Every day al-Manar – Hezbollah television — reaches millions of Arabic speakers in the Middle East, Europe and North Africa with its messages of hate and incitement to terrorism. It’s not just against Israel and the Jews. Al-Manar also tells viewers that “America owes the world blood” and it encourages Muslims to volunteer to go to Iraq as suicide bombers.
Recently, however, seven satellite providers — based in France, Spain, Holland, Hong Kong, Australia and Barbados — decided that they would no longer help spread such poisons.
Two satellite companies continue to broadcast the station’s programming: Arabsat, whose largest shareholder is the Saudi government, and Nilesat, which is majority-owned by the Egyptian government.
The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies’ Mark Dubowitz and Roberta Bonazzi of the European Committee of the European Foundation for Democracy, have more in this article, which ran in the European Wall Street Journal last week.