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Porn upsets Palestinians
31Mar02
PORN movies and programs in Hebrew are being broadcast by Israeli troops who
have taken over three Palestinian television stations of Ramallah, irate residents of
the besieged West Bank town have told AFP.
The offices of three local television and radio stations were occupied by soldiers
yesterday morning, a few hours after tanks and hundreds of troops stormed the town
in Israel's biggest offensive against the Palestinian Authority and its leader Yasser
Arafat.
The soldiers started broadcasting the porn clips -- considered extremely offensive by
most Muslims -- intermittently this afternoon from the Al- Watan, Ammwaj, and Al-
Sharaq channels, the residents said.
"The pornographic movies started on Al-Watan television at around 3:30 pm," one
34-year-old Palestinian mother named Reema told AFP.
"I have six children at home, they have nowhere to go with what is going on here and
can't even watch TV," she said angrily.
"It's not healthy really. I think the Israelis want to mess with our young men's
heads,"
she said.
Anita, a 52-year-old mother of three children, complained about "the deliberate
psychological damage caused by these broadcasts".
"I am furious, these are the people who are shooting at us that also play this
disgusting trick on us," she said.
"We are desperate for news and constantly flipping channels and get these terrible
pictures instead," adding that videos of the intifada were also shown backwards with
"ideal terrorism" written in red across the screen.
"Luckily, there is no electricity in half of Ramallah," she said from her house in east
Jerusalem where the channels are also available.
A fourth local station, whose premises were not seized by the army, ran a written
message across its screen letting people know it was the Israelis who were behind
the graphic scenes.
"Anything currently shown on Al-Watan and other local TV channels has nothing to
do with Palestinian programs but is being broadcast by the Israeli occupation forces,
we urge parents to take precautions," the message said.
The Israeli military denied that it had anything to do with the pornographic
programming and instead blamed the Palestinian leaders.
"The Israeli security forces have no interest in putting pornographic and racist movies
on Palestinian television," an army spokesman told AFP.
"The only reason we are in these buildings and in this city is to fight against
terrorists
and their infrastructure after giving the Palestinians various chances to it
themselves," he said.
Palestinian leader Yasser "Arafat is willing to go low in order to make himself look
better in this uncomfortable situation", he said.
Israeli foreign ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nachshon said any such broadcasting
was "shameful", but said he was not aware of the Israeli army's involvement.
"I cannot believe that Israeli soldiers would engage in such despicable behaviour," he
said.
This report appears on news.com.au.
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