“More than any other network's, then, Al Jazeera's image resides in the eyes of its beholder, its logo, a calligraphy flame, making the perfect Rorschach. To Western governments after September 11, the network was a mouthpiece for Al Qaeda, while for Al Qaeda the network wasn't mouthpiece enough. For conservative Arabs today—including many of the repressive regimes in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, and Bahrain—it's shockingly progressive, and therefore subversive; for progressives, it allows conservative voices, and therefore sounds repressive. For Israelis, the knee-jerk reaction is that the network exercises a constant anti-Jewish bias; for disgruntled Arabs, the network provides a legitimizing platform for the Israeli point of view.” - × × ×