Two wrongs don’t make a right.

 Subject: Two wrongs don’t make a right.

Al Jazeera appears to have been taken off air and none of our local news channels see fit to report it.

Israel had threatened to impede the broadcast of any of what it sees as biased, misinformed news that misrepresents the ongoing war in Gaza.

Remember RT the broadcast arm of the Russian state which was shut down in this country and robbed us of insights into Russian thinking if not so much investigating the conditions in Russia.

Al Jazeera is a 24/7 day broadcaster with its head office in Quatar it also broadcasts an English language service from London. This morning as I went for my News round up the screen where I usually tune into Al Jazeera was blank and when I searched Google for a reason it said that Isreal’s were finalising the plans to shut down Al Jazeera’s Gaza office from where we gain most footage of what’s going on there.

There is always the issue of bias in reporting any story but unless Al Jazeera have replicated some sort of Hollywood style screen set  the pictures of bombed out neighbourhoods or the constant stream of wounded people, particularly innocent children rushed into partially destroyed hospitals then we must be allowed to believe our eyes, no matter how disturbing it is.

I always believe on making up my own mind by simply watching and listening to the full range of media outlets, some you weight with more prejudice than others. The new kids on our block, ‘Talk TV’ and its competitor GB News which started about the same time both encourage the political right wing  and are not limited, as the BBC is in remaining factually impartial with both reporters and presenters inhibited in expressing their own view. Some high profile BBC veteran presenters have been fired for appearing to support a political opinion, unlike their adversaries on GB News and Talk TV the who openly criticise the news depending on their own bias. It’s part of a move to emulate media channels, such as X by encouraging  a free-for- all by bringing commentary from every spectrum irrespective of how disabling it is ‘in the cause of freedom of speech.

“Al Jazeera has just come on air” so I don’t know what happened but there was a significant break in service and my twitchy antenna feared the worst.

The channel resumes its expose of this humanitarian disaster, especially in the hospitals but also in the deprivation of food and water to the Gaza population as a whole.

Your mindset must allow, historically the sympathetic cultivation of support for Isreal as a state for beleaguered Jews to settle in after their terrible experience as nation which experienced the Holocaust but in allowing Isreal to break international conventions in its fight for survival it risks losing that support.

Thats not to condone Muslim extremist’s, such as Hamas, Hizballah, Boko Haram, ISIS and many other groups who commit atrocities in the name of Allah. But the old adage “two wrongs don’t make a right” is never more important than now.