US Congress stand on Al-Aqsa TV politically motivated, says Fat'hi Hammad

[ 05/07/2008 - 11:11 PM ]

GAZA, (PIC)--

Chairman of the administration council of Al-Aqsa satellite TV channel Fat'hi Hammad has condemned on Saturday the draft resolution of the US Congress to tag the channel as a terrorist channel, describing the step as "politically motivated".

"This is a clear political decision which aims at silencing every free voice attempting to expose the US and Israeli practices in the Arab and Muslim worlds" asserted Hammad in a statement he issued in Gaza, and a copy of which was obtained by the PIC.

He also explained that prime mover behind that decision was to serve the "Zionist occupation" that aims at gagging the channel being a pro-resistance channel, and highlighting the Palestinian issue and the suffering of the Palestinian people under the Israeli occupation.

Hammad also highlighted the role of the channel in demonstrating the true picture of the Palestinian issue, and of bringing it back to become the central issue of the Arab and Muslim Ummah "as it was before".

The US decision comes few days after Arab Information ministers decided to limit the freedom level of the satellite TV channels in the Arab world although most of those TV channels had opposed the decision because it suppresses their free voice to the public.

In this regard, Hammad called on Arab TV channels opposing the decision to form a "united impedance front" to block the implementation of the decision, asserting that the USA had a bad record in targeting the free voices in the Arab world.

Substantiating his charges, Hammad cited the US bombing of offices of Al-Jazeera satellite TV channel in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the detention of Al-Jazeera cameraman Sami Al-Haj for seven years without trial in the ill-reputed US Guantanamu concentration camp.

As far as the alternatives his group would take to block the US decision, Hammad underlined that the channel administration would contact the Arab League being the owner of the Arabsat satellite so as to ensure continuation of broadcasting.

He also urged Arab regimes and media organizations in the Arab world not to bow to the US dictates and pressures, calling for establishing and Arab and Muslim public opinion defending and supporting the Palestinian cause and the resistance media.

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