"Meanwhile, reports of attacks on Israel are normally covered briefly and in a sterile manner, with no proportion to the descriptions of what is happening in Gaza." Let me guess.. Maybe because... The dozen of hamas rockets and the 4 killed in israel are with no proportion with the hundreds of bombs and killed, thousands of injuried and the consequences of the blocade in Gaza ? I would add that most israeli medias cover briefly, in a sterile manner, attacks of sirael in gaza, with no proportion to the cover of the few hamas rockets and their victims.

Your argument is irrelavent .

verbal criticism of the government was a two year prison sentence offense. In World War II, Tokyo Rose, was a radio announcer who tried to demoralize Allied troops. She was tried as a war criminal after the war. Of course, Al Jazeera stations should be banned in Israel during wars and any other time. America needs to go back to the days of banning religions and political parties that advocate the violent overthrow of the US government. Israel should do the same.

You are an occupation force and people will always side with the victims who are the palestinians. You are living in their homes in Isreal and they are living in refugee camps in Gasa. Give them back their rights and the media will change.

We know Al-Jazeera is hostile, biased, & probably supports jihad as well. But in truth, how much worse is it than the BBC or CNN? How much worse is it than Haaretz? Personally, I'll take Al-Jazeera over Haaretz any day. The way to handle Al-Jazeera is to get good English & Arabic-speaking spokesmen, tough, knowledgeable, self-confident spokesmen, & broadcast our message to the Arab world, without pulling any punches. Not the usual collection of apologetic, politically correct wimps we usually put on the air but articulate & bluntly honest spokesmen. Al-Jazeera can be used - we should see it as an opportunity.

Dr. Keidar you are my hero. You are so knowledgable, with outstanding courage!. I can recall watching one of your interviews given to Al-Jazeera and I was so impressed with the manner and fluency (In Arabic) you answered every qustion and misinformation that was made by the moron who interviewed / attacked you. I agreed with every word you wrote in your article today. Stunning! you should be our next Israeli representative in the UN. I God Bless you!

Well, looking at Frace 2 reports and lies I can understand where you come from Victor. And in no way we will apoligize for the fact that we don't have "enough dead Jews" top satisfy the biased media! This is NOT because of Hama's lack of trying , but because we are more preared and INTERESTED in protecting our citizens! Hamas has continuously fired more than 4000 rockets into Israeli communities over the last 8 years. The fact that they did not manage to kill enough of us to make you happy is not because they did not try! According to the International Law, that contimuous shooting is a Crime Against Humanity since it brutalized and terrorized an entire generation of children and people who lived under teh rain of rockets for 8 years! And Israel did not react! There is NOTHING compareble to this in the history! Now we have decided that since people like you who would like to see more Jewish blood to be satisfied, will not act to stop these crimes. This time WE WILL TAKE CARE OF OURSELVES. And since you did not protest those 4000 rockets when they were fired at us, we will also IGNORE your pathetic propaganda in our forums. Get lost creep!

We are living in our homes in Israel and they live in THEIR homes in GAZA! They got tens of billions of Dollars in aid from freaks like yourself and EU but instead of building their homes they bought more and more weapons and rockets which they've been raining on us for the last 8 years. They have all the right to build their future - we don't have to give them anything! We are not present in Gaza anymore and they have a common border with Egypt under THEIR control! We supplied them with work, money, electricity, water and gas, but instead they decided to try to destroy us. Hamas' charter calls for the destruction of Israel - not for regognizing Israel and peaceful coexistence! Once malicious vermin like yourself start seeing EVERYHING in context and not through racist eyes, maybe media will change. Until then, we will ACT and defend ourselves against attacks both from brutal terrrorists and racist agitators like yourself regardless of what scum like you say, do or think.

There is no reason to let Al-Qaeda Network to operate in Israel. The Foreign Ministry has to build an Arab-language TV/News station and broadcast our message to the Arab world - without the racist and distorted filters of BBC, CNN and Al-Jazeera.

Shut down Ha'aretz and the BBC long before Al-Jazeera. They are far worse propagators of lies.

who listens to them--the cnn and new york times are official''jihad journals'' of record and cant be shut down---just keep putting out truth of self-defese and of iran's role

It isn't important what al-Jazeera or any Arab or Moslem says on what is going on in Gaza today, they had 8 years to say something about the kasams.

organization to have people in Israel. This news organization is not only a megaphone for Hamas but also provides Hamas with information that can and has been deadly to Israelis. Freedom of the press does not mean the freedom to advance the murder of people.....!!!

There are two sides, each with its own agenda. However while Jihadists completely control the media in Gaza and Lebanon, Israel allows hostile media to use its territory freely. The point is that those who don't believe in democratic principles are always the first to exploit them. We should grow up and understand that we live in a war-zone in which survival is above some abstract concepts (such as freedom of journalism for hostile arab channels).

How could you argue with ppl who kill children like a daily sport . history says this cant continue for ever .. one day you will pay back for being cold blooded criminals .. histroy never lies !

one man with knife against another with gloves??? so what about israel with all that very big weapon arsenal which includes nuclear weapons against basic home made rockets??? wish i can hear you say something about this unbalanced fight

Which is, of course, no surprise to someone who grew up in Dallas. "they are living in refugee camps in Gasa." Why? 50+ million worldwide refugees 1948-50. 800,000 Jewish refugees from Arab countries. Why were the 472,000 Arab refugees from the Arab war against Israel's existence the only ones not resettled? They're in camps created by their Arab "Brethren" in order for other Arabs to use them as pawns. It's that simple. It's an Arab problem every way you look at it.

Do problems with the lie of "proportionality". First, math. 10:1 is a proportion and, hence, proportional. More importantly is the meaning in war. It does not mean "If hamas lobs a rocket at Israel civilians, all Israel can do is lob a rocket at Pal civilians." Victor would certainly scream if Israel was that proportional. Proportional, in the meaning of int'l war law is: "Is the response proportional to the goal of the attackers?" Hamas, Fatah and Islamic Jihad won, in open and fair elections, 95% of the seats in the Pal parliament. All have founding documents calling for Israel's destruction. In attempts to achieve that goal, all directly attack civilians. That they also use their own civilians as shields does not prevent Israel from attacking the terrorists. Israel could have carpet bombed Gaza and chose not to. Instead, only 25% of casualties are estimated to be civilians, showing that Israel has followed the rules of int'l law in directly responding to government combatants in a proportional way.

They are no diffrent than every loud mouth piece funded by radical muslim terror group in Lebanon and the arab states... al-manar, NBN, NewYV, Otv,etc... in Lebanon...

So he doesn't like biased media: newsflash: all media is biased. If you're going to stop all biased media outlets from operating in Israel, then I guess you'd also need to shut down SkyNews, Fox (ha!), CNN, BBC, and perhaps even Yediot, for being unabashedly pro-Israeli. Right? Right. And, "a jihadi terrorist channel"? Grow up, Mr. Kedar. Buzzwords will only get this far. Pathetic.

All the venomous posters here complain about one things: there are not enough of us dead to warrant a tough defensive action! What a pile of racist crap! WELL, I AM HAPPY YOU ARE UNHAPPY AND WE ARE NOT GOING TO APOLOGIZE TO A GANG OF RACIST SCUM! The fact that we have better weapons and are more protective of our citizens (insteatd of having generals and politicians hiding in ratholes for the duration of the fight) is a source of pride, not a reason to apologize! Hamas should have thought about this before they started terrorizing generations of our children 8 years ago. Hamas, the crazed clerics and their acolytes have been literally ASKING for it! 8 years of incessant rocket barrages on our civillians is enough to get ANY normal country to WIPE OUT rats like Hamas mercilessly by carpet-bombing the entire Gaza latrine. What do we do? We bloody CALL them before surgically-bombing their weapons caches and launchers! Is this NORMAL? So no! You can bark your used-up slogans and racist rants all you want! We won't stop kicking Hamas butt until they are broken. Maybe after that, the Palestinians will have enough brains to elect leaders who use the BILLIONS in aid they receive to build schools, hospitals and create jobs, nd live peacefully instead of piling up weapons and dreaming of a GENOCIDE of Israel!

It is surprising the way al-jazeera is condemned. BBC fox cnn and all other israeli channel gives in news what they feel is good for them. Everyone in this world knows this fact. So i dont think this article will make any effect on reader who knows the truth anyway. Even israeli watch aljazeera when they want to know the truth. Dr mordechai is exposed and shows that he is the one who dont want people to know the truth.

Aljazeera actualy is the best news channel in the middle east, as an American I prefer waching Aljazeeran Int because of its high accurate information and professional performance, the west and israel have been lying on us for nearly a half of a centry claiming that israel is the only on democracy in the middle east, israel actualy is involved in war crimes againt humanity and we will soon be looking at Olmert, Barak, and others behind La Hague criminal court bars.

recently, haven't you?

I always read aljazeera english, and truely it's a great source of facts. no distortion in facts like in our israeli tv stations who get fed by IDF PR war. Israel always against any one who has different views than us. We want the world to believe our lies. Israel has been stating that this war is against Hamas not the palestinian people but israel has been destroying schools, universities, courts, mosques, fishing boats, roads, bridges, ministry of education, court house, and civil police....and yet we call it against hamas only. So who' stating lies!!!

You muslims/Palastinians know only violence and death, based on a religion of hate by a false prophet (mohammed). Of course the channel should be blacked out, stopped, its just another way to spread muslim hate.

been 100s of rockets not dozens but hey who cares about the facts?

To David from Rehovot, originally Dallas, you're absolutely correct, however, you failed to address the Houstonian's gross historical inaccuracies . Not to worry, I grew up in the shadow of the great State Capital building, and will handle that problem momentarily. Let me just say - David from Houston. Forget your apparent bias against the Jewish state for one moment, and ask yourself, as an American - Why would you support al-Jazeera? They've celebrated American deaths in Iraq since the war began there, and are the news network of choice for jihadists and terrorist sympathizers from Londonastan to Pakistan. Nonetheless, to address your claims that Israelis are living in Palestinian homes - I live in Jerusalem, the capital of Israel, in a home built by Jews in the late 1800s. Yes, there were Jews living in Israel before the creation of the state. In fact, the vast majority of Israeli cities have buildings built by Jews and Jewish families living there who trace their history in the land back longer than the "Palestinians" - a people whose national struggle was born out of ours - a response to Zionism which gained momentum amongst other ethnic and national revolutionary struggles of the 1960s. The bottom line here David, is that if Mexicans were firing rockets on Houston, the United States government and military would respond immediately, without enduring it for eight years, and stop the rocket fire in a complete and absolute manner - civilians be damned. Opposition to the plan would seem absurd, because the Mexicans fired first, and although the US army was hitting civilians, not purposely, but hitting them nonetheless, the Mexiacan government would be held responsible, for not reigning in the rocket squads and bringing the wrath of the US miulitary upon them. Your support for al-Jazeera and the Palestinian population of Gaza who supports Hamas and celebrates their rocket fire on Israeli civilians, only betrays your bias as an opponent of the Jewish state and a terrible, one-sided Arabist. Shame on you David, and shame on the city of Houston.