PA orders Hamas TV off the air in West Bank

[Mosby]

The Palestinian Authority on Monday instructed its broadcasting authority to indefinitely suspend Hamas’s Al-Aqsa TV programming in the West Bank.

“The PA’s security apparatuses have announced officially to all broadcasters in the West Bank that they are forbidden from airing the Al-Aqsa network,” Hamas confirmed in a statement on Facebook.

Israeli watchdog groups have long-claimed Al-Aqsa TV promotes terrorist activity, teaches anti-Semitism and incites hatred of Israelis, especially in its programming for children.

Monday’s move was seen as an attempt by Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas to tackle Hamas “incitement,” and in so doing to curb the almost-daily clashes between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian rioters.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/pa-orders-hamas-tv-off-the-air-in-west-bank/

[leftynyc]

1. Interesting

I'll pray his bravery on this point doesn't get him killed.

[Mosby]

3. It's an admission of sorts

That the Palestinian media is engaging in incitement.

[leftynyc]

6. Which is why the usual suspects

are predictably absent from commenting on this story. How pathetic.

[shira]

8. Their comeback would be that this is the TimesofIsrael so probably not a true story. n/t

[denverbill]

2. What? Incendiary media drives hatred and violence?

Too bad America's government can't order our media not to do the same.

[Mosby]

4. This is a little different that Fox news

Radio announcer: "[Hebron] sacrificed a Martyr several days ago in the popular uprising, and now it sacrifices another Martyr, according to initial reports."
Song: "Blow up the executor's innards, bring back the period of Martyrdom-seeking (Istish'had, i.e., suicide bombings), rise and strap yourself with bombs"
Announcer: "Two more Martyrs (Shahids) today are watering the soil of the Hebron district with their blood"
Song: "Write in dripping blood: death to Israel! Write in dripping blood: death to Israel!"

[Radio Hebron Station, Oct. 29, 2015]

Song: "Load your machine gun and advance, son of proud Jerusalem
Gird yourself with flames and capture the soldiers
Load your machine gun and advance, son of proud Jerusalem
Gird yourself with flames and capture the soldiers
Open fire, have no mercy, shoot the Zionists!
Advance with your men, O keffiyeh-masked one!"
[Radio Hebron station, Nov. 19,2015]

http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=16419

[6chars]

7. Thanks for this factual perspective

People get awfully worked up about the things they want to get worked up about even though they are ignorant about them. To see this is to understand that this is a different playing field than we might assume from life in America.

[FBaggins]

5. So now we shift back to claims that the PA is really just an Israeli lapdog?

Just wondering.

[shira]

9. Shift back? That's been the claim all along by the Israel Sucks crowd.

Hamas gets much more respect from them than the PA, precisely because they stick to their guns (literally).