On Sunday, September 22, 2024 at 03:54:25 PM GMT+5, Chas Freeman via Salon <salon@listserve.com> wrote:
FM: John Whitbeck
Transmitted below is a link to a report on the latest
installment in the Israeli government's war against truth.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/22/israeli-soldiers-raid-al-jazeera-office-in-ramallah
Heavily armed and mostly masked Israeli soldiers gave Al
Jazeera journalists 10 minutes to leave their Ramallah office
and tore down banners honoring Shireen Abu Akleh, the
Palestinian-American journalist whom Israel assassinated in
2022, before welding shut the office's doors.
As I recall, the legislation which has permitted Israel to ban
Al Jazeera from operating in Israel since May referred to
media operations "in Israel", which seemed to explain why Al
Jazeera has until now continued to operate in the occupied
West Bank, which (aside from expanded East Jerusalem) has not
yet been formally annexed by Israel.
As Israel ramps up its assaults against the people of the West
Bank, which have killed more than 700 Palestinians since
October, and as it may well be planning to intensify these
assaults still further, that annoying legal technicality
appears, in practice, to have been overcome. --
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