Israelis Take Over Hamas' TV Station

[tekisui]

Source: Wired

Israeli Defense Forces took over Hamas' Al-Aqsa television station over the weekend -- the latest blow in a increasingly-sophisticated information war over Gaza.

The channel became infamous in 2007 for broadcasting a children's show featuring "Farfour," an anti-semitic Mickey Mouse look-a-like. But the Israeli military considered al-Aqsa to be a serious enough propaganda threat that the station's main studios were hit on the second day of the latest air campaign against Hamas.

According to Israel's Channel 10, the IDF hacked into Al-Aqsa Sunday, and began broadcasting an animated clip of Hamas' leadership being gunned down. "Time is running out," the clip warned, in Arabic.

The day before, AFP reports, a "broadcast on Al-Aqsa television was interrupted with an image of a ringing phone that no one was answering." 'Hamas leaders are hiding and they are leaving you on the front line,'" a voice in "Hebrew-accented Arabic" said. Similar messages were sent out on Al-Aqsa radio, as well.

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/01/israelis-take-o.html

[davefromqueens]

1. Palestinians were given a state in 1948

As was Israel.

but the palestinians decided to try and wipe out israel.

In defense of itself, Israel took that land in war, something they have every legal right to.

Many of Israel's neighbors refuse to recognize Israel's current borders.

While Israel is not blameless, they get the benefit of the doubt in my book.

[tekisui]

2. Not sure what that has to do with Israel taking the station,

but, ok.

[IndianaGreen]

3. What settlement did you rear your empty head from?

Your post is so ignorant of the real history of the region that it merits the shredder.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

4. And, the United States gave the Sioux Pine Ridge.