Al Manar TV and Nilesat

Written by Nasser Kandil,

It is not valuable what might be said about contracts’ reasons to stop the broadcasting of Al Manar TV which is the spokesman of the resistance and its prominent party on Nilesat, and what might be said about the accompaniment of the decision with a kind of warning messages to the Lebanese channels which are friend of the resistance and its party at different levels about the possibility of exposing to discontinuance for reasons that are related to paying fees and others. The matter has a history and a present and it will have a future. The past is related with what the Americans have already decided to classify Al Manar TV as a terrorist organization within a campaign the targets Hezbollah at the media and financial levels, This campaign has been agreed by the US President Barack Obama and the head of the Occupation government Benjamin Netanyahu within a plan of the current phase as a proactive compensation of the losses which the settlements and the involvement in them will produce, and which Saudi Arabia has given it an additional importance from the gates of the Arab League, and through describing Hezbollah of terrorism and from the gate of Arabsat and the blocking of  Al Manar. The present is through the employment of the Saudi money in the ownership of the Nilesat and the occasion of the visit of the Saudi King to Egypt for the blocking’s issue and accompanying it with warning messages to friendly channels. While its future will be through turning the warning messages to implicit book of terms that at least affect blocking the direct broadcasting of the speech f he Secretary- General of Hezbollah Al Sayyed Hassan Nasrollah in order to avoid the penalty which is represented by the blocking.

It is an alternative war that started and will not stop, it is one of the secure methods for the American Saudi involvement in the stage of the settlements, so it will end neither with the approaching of the wars in Syria, Yemen, and Iraq their ends, nor with a settlement that the Saudis may reach with Iran because this war allows for the Saudis and the Israelis supported by the Americans to play a psychological war where Hezbollah will be deprived from being an added value in the wining of the allies and from emerging as a winner while it is scuffing the disappointment of blocking its satellite channel, but this is its state and its loud voice, the strength of its resistance in the media arena, and the platform of its leader whom his opponents fear that he raises the victory sign after all these wars saying as I promised you always of victory, I promise you once again.

It is not possible to confront this war as its previous episodes have been confronted through the conferences of denounce and the statements of condemnation, it was a duty from the day on which other satellites have been blocked because of their position with the resistance to take the initiative of the preventive proactive withdrawal from the two satellites Arabsat and Nilesat, and to move to the Russian satellite waiting for easier and  more accessible satellites in transponder, in addition to reserve a package that includes all the channels which want the freedom of expression, commits to the resistance choice, and fears the exposure of blocking, restriction, and dedicated terms. Therefore the audience will have the choice between dishes and low noise block downconverter (LNB) that provide it with broadcasting channels on Nilesat and Arabsat as Al Jazeera Al Arabiya and others or provide it with broadcasting channels on the Russian satellite such as Al Manar, Syrian satellite, Al Mayadeen TV, and al-Alam TV and dozens of the Iraqi, Yemeni, and Bahraini channels or the audience will choose both of them.

The decision it is not too late for the future, this means currently reserving a place for the package that is run by Al Manar and the Syrian Satellite, that are broadcasted on friendly channels with financial and technical facilities with an understanding with the operated company of the Russian satellite, this means in a few months the Russian satellite will have followers who represent half of the Arab speaking audience, and will mean fortifying the channels which broadcast on Nilesat and the Russian satellite together, thus they will not be vulnerable to blackmail but they will have what can protect their freedom and their ability when they are exposed to the pressure of the threat of blocking as an alternative that allows them to refuse a compliance without feeling of loss.

It is a war that you wanted till the end, so let it be.

Translated by Lina Shehadeh,