clearly that Israel and its supporters are the only ones responsible for what is happening and that they are reaping what they have sown.” The moderator thanks the guest in perfect English his contribution and for sharing his point of view with the viewers. Then there is Youmna El Saidthe young correspondent, famous for the rocket that hit a building behind her on Sunday live during the connection.
This isn’t the first time this has happened to her. On the Internet you can find another video from Turkish public television: TRT world, for which he worked in May 2021, in which, always with his helmet on his head, with folded hands and an emotional voice, he begs the viewers: “Please, I want to send a message to the world.” Before you judge us and say that we are terrorists, make sure you see the reality and the truth from all sides. Don’t just listen to the Western media and carry on like that. Listen to both sides. Don’t believe the Israelis’ messages without seeing our side…” At that moment, a building behind him exploded with a bang. El Said He shouted: “See the building that was completely destroyed by an airstrike, it is a 14-story building, Al Shoroq Tower.”
The fact that “we” defined them and theirs is expressed with great pathos and great effectiveness in their services. Youmna El Said made various connections from one of the 44 schools which are converted into shelters for accommodation 22,000 civilians and many children. As she says this, a group of children swarm around her, playing happily as only children of that age can do under the bombs, but with a ball in their hands. Youmna says the mothers received the message from the Israelis on their cell phones. They ordered leave their homes immediately before the attack. These children didn’t take anything with them and there are two thousand of them in this school and he says: “The fear is great because there is a police station opposite. People are afraid that he could become a target for the Israeli armed forces.” The host greets them with compassion.
It’s up to the former ambassador to the UK Husam Zomlot. The moderator starts neutrally (“Do you agree with what Hamas did?”), the diplomat doesn’t: “That’s not the right question,” and starts talking about the root causes of the Palestinian crisis, a mantra on Al Jazeera. Then the moderator asks the “right question,” that is, he asks whether the number of Israeli deaths will help international actors understand that it is time to change their attitude and take the right steps. So the 700 deaths in the reaction are “an opportunity for everyone to understand that the Palestinians have the right to fight and will do so and that the occupation must end and there must be a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.”
The professor from Cairo University comes and the moderator asks: “Why are Egyptian officers shooting Israeli tourists?” The answer is: “Because we have not seen a solution to this conflict for 75 years.”
Communication with the other Gaza envoy begins, Tareq Abu Azzoum. The young colleague with a jacket and helmet begins with “the crimes of the Israelis against the Palestinians” and tells of the fate of a family that was wiped out by an Israeli missile in which they were 22, including seven children. At a certain point there is an Israeli parliamentarian, Danny Danon. The moderator immediately asks him about the victims on both sides. He reacts like this: “You can’t say ‘on both sides’, we’re still counting the dead from an unprovoked barbaric attack by Hamas.” They kidnapped a two-year-old boy!” The moderator interrupts him: “You say an unprovoked attack, but shouldn’t we take into account the causes and effects of the 75-year-long occupation?” The parliamentarian replies: “We left Gaza 18 years ago complete. There is no Jewish community in Gaza anymore and look what happened. Hamas controls Gaza!” The moderator interrupts him again: “But they are completely blocked.” The parliamentarian replies: “Why don’t they take it out against Egypt, which they border on, but only against Israel?” Because there is no logic. Hamas, like ISIS, just wants to hit us” and concludes: “My opinion is that we must eradicate Hamas so that the money that Arabs and Europeans give to the Palestinians is no longer used to build tunnels and buy weapons becomes.”
The moderator turns to intelligence failures and Israel’s military problems, but it is the only debate where the discussion gets a little heated. Otherwise the commentators are just singing a song. Except him and the analyst Nimrod GorenHowever, who is also rebuked when he speaks of an attack that was not provoked by the host, the analysts are all on the Palestinian side. Marwan Bishara linked from Paris disagrees on something. The moderator asks Hamas a critical question for civilian victims. Isn’t this a tactical mistake? The host disagrees: “This is asymmetrical warfare. This will make Hamas stronger and Israel weaker. You resist an occupation and have no weapons, no planes and no atomic bombs. They use terror like all guerrillas in the world, but they are not terrorists.”
The correspondent from Ramallah, Nida Ibrahim, reminiscent of a pro-Hamas demonstration, sounds like one of the demonstrators as she lists the injustices suffered by the Israeli occupiers who have isolated each Palestinian town from one another. The situation is relatively calm, he explains, but tension is increasing. He then closes the piece and signs it with the name and network as well as the city “Ramallah, Occupied West Bank“.
There is room for Pope Francis, followed by a series of images from demonstrations celebrating the Israeli deaths. We start in Istanbul with the Hamas flags, the cheering crowd is even bigger San’a’capital of Yementhen that is Kuwait and finally Tehran with the corresponding one Dorsa Jabbari which shows the expressions of jubilation and the expression of support of the Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei.
In the evening the host connects with Refaat Alareer, a writer, is in Gaza. The moderator asks him to talk about the night under the bombs on Sunday. He remembers that he lives in Gaza a million childrenthat is, the 50 percent the population of 2.2 million. He gives the example of a family wiped out by Israeli missiles on the first night of the war: “There were 18 of them and among them were 9 children, so three generations were destroyed by a single American bomb.” It tells the story of the population’s life without electricity, without water, already very poor, without food for the next day.
Space for the London correspondent, Harry Fawcett, which focuses attention not on the Hamas victims but on the media coverage of their killing. The German media, he explains, gives the killing of a girl plenty of space. He’s talking about the 22-year-old Shani Louk. Fawcett remembers appearing in shocking Hamas videos circulating on social media. The images are not shown because they are actually too brutal. No details are disclosed about the girl of an Israeli father and a German mother who was killed while dancing happily in Sala Marasino a few weeks after arriving at Lake Iseo. From there she had posted a beautiful photo of the lake with the message “Bella Italy”, the faces and the hearts. There is no time to write history on Al Jazeera. For Palestinian families in Gaza, none of the pathos is felt.
To explain the technology well TV narration (which, however, is a reflection of the western mainstream media with roles reversed). Jan Egelandof Norwegian Refugee Committee, is committed to supporting the people of the West Bank. The moderator asks him his favorite question: about the true causes of the crisis 56 years old the Israeli military occupation. In short, why, he asks the guest, is there never any reference to the deep roots of the conflict in the comments of Western leaders even now? Egeland replies that today all politicians in the West will be talking about the Hamas attack and the right to self-defense Israel. Then he adds a reflection that is not so much a comment as a lesson in journalism: “We who are humanitarians, neutral, in the field, at the center of this crossfire, see what is happening: there are two polarized ones Stories.” On the one hand, mosques are being attacked, while in the west Israeli civilians and children are being attacked by Hamas gunmen. These are the two opposite images. Both stories they dehumanize the protagonists”. Maybe because it’s easier to kill them without remorse.