Nadene Goldfoot
Al Jazeera is a state-owned broadcaster based in Doha, Qatar, owned by the Al Jazeera Media Network. Initially launched as an Arabic news and current affairs satellite TV channel, Al Jazeera has since expanded into a network with several outlets, including the internet and specialty television channels in multiple languages. I've watched several programs, and thought they were doing a good job until I watched something about Israel. They, like so many others, did not reflect the history I know about Israel but something so foreign, I did not recognize it as Israel at all. They do not know our history. What they think is the old-everything is Israel's fault. 
Yusuf al-Qaradawi , now 94 years old, (Arabic: يوسف القرضاوي, romanized: Yūsuf al-Qaraḍāwī; or Yusuf al-Qardawi; born 9 September 1926) is an Egyptian Islamic scholar based in Doha, Qatar, and chairman of the International Union of Muslim Scholars. He is best known for his programme الشريعة والحياة, al-Sharīʿa wa al-Ḥayāh ("Sharia and Life"), broadcast on Al Jazeera, which has an estimated audience of 40–60 million worldwide.
He is also known for IslamOnline, a website he helped to found in 1997 and for which he serves as chief religious scholar. Sheik Yusuf al Qaradawi was banned from the USA before Obama took office. He is a big leader in the Muslim Brotherhood movement. He's also president of IUMS (International Union of Muslim Scholars). This is the man who has praised the Holocaust motivation and hopes to better their goals. He just issued a fatwa (religious ruling) to back Morsi, which is of course what the Egyptians are against, more religious rules or Sharia Law governing their country.
"In a 9 January 2009, sermon during the Gaza War, shown on Al Jazeera, Qaradawi prayed (as translated by MEMRI ):
| "Oh Allah, take your enemies, the enemies of Islam. Oh Allah, take the Jews, the treacherous aggressors. Oh Allah, take this profligate, cunning, arrogant band of people. Oh Allah, they have spread much tyranny and corruption in the land. Pour Your wrath upon them, oh our God. Lie in wait for them. Oh Allah, You annihilated the people of Thamoud (Sodom)at the hand of a tyrant, and You annihilated the people of 'Aad with a fierce, icy gale, and You destroyed the Pharaoh and his soldiers – oh Allah, take this oppressive, tyrannical band of people. Oh Allah, take this oppressive, Jewish Zionist band of people. Oh Allah, do not spare a single one of them. Oh Allah, count their numbers, and kill them, down to the very last one." This man, thinking he's so good and religious, spends his time teaching people how bad Jews are and incites them to kill Jews.  |
Our ancient ancestor, Moses, and then the prophets, wrote down their history. Their work was treated as holy and was protected as much as humanly possible. The Torah, the 5 books of Moses, introduces our Tanakh, or Old Testament, for that is what it is, a testament of what happened in the past of our wars, lives, everything, even genealogy.
One thing of interest in our written history; it is not always flattering to our Jewish ancestors. Our bad faults were written about as much as our good points and our victories. When King David erred, it wasn't covered up but exposed. This is true of all our kings and history. It's all validated-the good and bad.
You can look at Egyptian history, and they'd cover, literally cover it up and replace it with only good things. Many countries do such things. Good or bad, there our history is, for all to read. Truth won over. It's the same today. People are only too eager to tell everyone about Netanyahu's bad faults, forgetting to mention so many of his good ones. Exposure of bad things gains so many more readers!
Now history in the Old Testament is being verified over and over in archaeology digs, in other forms of writings. Even DNA establishes the truth in the fact that the line of Cohen Jews matches up with many Arabs who also have the Y haplogroup of J1. I'm saying that certain Jewish men were from the same father as certain Muslim men, making them very distant cousins! This is also in the Bible.
Jews should not have to prove over and over again our right to be living in the Middle East. Even 4 Arab countries making peace with Israel today must have decided they have reason to want to live there, and are now accepting them, something that hasn't happened, really, for the past 72 years except for Jordan and Egypt, their next door neighbors.
"Al Jazeera insists it covers all sides of a debate; for instance, the network says it presents Israel's views and Iran's views with equal objectivity. Al Jazeera has aired videos released by Osama bin Laden. In June 2017, the Saudi, Emirati, Bahraini, and Egyptian governments demanded the closure of the news station as one of thirteen demands made to Qatar during the 2017 Qatar crisis. Other media networks have spoken out in support of the network.
According to The Atlantic magazine, Al Jazeera presents a far more moderate, Westernized face than Islamic jihadism or rigid Sunni orthodoxy and though the network has been criticized as "an 'Islamist' stalking horse," it actually features "very little specifically religious content in its broadcasts." "
Bahrain is a country that has made peace with Israel." In May 2000, Bahrain banned Al Jazeera's broadcasts due to the channel's comments about Bahrain's municipal elections, labelling it as "serving Zionism". They also panned Morocco for making peace as well.
Does Al Jazeera have editorial independence from Qatar or others? Al Jazeera Media Network is a Private Foundation or Public Benefit under Qatari law. Under this structure, Al Jazeera Media Network receives funding from the government of Qatar, but maintains its editor. Critics have accused Al Jazeera of supporting the positions of the Qatari government though Al Jazeera platforms and channels have published content that has been critical of Qatar or has run counter to Qatari laws and norms. Al Jazeera's editorial independence has been affirmed by journalism associations and organizations including the National Press Club and Reporters Without Borders.
In 2010, United States Department of State internal communications, released by WikiLeaks as part of the 2010 diplomatic cables leak, said that the Qatar government manipulates Al Jazeera coverage to suit political interests.
In September 2012, The Guardian reported that Al Jazeera's editorial independence came into question when the channel's director of news, Salah Negm, stepped in at the last minute to order that a two-minute video covering a UN debate over the Syrian civil war include a speech by the leader of Qatar, Hamad bin Khali.
On 19 July 2008, Al Jazeera TV broadcast a program from Lebanon which covered the "welcome-home" festivities for Samir Kuntar, a Lebanese citizen who had been imprisoned in Israel for killing four people in a Palestine Liberation Front raid from Lebanon into Israel. In the program, the head of Al Jazeera's Beirut office, Ghassan bin Jiddo, praised Kuntar as a "pan-Arab hero" and organized a birthday party for him. In response, Israel's Government Press Office (GPO) announced a boycott of the channel, which was to include a general refusal by Israeli officials to be interviewed by the station, and a ban on its correspondents from entering government offices in Jerusalem. A few days later an official letter was issued by Al Jazeera's director general, Wadah Khanfar, in which he admitted that the program violated the station's Code of Ethics and that he had ordered the channel's programming director to take steps to ensure that such an incident does not recur.
On 15 March 2010, Channel Ten (Israel) broadcast a video story about the Coastal Road massacre on 11 March 1978, with two photographs of a victim and an attacker, both women, with Al Jazeera's logo. Photographer Shmuel Rahmani, who took these photos, sued Al Jazeera in the Jerusalem District Court, for copyright infringement of the two photographs. On 19 February 2014, the court ruled that Al Jazeera would pay 73,500 ILS to Rahmani. On 23 November 2017, a second verdict of 30,000 ILS against Al Jazeera was made in the Nazareth District Court.
At the end of 2017, a third lawsuit was brought by Michael Ganoe, an American Christian who has lived in Israel, in the Tel Aviv District Court, after infringing copyrights of his private videos of volunteering for the Israel Defense Forces, in which he was also compared by Al Jazeera to volunteering for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. On 15 November 2018, Ganoe won in a settlement deal 96,199 ILS from Al Jazeera.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera
https://jewishfactsfromportland.blogspot.com/2013/07/sheik-yusuf-al-qaradawi-pals-in-white.html
https://jewishfactsfromportland.blogspot.com/2013/03/muslim-brotherhoods-leader-qaradawi.html
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