All for Peace

This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.All for Peace (Hebrew: רדיו כל השלום; Arabic: راديو صوت السلام) was a joint Israeli-Palestinian East Jerusalem based radio station that transmitted from Ramallah in the Palestinian territories.

[8] The station regarded broadcasting over the FM band as important because many potential listeners did not have Internet access.

[8] Although the station had been provided with rights to one of the Palestinian Authority's approved radio frequencies, bureaucratic difficulties at a time when there were poor relations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority and no peace negotiations delayed the transmitter's delivery to Ramallah for several months.

[4] The station says that it aims for "a wide audience that encompasses both peoples, and seeks to provide messages of peace, freedom, democracy, cooperation, mutual understanding, coexistence, and hope".

[11] The radio station has received sponsorship from the Anne Frank Fonds foundation, Belgium's Flemish Department of Foreign Affairs, the European Union, the German Federal Foreign Office, the Givat Haviva friends association in Switzerland, the German Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations, the Foundation for Middle East Peace, the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Israel, the Rich Foundation, the Sam Spiegel Foundation, Philipp Burckhardt Stiftung Zurich-Switzerland, USAID, the United States Institute of Peace,[12] and United Nations organisations.

[2][14] On 20 November 20, 2011, approximately 500 Israeli journalists attended an "emergency conference" in Tel Aviv to discuss what they regarded as "unprecedented and immediate threats to their free expression" and to protest the closure of All for Peace, the planned government closure of Channel 10 and government-supported libel legislation.

[1] Danny Danon, a member of the Knesset for Likud who had lodged a complaint about the station with the Attorney General two months previously, took credit for the shut down.

[2][16] Danon said he had lobbied the Ministry of Communications and described the police action as "carrying out justice" and that the station's broadcasts "were unacceptable".

"[15] A petition filed by the station in the High Court of Justice challenging the shut-down order was denied.