Their ABC and AL Jazeera

Funny how Aunty never mentions that Al Jazeera’s backers bankroll Hamas in Gaza

The Australian
July 25,2014

ABC News Radio yesterday:

THERE is a strong possibility that Israel is committing war crimes … Al Jazeera’s Nicole Johnston filed this report.

Guess who funds Al Jazeera and which side they back? Armin Rosen, Business Insider, yesterday:

HAMAS’S apparent hard-line position ... with Israel is a partial function of Qatari support, as the emirate is the financial underwriter for the militant group’s policies and hosts ... Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal said in a Doha press conference — carried in its entirety on Qatari-funded Al Jazeera’s Arabic channel — that Egypt would have to open the Rafah border crossing as a condition before his group would agree to a ceasefire. It’s a request Egypt is unlikely to agree to ...


No mention that Al Jazeera’s backers fund Hamas? ABC News Radio’s Weekend Breakfast, Sunday:

AL Jazeera commentator Marwan Bashara: The Egyptian initiative for a ceasefire, that was ... an Israeli initiative with Egyptian wrappings. This time around, there’s a genuine, apparently, Hamas initiative ...


Al Jazeera interview with Dr Mads Gilbert. SBS World Radio News, Monday:

BRIANNA Roberts: A Norwegian doctor in Gaza, Mads Gilberts, told Al Jazeera people are growing increasingly desperate.

Gilberts: The Israeli forces do not allow ambulances to access those people who are trapped in Shejaiya. There may be more than a hundred or hundreds. We don’t know the exact number of injured in the area but the access of ambulances is a major problem. A father just came running with his daughter screaming that “we need ambulances, we need ambulances, we need ambulances.”

That would be Mads Gilbert, the doctor who supported 9/11. Kristian Sarastuen, Dagbladet, September 30, 2001:

DR Mads Gilbert: The attack on New York (on 9/11) did not come as a surprise after the policy that the West has led during the last decades ... The oppressed also have a moral right to attack the USA with any weapon they can come up with ...

Interviewer: Do you support a terror attack against the USA?

Gilbert: ... yes, within the context which I have mentioned.

No prizes for guessing which network Waleed Aly chooses? ABC Radio National, July 21:

WALEED Aly: Joining me now … Nic­ole Johnston Al Jazeera correspondent in Gaza ...

Johnston: ... Shejaiya (was) hit … more than 60 people in that one neighbourhood were killed, many of them were women and children … Israel has said that there is a so-called “terror network” — that’s what they’re calling it — of tunnels under that neighbourhood. The bottom line is that it’s still a residential area. It’s a densely packed area; it’s been full of civilians, ...
Aly: Israel is warning people to flee. Are they fleeing? …

Johnston: Yeah, they are, especially after this incident in Shejaiya …

Why didn’t they flee before? IDF spokesperson, July 20:

MANY days ago, we dropped this Arabic flyer warning residents of Shuja’iya to evacuate.

Sheltering in UN schools. ABC Radio National, Nicole Johnston, Al Jazeera network, July 21:

NOW the UN is saying that it has got 85,000 people in Gaza, inside some 67 UN schools, that they’re trying to shelter.

Good luck with that! UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, Tuesday:

TODAY ... UNRWA discovered rockets hidden in a vacant school in the Gaza Strip ... situated between two other UNRWA schools that ... each accommodate 1500 internally displaced persons. UNRWA ... unequivocally condemns the group or groups responsible for this flagrant violation of ... its premises.