Egyptian newspapers admitted this week-end that the government radio is jamming Arabic broadcasts from Israel. Declaring that “Egypt has finally succeeded in making listening to the Israeli radio impossible,” the Cairo newspaper El Akhbar called on other Arab governments to take similar jamming measures.
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