Propaganda is everything to Israel, so when its own army radio is now too openly questioning orders, it has to go! Right, so Israel is closing its own army radio because it wasn’t obedient enough. That’s the line. Defence Minister Israel Katz says Galei Tzahal, the IDF’s station, has “harmed morale” and “dragged the army into politics.” The rough translation of that basically meaning: it stopped sounding like propaganda and we can’t have that. Broadcasts end 1 March 2026 if he gets his way. But this same week, the Knesset moved to make the so-called Al Jazeera Law permanent — the one that lets the government shut any foreign outlet without a court order. Both moves wrapped in the same excuse: national security, morale, unity. Two fronts of the same information war — one silencing the soldiers, the other gagging the press. Israel calls this protec ...