Al Jazeera makes a strong comeback covering the Israel-Hamas war, while facing criticism and restrictions from Israel and the US.
According to several sources, during his 13 October visit to Doha, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken asked the Qatari Prime Minister to “tone down‘s coverage”. Blinken justified this by calling the channel’s programs “full of anti-Israeli incitements”.
Its strong comeback since 7 October and the start of the ongoing Israel-Palestine war is reminiscent of other major historical events that have marked the channel’s development. Since covering the 1998 US strikes on Iraq,Claiming free speech and pluralism, its slogan ‘opinion… and the other opinion’ makes no secret of the channel’s interest in highlighting both the discourse of official representatives and that of political opponents — including the most extreme.
then succeeded in uniting Arabs behind a common cause. It is a first, some say, “since the Egyptian diva Umm Kulthum gave concerts on the radio”. The channel thus gained a reputation for providing “fair” treatment of the conflict and its image as a pan-Arab channel was strengthened. On this issue as on so many others, it undoubtedly plays a major role today in shaping Arab public opinion.
One thing is certain: for the small emirate, the channel is, as Nourredine Miladi says, “a new product, much more valuable than its gas and oil combined”. It has. The researcher emphasises that “the channel’s independence from Qatar’s political constraints is regularly criticised”.is editorially independent, it is “in perfect accord with Qatar’s ambition to become a key mediator in regional debates”, Miladi says.
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