Sunday, May 13, 2007
Al-Arabiya TV slipped. A few days ago, I watched a documentary on Al-Arabiya TV which was followed by a discussion hosted by Maysun `Azzam. I was quite surprised. IT was not something that you expect from Al-Arabiya: several Jordanian experts appeared and documented the extent to which Jordanian government signed off Jordanian water rights (to Israel) when they signed the peace treaty. Jordanian expert, Sufyan Tall was the star of the program: he gave in numbers the extent to which Jordanian government gave an advantage to Israeli government. Here, there is a report that Jordan is now pissed at Al-Arabiya TV. In typical act of courage--that you expect from Sauid media, Al-Arabiya TV nixed the program altogether.