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Whereas al-Aqsa TV has used popular cartoon figures to in-
doctrinate children and incite them toward hatred and vi-
olence, in one instance depicting a Bugs Bunny-like char-
acter declaring that he ‘‘will finish off the Jews and eat 
them’’; 
Whereas al-Aqsa TV is currently being transmitted by sat-
ellites owned by the France-based, privately owned 
Eutelsat and by the Saudi Arabia-based, Arab League- 
owned Arabsat; 
Whereas Hamas’ al-Aqsa TV follows the model of Lebanese 
Hezbollah’s al-Manar TV, which also promotes terrorism 
and incitement to violence against the United States and 
its citizens and is widely telecast throughout the Arab 
world via Arabsat and the Egypt-based, state-owned 
Nilesat; 
Whereas Hezbollah launched the television station al-Manar 
in 1991 and has since funded and operated it as a ‘‘sta-
tion of resistance’’, intending to use it as a weapon to 
further its goals of promoting violence against the United 
States and Israel; 
Whereas in 2000, al-Manar launched a satellite television 
channel that now has an estimated daily viewership of 
10,000,000 people worldwide; 
Whereas al-Manar regularly broadcasts video clips that glo-
rify insurgent attacks against American and Coalition 
forces in Iraq; 
Whereas the United States designated al-Manar TV a Spe-
cially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) entity in 
2006; 
Whereas Press TV, Iran’s English-language satellite tele-
vision network, is transmitted via the satellite providers
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ArabSat, NileSat, AsiaSat, HotBird, HispaSat, IntelSat, 
and Galaxy, and is viewable in North America, South 
America, the Middle East, Europe, Asia, and Africa; 
Whereas al-Alam TV, Iran’s Arabic-language satellite tele-
vision network, is transmitted via the satellite providers 
ArabSat, NileSat, AsiaSat, HotBird, TelStar, and Gal-
axy, and is viewable in North America, the Middle East, 
Europe, Asia, and Africa; 
Whereas many Iranian state-controlled television channels 
have broadcast incitement to violence against United 
States citizens, including coverage of rallies and speeches 
at which Iranian leaders, clerics, children, and mass audi-
ences have declared ‘‘Death to America!’’; 
Whereas on March 6, 2008, al-Alam broadcasted a warning 
from an Iraqi insurgent that if the USS Cole was not 
withdrawn from off the coast of Lebanon, his group 
would be ‘‘targeting all the United States interests, espe-
cially the warships [docked] in Umm Qasr beaches in 
southern Iraq’’; 
Whereas al-Zawra is presently a nonoperational Iraqi satellite 
television channel that broadcasted during 2006 and 
2007; 
Whereas the Government of Iraq banned al-Zawra in Novem-
ber of 2006 for inciting ‘‘violence and murder’’; 
Whereas multiple reports indicate that after being banned in 
Iraq, al-Zawra broadcast via a satellite uplink based in 
Syria until transmissions apparently ceased in July 2007; 
Whereas al-Zawra broadcasted videos of violent attacks 
against American forces in Iraq depicting the destruction 
of humvees and armored vehicles, recruitment videos for 
the Abu Bakr al-Sadiq al-Salafi Battalion of al-Qaeda in
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Iraq, and videos that feature prominently ‘‘Juba’’, a snip-
er that allegedly targeted Coalition forces and called for 
viewers to engage in violence against Coalition forces in 
Iraq; 
Whereas in 2007, al-Zawra aired a program widely known as 
‘‘Hidden Camera Jihad’’, a compilation of attacks filmed 
and executed by insurgents against Coalition forces in 
Iraq and accompanied by sound effects, scornful English 
language captions, and a ‘‘laugh track’’; 
Whereas al-Rafidayn, an Arabic-language satellite television 
channel based in Egypt with a focus on Iraq, is broadcast 
via NileSat to the Middle East and North Africa, and is 
affiliated with the Association of Muslim Scholars, an 
anti-American Islamist group based in Iraq; 
Whereas al-Rafidayn has repeatedly broadcast video clips pro-
duced by Sunni insurgent and terrorist groups in Iraq, 
and the channel’s news broadcasts have frequently broad-
casted videos, poems, and songs that praise those groups 
and their attacks on American forces in Iraq; 
Whereas television channels that broadcast incitement to vio-
lence against United States citizens and others have dem-
onstrated the ability to shift their operations to different 
countries and their transmissions to different satellite 
providers in order to continue broadcasting and to evade 
accountability; 
Whereas television channels such as al-Aqsa, al-Manar, and 
al-Zawra broadcast incitement to violence against Ameri-
cans and Israelis, purvey hatred against the West, and 
aid Foreign Terrorist Organizations in recruitment, fund-
raising, and propaganda;
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Whereas the use of media outlets by advocates of violence 
against Americans poses a clear and present danger to 
the security of United States service members and Amer-
ican civilians serving throughout the Middle East; and 
Whereas it is imperative for the United States to use all pos-
sible legal and diplomatic tools to counter the threats to 
American service and civilian personnel that result from 
the control or use of media outlets by SDGTs and other 
entities that intend to inflict violence on Americans: Now, 
therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) condemns the broadcast of incitement to vio-
lence and hatred against Americans, Israelis, and the 
West by media based in the Middle East; 
(2) urges governments throughout the Middle East, 
American allies, and other responsible Nations to offi-
cially and publicly repudiate purveyors of hatred and in-
citement to violence against Americans, Israelis, and 
others; 
(3) calls on the President to designate al-Aqsa TV 
a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) entity; 
(4) condemns Hamas for using children’s television 
programming to incite hatred, violence, and anti-Semi-
tism; 
(5) demands Hamas recognize the State of Israel’s 
right to exist, renounce the use of violence and terrorism
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as political goals, and accept all past peace agreements 
with the State of Israel; 
(6) calls on Saudi Arabia, the primary shareholder 
in Arabsat, and on all other Arab States that own shares 
in Arabsat, to cease immediately the transmission of 
telecasts by al-Aqsa TV and al-Manar TV; 
(7) calls on Egypt, which owns Nilesat, to cease im-
mediately the transmission of telecasts by al-Rafidayn 
TV and al-Manar TV; 
(8) calls on the owners of Eutelsat and the Govern-
ment of France, which legislates what may be broadcast 
on satellites based in France, to cease immediately the 
transmission of telecasts by al-Aqsa TV; 
(9) urges the President to consider designating as 
SDGTs satellite providers that knowingly and willingly 
contract with entities designated as SDGTs to broadcast 
their channels, or to consider implementing other puni-
tive measures against satellite providers that transmit 
al-Aqsa TV, al-Manar TV, al-Rafidayn TV, or any other 
terrorist-owned and operated station; 
(10) calls on the President to take into consider-
ation state sponsorship of anti-American incitement to 
violence when determining the level of assistance to, and 
frequency and nature of relations with, regional States; 
and
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(11) urges all governments and private investors 
who own shares in satellite companies or otherwise influ-
ence decisions about satellite transmissions to oppose 
transmissions of telecasts by al-Aqsa TV, al-Manar TV, 
al-Rafidayn TV, or any other terrorist-owned and -oper-
ated stations that similarly purvey insidiously anti-Amer-
ican, anti-Western, anti-Israeli, and anti-Semitic mes-
sages and openly incite their audiences to commit acts 
of terrorism. 
Attest: 
Clerk.