Bardugo Storm: The IDF waves today (Sunday) responded to the petition of a new Tikva party led by an MK Gideon Saar To the Central Election Commission against the station broadcaster, the commentator Jacob Bardugo. The commander of the military station, Mr. Shimon Alkabetz, asked not to hear the petition, claiming that in the two days until election day, special broadcasts will be held with the Knesset channel, in which Bardugo will only serve as a commentator, and in any case, he says, the Knesset channel is responsible for editing the broadcast.
In a new hope, we will not be left in debt: “The attempt by IDF wave commander Mr. Shimon Alkabetz to prevent the Central Election Commission from hearing the petition against Mr. Bardugo indicates that Mr. Alkabetz is well aware that the station under his command has become Netanyahu’s political propaganda tool. “We are using the most blatant political propaganda tool that has ever existed in the State of Israel. We demand that Bardugo’s propaganda performances be stopped completely at least until after the polls close. Mr. Alkabetz’s claim that he will have a ‘refinement conversation’ with Mr. Bardugo today is an embarrassing joke.”
Shimon Alkabetz (Photo: Flash 90)As you may recall, the New Hope Party last week appealed to Alkabetz to stop broadcasting Bardugo. The party claimed that its broadcasts constituted election propaganda and that “Bardugo turned the right he was given to broadcast at the station into a clear means of propaganda.” Attached to the letter is a file containing a large number of statements by the broadcaster, which, according to Tikva Hadash, show a “continuous sequence of statements of double concern: active and clear assistance to Likud and Benjamin Netanyahu propaganda, including repeating messages accompanying the campaign in a manner consistent with the date of their publication.” “New and especially against its leaders, Chairman Gideon Saar and number 2 in the party, MK Yifat Shasha Bitton.”
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Some of the quotes sent to Alkabetz contained statements such as: “A party of confused defectors, a party of studios. Assault dissipates and panics. If they pass the blocking percentage these refugees will try to enter the Likud, Gideon has finished his job. “He will take care of these connections. He says to Saar and his supporters, friends, do not worry, the prime minister’s dream is not dead, it is in my hands and I can make an unusual connection.”