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INTRODUCTION Al-Manar is a Lebanese TV station, it beamed its first terrestrialsignal in the 1991 and it began broadcasting via satellite in the year 2000. The Channelapproaches Arabs and Muslims all over the world with an open unifying speech. In 2004,the station was estimated to be viewed by 10-15 million people daily worldwide

Objectives It assumes objective policy motivated by the ambitions of participation inbuilding better future for the Arab and Muslim generations by focusing on the tolerantvalues of Islam and promoting the culture of dialogue and cooperation among thefollowers of the Heavenly religions and human civilizations. It focuses on highlightingthe value of the human being as the center of the Godly messages which endeavor to savehis dignity and freedom and develop the spiritual and moral dimensions of his personalityAl-Manar avoids cheap incitement in dealing with developments and activities, and itstresses objectively on the adoption of the fair and just causes of the whole nation.leading post among the other Al-Manar was able in a very short period to occupy a Araband to draw a large number of Arab viewers inside the Arab satellite stations became thetrue reflection of what world and in the countries of immigration, and it Muslim and Arab

thinks and believes in Every each and

Al-Manar is an active member of the Arab states broadcasting union, part of the ArabLeague. According to Al Manar's news director, Hassan Fadlallah, Al Manar does notaim to be neutral in its broadcasting, "Neutrality like that of Al Jazeera is out of thequestion for us," Fadlallah said. "We cover only the victim, not the aggressor. CNN is theZionist news network, Al Jazeera is neutral, and Al Manar takes the side of thePalestinians He said Al Manar's opposition to neutrality means that, unlike Al Jazeera, hisstation would never feature interviews or comments by Israeli of finials. "We're notlooking to interview Sharon," Fadlallah said. "We want to get close to him in order to killhim.

Conclusion; Arabic for The Beacon) is a satellite and terrestrial television )( -Manar (station based in Beirut, Lebanon. Al-Manar calls itself the "station of resistance" (qanatal-muqawama), and is instrumental in what Hezbollah calls its "psychological warfareagainst the Zionist enemy in," and an integral part of Hezbollah's plan to spread itsmessage to the entire Arab and Muslim world. Its programming is geared to keep theArab world focused on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and since the U.S. invasion ofIraq, the US Occupation of that country