Letter to The Washington Post

Dear Editor,

David Ignatius says he is a "proponent” of terrorist TV (aka Al Jazeera), despite “its tendency to spin coverage.” [Al-Jazeera’s Tricky Balancing Act, Aug. 23, 2006]. “Tendency"? It’s more like their mission. Much of Al Jazeera's coverage revolves around blaming the US and Israel for all the ills of the Arab world. Any problem in the Arab world can find it’s origin in Israel or the United States on the fiction of Al Jazeera TV. What Ignatius doesn’t seem to get is that it is this coverage that contributes to the incitement of the Arab world against the West – the same incitement that caused the Sept 11 attack.