Al-Aksa TV ordered off French airwaves
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France’s broadcasting authority has ordered a satellite broadcaster to stop carrying Hamas’ Al-Aksa TV network.
The authority, known as the CSA, ordered the French-owned Eutelsat, the world’s third largest satellite company, to stop broadcasting the terrorist organization’s television network because it violates French and European media law against incitement to hatred or violence on the grounds of race, religion or nationality.
The satellite company was formally warned over the violations of European laws late last year and on prior occasions.
The Treasury Department named Al-Aksa TV a global terrorist entity in March. Hamas finances and controls Al-Aksa TV, according to the department, and senior Hamas operatives and officials compose the leadership of Al-Aksa TV. — jta
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06/19/2010 at 04:24 PM
When Jacques Chirac was president of France, Yasser Arafat was always given a big state welcome and Chirac would meet him at the airport and literally kiss him.
The current president of France, Nicholas Sarkozy, is of the same Gaullist party as Chirac and served in his cabinet.
But he is a universe apart from Chirac who was prosecuted on charges of corruption. One cannot help but wonder if any of Arafat’s billions wound up in Chirac’s pocket.
In Sarkozy the French seem to have found an honest man.
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