Hezbollah TV channel still on air<br />By Natalie O'Brien, Investigations editor<br />August 21, 2004<br />A HEZBOLLAH-BACKED television channel is still being broadcast across Australia almost 12 months after an investigation into allegations that it was raising funds for the banned terrorist organisation and inciting hatred of Jews.<br /><br />The Australian Broadcasting Authority told The Weekend Australian last night that it did not know Al-Manar was continuing to be broadcast in Australia.<br /><br />The nation's telecommunications watchdog also admitted that its investigation into the Lebanese channel had still not been completed.<br /><br />A spokesman for the ABA said the investigations had been given a "lower priority" because the company that initially provided the channel -- TARBS TV -- had taken it off the air.<br /><br />At the time it was removed, it was Australia's second-most popular Arabic pay-TV channel.<br /><br /><br />"We will consider what action, if any, should be taken now," the spokesman said.<br /><br />The ABA requested tapes of Al-Manar broadcasts after advertisements were seen that urged viewers to make donations to help the Palestinian cause, giving a bank account believed to be linked to Hezbollah.<br /><br />The Australian arm of French-based telecommunciations group GlobeCast TV has been broadcasting Al-Manar via the Optus B3 satellite.<br /><br />A spokesman for its Australian operations said Al-Manar was carried as a part of a package for GlobeCast. Viewers need only buy a $595 satellite dish and the program is available free.<br /><br />Al-Manar is the mouthpiece of Hezbollah -- or the Party of God -- an Islamic Shia group formed in Lebanon in the mid-80s to fight the Israeli occupation of Lebanon.<br /><br />The federal Government proscribed the militant arm of Hezbollah last year, calling it a terrorist group under the nation's new counter-terrorism laws. Anyone found belonging to, training, funding or recruiting members for the group could be jailed for up to 25 years.<br /><br />Hezbollah, which is also banned in Britain, Canada and the US, has been blamed for launching suicide attacks against Israelis and US and Western targets.<br /><br />Executive Council of Australian Jewry president Jeremy Jones said it was "outrageous" that Al-Manar was still being broadcast.<br /><br />Mr Jones said the Al-Manar screening last year of a mini-series called al-Shatat, about a Jewish conspiracy to rule the world, was "a clear breach of standards".<br /><br />"The way they describe Jews is designed to incite racial hatred," he said.<br /><br />Mr Jones said the broadcasting authority should take more responsibility and check on what programs were being shown. "You should not be doing any favours for people promoting hatred just because they use new technology."<br /><br />But telecommunications experts told The Weekend Australian yesterday that even if GlobeCast were forced to remove Al-Manar from its free-to-air program packages, it would be impossible to stop people tuning into the program with their own satellite dishes.<br /><br />The broadcasting authority spokesman said it had no jurisdiction over programs broadcast from outside Australia.<br /><br /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Confused]" src="images/icons/default/confused.gif" /> <br /><br />If funny you put this on the Forum only 3 day after Natalie O'Brien contacted me to find out was Al-Manar still running on Optus B3. Maybe she thought it was on the new UBI mux. Now you read it and it says Quote:<br /><br />"Mr Jones said the Al-Manar screening last year of a mini-series called al-Shatat, about a Jewish conspiracy to rule the world, was "a clear breach of standards"."<br /><br /><br />Well is it true???? Are Jews trying to control the World or Not. long ago on SBS TV A Jewish person said clearly that one Jew is worth 4 Australians. Now why would some fuckwit want to say that on Australian Television, where most 95% of Australians would not give a shit about Jews or Arabs.<br />But now you ask some of the guys you work with that don't care and they saw that on SBS straight away they say to you I would like to smack that prick in the mouth.<br /><br />Reporters like investigating. What I would like is a reporter to dig deep into financial dealings around the world of JEWS. Also this is a question I would like answered for all to read, it was asked at a High School 70% of a class knew what Adolph Hitler did to the Jews in WW2, but did you know that nobody in the class knew why Adolph Hitler wanted to exterminated the Jews in the first place.<br />For me all that region is the arsehole of the World and when you hear that it is Gods country and you hear God this and God that it make me PUKE.<br />If God was really around and looking at us from space what would you really think he would be saying: a place where madness prevails. Murder by the truck load happens every day, than what do they do? they pray to God.<br />Please God If you're reading this Just remove those troubled places from the Middle East. They are a disgrace to ANY GOD FROM and NOT FROM THIS EARTH.<br />Now for Natalie she is only doing her Job but what most dont know is the paper "The Australian" is owned by Rupert Murdoch and someone told me he could possibly be a Jew. Does anyone know???<br />Now did Natalie decide on her good merit to run this story? or did she receive an email from ???????? or the Jewish Community to run this story to stir up shit.<br />I will tranfer this topic to my CONTROVERSY CORNER Forum for opinions. Should Jewish Bankers and Businesses be investigated around the world?<br />because I bet there is a lot of Hanky Panky going on that the general public don't know.<br />Phil