As an American I utilize Al Jazeera for US news as well as news about the Middle East and the global south and beyond. I have relied primarily on Al Jazeera since January 2011. I was in Cairo when the students took Tahrir Square during the Arab Spring and told my husband and others in the US to watch Al Jazeera for accurate and timely reporting. In all the years that I’ve watched Al Jazeera, its news and commentary, political talk shows and interviews, as well as documentaries, I’ve never known them to be prejudiced for or against any state, non state actor, or individual. The reporting is representative of the highest journalistic standards. At this time in the US our own “news” has become even less reliable, media often failing to challenge the government’s narrative. US media has always shown tremendous prejudice in reporting on the Middle East both by commission (producing propaganda and abjectly false information) and by omission (not reporting on relevant events that contradict the government’s narrative, leaving out relevant information that puts an event in context, prohibiting their journalists from using certain words and phrases even when accurate and necessary, having “pundits” with known bias as experts while ignoring other voices directly involved, and using language and phrasing that obfuscates the truth).

As Al Jazeera is owned by the nation of Qatar, and as all nations use all their assets to their greatest advantage, no one should be unaware that Al Jazeera has a pro Qatari bias. That said, they also have a very strong “truth bias“. Al Jazeera is run by serious professional journalists, courageous ones at that. One need only take note that the Israeli government has banned Al Jazeera from reporting inside Israel to know that they must be doing something right. The last thing the government of Israel wants coming out right now is the truth. No embellishment is necessary to show people the horror of what Israel is doing in Gaza and the West Bank. as an American, I am ashamed that my own country’s news media, Save for a few shining examples like Democracy Now! and the intercept, are turning a blind eye to the truth, across the corporate owned political spectrum. I have found Al Jazeera to be a far superior replacement for CNN, who am I used to go to for all my news, before it became obvious that they were degrading as a reliable source for accurate information. in addition to its frequent updated top stories, Al Jazeera also has excellent feature segments and I am particularly fond of what they are doing in studio B.

Keep the good work, watching your broadcasts is in lightning and educational. Just watching the great people of Gaza, exposed us to the fact that we were in deep sleep and ignorant towards our own cause and towards our existence in this life. l am saying that as a Palestinian. Who knows his cause very well. And never new how to put it into practice, and how things can be possible like we read it in the serah of the prophet. Now Gaza taught us that and that can happen. All they needed is courage with being patient little by little and using what ever means their hands can grasp on. But they knew that the power of Iman and the good intentions of relying on Allah will defeat the most powerful mighty on this earth as long as God and the richness in your side nothing can stand in your way. Gaza showed us and walked us up, and showed us how things can be really possible like in the times of the first generation. Thank to all of the people who made aljazera possible and work in it and special thanks to the Qatar's people and their leaders. I salute the Journalists who put their lives in danger like the resilient master Wale Al-Dahdoh.