Israel’s shutdown of Al Jazeera could facilitate more settler violence in West Bank: Analysis

Rami Khouri, a distinguished fellow at the American University of Beirut, described Israel’s closure of Al Jazeera’s bureau in Ramallah as “deeply concerning”.
“This is very much in line with the whole policy of the state of Israel since 1948, which is to prevent real news about Palestinians or about what the state of Israel is doing to Palestinians, including colonising them and arresting them and torturing them. They’ve tried to prevent that news from coming out and they’ve generally succeeded for the last 40-50 years,” he told Al Jazeera.
“Their whole strategy is to produce a narrative about Israel about Palestinians, about Zionism, about the Arab-Israeli conflict, about terrorism, about the region, which says that the Israelis are good guys and the Palestinians and the Arabs and the Muslims are bad guys and they’re a threat. And this is a narrative that the Israelis have succeeded in disseminating all over the world. And the primary mechanism they’ve used has been the mass media, the Western mainstream mass media that includes well-known companies like CNN and BBC and The New York Times,” Khouri said.
He described Al Jazeera as “the primary instrument for informing the world about” Israel’s violations in Palestinian Territories.
“But [the Israeli government has] stopped Al Jazeera from broadcasting out of Israel a couple of months ago and now they’re stopping Al Jazeera from broadcasting in Palestine. And this is really concerning because it probably means that there’s going to be a bigger onslaught of Israeli Zionist militant fascist settler violence all over the West Bank,” Khouri said.

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