{"id":2655,"date":"2008-03-13T01:47:22","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T01:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/media-news\/israel-to-boycott-al-jazeera\/2655\/"},"modified":"2008-03-13T01:47:22","modified_gmt":"2008-03-13T01:47:22","slug":"israel-to-boycott-al-jazeera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/media-news\/israel-to-boycott-al-jazeera\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel to boycott Al-Jazeera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\" id=\"ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_lblBody\"><strong>Israel will boycott Al-Jazeera over what it calls the channel&#8217;s &#8216;biased coverage&#8217; of the regime&#8217;s military operation in Gaza. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The regime&#8217;s foreign ministry has held discussions on the matter and decided to impose an official embargo on the Qatar-based station in the coming days, deputy foreign minister Majali Wahbe told Army Radio on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry claimed that Al-Jazeera, in cooperation with Hamas, is inciting the Palestinian nation with broadcasting what Israel believed was a &#8216;staged candlelight protest&#8217; that followed the regime&#8217;s decision to cut electricity and gas supplies to the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have discussed this problem and I have decided that we will boycott this channel as its partial coverage is not credible and is damaging to us,&#8221; said the deputy foreign minister.<\/p>\n<p>He announced the regime&#8217;s plan to launch an Arabic language channel which would reflect Israel&#8217;s viewpoints and said the regime&#8217;s officials will no longer give interviews to Al-Jazeera.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail.aspx?id=47146&amp;sectionid=351020202\">SB\/MMN<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel will boycott Al-Jazeera over what it calls the channel&#8217;s &#8216;biased coverage&#8217; of the regime&#8217;s military operation in Gaza. The regime&#8217;s foreign ministry has held discussions on the matter and decided to impose an official embargo on the Qatar-based station in the coming days, deputy foreign minister Majali Wahbe told Army Radio on Wednesday. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[67],"class_list":{"0":"post-2655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-media-news","7":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}