{"id":2432,"date":"2007-11-25T11:17:02","date_gmt":"2007-11-25T11:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2432"},"modified":"2007-11-25T11:17:02","modified_gmt":"2007-11-25T11:17:02","slug":"2007-11-25-al-hurra-reality-check-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2432","title":{"rendered":"al-Hurra: reality check"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">I just got my satellite dish repaired and was surfing the channels. I came across Rob Satloff interviewing Dennis Ross about the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. So basically Satloff, head of the pro-Israel think tank WINEP, interviews Ross, former pro-Israel American diplomat who is spending his exile at&#8230; wait for it&#8230; WINEP. What channel was this? Al Hurra, where Satloff apparently has this show called &#8220;Dakhl Washington&#8221; (Inside Washington). Actually Satloff&#8217;s Arabic surprised me, although the accent is grating. But who am I to talk?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, apparently this is what I&#8217;ve been missing from not watching al-Hurra: Israeli tools. Satloff is basically a professional lobbyist, which actually makes him more bearable than Ross, who has been spreading his extremely skewed vision of Oslo \/ Camp David II for years, sabotaging reasonable US policy along the way, while pretending to some kind of statesman status (he is also advising both Obama and Clinton &#8211; another reason to vote Edwards if you&#8217;re a Democrat. <strong>Update:<\/strong> apparently Ross also advises Edwards. Oh well.) Apparently, the other regular feature on al-Hurra is Iraqi Shia propaganda, or so they say.<\/p>\n<p>But really, everything that needs to be said about al-Hurra has already been said by <a href=\"http:\/\/abuaardvark.typepad.com\/abuaardvark\/alhurra\/index.html\">Abu Aardvark<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">I just got my satellite dish repaired and was surfing the channels. I came across Rob Satloff interviewing Dennis Ross about the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. So basically Satloff, head of the pro-Israel think tank WINEP, interviews Ross, former pro-Israel American diplomat who is spending his exile at&#8230; wait for it&#8230; WINEP. What channel was this? Al Hurra, where Satloff apparently has this show called &#8220;Dakhl Washington&#8221; (Inside Washington). Actually Satloff&#8217;s Arabic surprised me, although the accent is grating. But who am I to talk?<br \/>\nAnyway, apparently this is what I&#8217;ve been missing from not watching al-Hurra: Israeli tools. Satloff is basically a professional lobbyist, which actually makes him more bearable than Ross, who has been spreading his extremely skewed vision of Oslo \/ Camp David II for years, sabotaging reasonable US policy along the way, while pretending to some kind of statesman status (he is also advising both Obama and Clinton &#8211; another reason to vote Edwards if you&#8217;re a Democrat. <strong>Update:<\/strong> apparently Ross also advises Edwards. Oh well.) Apparently, the other regular feature on al-Hurra is Iraqi Shia propaganda, or so they say.<br \/>\nBut really, everything that needs to be said about al-Hurra has already been said by <a href=\"http:\/\/abuaardvark.typepad.com\/abuaardvark\/alhurra\/index.html\">Abu Aardvark<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[60,92],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}