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Israel’s Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman suggested on Friday that international media coverage of recent violence on the Gaza border was dictated by advertising revenue from Muslim countries.

“You must understand — there is only one Jewish state in the world,” he told his interviewers on Israeli television. “There are 57 Muslim states, which have much larger budgets. At the end of the day, whoever pays dictates the music.”

“When you go through all the international channels, from CNN to France24 to the BBC, 90 percent of the advertisements come from the Arab world,” insisted Liberman, also the leader of the nationalist Yisrael Beitenu party.

“We are speaking about a festival of hypocrisy,” he added in the interview on Israel’s Hadashot news channel.

Israeli officials routinely accuse international news organizations of portraying Israel negatively. Last year Israel’s communications minister said he would attempt to close down Qatar-owned broadcaster Al Jazeera’s operations in Israel, although the threatened action never came to pass.

Israel forces killed some 63 Palestinians during clashes and protests on the Israel-Gaza border on Monday, the culmination of weeks-long protests calling for the return of Palestinians to their ancestral homelands in Israel.

Following an international outcry at the high death toll, the United Nations Human Rights Council voted on Friday to dispatch a team of war crimes investigators to the region to probe the violence.

The United States and Israel blasted the decision and said the council ignored the role of Gaza’s rulers, Hamas, in the violence. Both countries hold Hamas responsible for the deaths.

In Friday’s interview, Liberman accused the UN rights body of ignoring the four Israelis — two deceased soldiers and a pair of mentally ill civilians — held captive by Hamas in Gaza.

“The Human Rights Council to this day has not demanded Hamas to allow Red Cross personnel to check on the welfare of the prisoners–but in this case [Gaza] they jump [onto it] straight away.”

The defense chief described the roughly two million residents of Gaza as all being Hamas’ captives and said that Israel is taking steps to alleviate the dire humanitarian situation in the impoverished enclave.

Israel and Egypt maintain tight restrictions on the movement of goods and people to and from the Strip in an attempt to starve Hamas, a militant group, of funds and support.

By I-24 News

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