Thursday, December 15, 2005

Arab media mostly quiet on Iran-Israel confrontation

From CBS 2 Chicago:
The (anti-Israeli) comments by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, broadcast live Wednesday on state-run Iranian television, drew quick condemnation from Israel, the European Union and the United States.

However, in the United Arab Emirates, the top three Arabic-language newspapers buried the remarks deep in their Thursday editions, with no commentary. Newspapers in the country are government-controlled.

In neighboring Saudi Arabia, government-controlled newspapers picked up the statements from international news agencies and ran them on inside pages. They did not comment on them.

I checked out the al-Jazeera web site, they had an article about Hamas jumping up to defend the Iranian position against Israel.

And that's why bloggers (on the right) call it al-Jihad.

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