[WikiEN-l] Arutz Sheva, OneVoice

[Nathan Russell]

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zero 0000 wrote:
| I can't find the message, but someone stated here that Arutz
| Sheva is not illegal any more.  This needs clarification.
|
| Arutz Sheva is not a legally registered radio station in Israel,
| but it is legal for it to broadcast from international waters
| into Israel.  That's the sense in which it is legal.  One of
| the things that 4 former managers were sentenced to jail terms
| for was for broadcasting from land then falsely testifying in court
| that they were broadcasting from off the coast.  Currently the
| prosecution is appealing the sentences (3-6 months) as too lenient,
| so you can see just how happy the authorities are about this bunch.
| See http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/392420.html .
|
| There is also a move afoot in the Knesset to make Arutz Sheva legal.
| A bill has been introduced to that effect.  I don't know what the
| chances of it passing are.
|
| OneVoice has a history of posting doubtful stories from Arutz Sheva.
| At [[Refusal to serve in the Israeli military]] he posted a claim that
| some general had said that refusal to serve had dropped by 80%.  What
| the general had really said was that *convictions* for refusing to
| serve had dropped by 80%.  I replaced the false claim by the correct
| story together with all the details (actual numbers of convictions
| from the general's testimony) and citation of my sources, but OneVoice
| just went into his usual obsessive reversion loop regardless.  I don't
| accept the good faith assumption, this has happened too many times.  He
| is here with a mission and that mission has nothing to do with writing
| a good encyclopedia.
|
| Zero.

If you want the article locked, now or later, message me by email or WP.

At this point I think that would be more than justified, and I'm willing
to take a bit of flack if I'm seen as less than neutral.

Nathan
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