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Old August 22nd, 2019 #4
Stewart Meadows
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Originally Posted by Crowe View Post
Probably because PressTV destroys the American Zionist media narrative. American media's only response is to silence the critics.
Exactly. My digital box used to have Press TV, Al-Manar (a TV channel affiliated with Hezbollah) and an Iraqi news channel that was run by Saddam Hussein's government, and they had informative programs in English (or with English subtitles). But eventually they disappeared - at the request of international jewry, of course.

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Al-Manar (Arabic:المنار al-Manār; English: the beacon) is a Lebanese satellite television station affiliated with Hezbollah,[1] broadcasting from Beirut, Lebanon.[2]

Al-Manar was designated as a “Specially Designated Global Terrorist entity,” and banned by the United States on 17 December 2004.[3] It has also been banned by France,[4] Spain,[5] and Germany,[6] and has run into some service and license problems outside Lebanon,[7] making it unavailable in the Netherlands,[8][9] Canada,[10] and Australia,[11][12] while it has not officially been banned in any of these regions.
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The channel was continuously struck by missiles during Israeli air raids. The Israeli Air Force attacks on 13 July 2006 led to injury of three employees.[22] The attack on Al-Manar's facilities shortly followed another strike against the Rafic Hariri International Airport in Beirut earlier that morning. Despite the attack, the station remained on air, broadcasting from undisclosed locations.
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The bombing of media outlets violates international law when they are not being used for military purposes ("it is unlawful to attack facilities that merely shape civilian opinion; neither directly contributes to military operations"),[24] according to Human Rights Watch.

This incident has been condemned by the International Federation of Journalists.[25] The Israel Association of Journalists withdrew from the federation due to this criticism, claiming that Al-Manar employees "are not journalists, they are terrorists".[26][27]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Manar