Which senior BBC journalist said this?:
‘We cannot get across the view that Palestinians are a displaced people who are fighting to overthrow, as they see it, a brutal military rule.’
Who are ‘the many’ senior BBC journalists who say that ‘They simply cannot get the Palestinian viewpoint acoss, the perspective they cannot say is that Israel is a brutal apartheid state.’
They cannot say that..because it isn’t true…however interesting to know that they want to say that….even more interesting to know which BBC journalists said such things…not hard to guess though. Wonder what the Balen Report says. Cannot be good can it? BBC News Kills Jews?
There have been protests about BBC coverage being pro-Israeli...the BBC news did not report those protests…however the Today programme, in the shape of Mishal Husain, did. (0839)
Who do they invite in to discuss this? An ardently pro-Palestinian Greg Philo and the fence sitting Jonathan Freedland who we are told works for the Guardian and the Jewish Chronicle. We weren’t told he also works for the BBC on a regular basis…which might have coloured and informed your view of his comments as he defends the BBC telling us their coverage is quite fair….which we know to be quite untrue….he is also someone quite critical of Israel’s stance against Hamas….Hardly the ideal balance to the fanatical Philo…but perfect for the BBC.
This was a perfect storm for the BBC…..not only can they have some rabidly anti-Israeli comments aired and allegations of pro-Palestinian bias countered, but also have someone defend the BBC telling us how good its coverage is. Win win for the BBC.
Earlier in the programme (07:39) we had Justin Webb ‘advising’ the Israelis that killing and mutilating little children was a pointless exercise and that hadn’t they better talk to Hamas?
Lyse Doucet then came on and blamed Israel for the failure of the ceasefire telling us that of course Hamas won’t stop rocketing Israel until Israel deals with Gaza’s economic and social conditions.
Any coincidence that the new BBC drama, The Honourable Woman, is based upon precisely that premise…that the Israelis should be knocking down their ‘walls’, stopping their violence and instead work hand in hand with Palestinians to develop their economy?
That kind of ignores the root of the problem and flips the blame from Hamas to Israel…but Israel is defending itself against rockets and attacks from Hamas and imposed the closure of its borders because of those attacks…therefore the cause of any economic and social problems in Gaza can be traced directly to Hamas and the Palestinian’s 65 year history of terrorism against Israel and not Israel’s sanctions on Gaza.
Curious how Israeli violence in self-defence is futile and brutal whilst Palestinian terrorism is the result of Israeli aggression, a brutal occupation and a vicious apartheid state.
Doucet has turned history on its head in an attempt to support Hamas, a terrorist organisation.
Stop the terrorism, recognise Israel’s right to exist and tear up the charter that demands the destruction of Israel and death to the Jews and the Palestinians might then see a change in their circumstances.
Perhaps the Palestinians should heed their guru, Muhammed, who said that nothing will change for Muslims unless they change what is within themselves first.
Is this the same Lyse Doucet who spent the first three days of the 2003 Iraq war in an empty tent city in Jordan, waiting for Iraqi refugees that never came, and missing completely the real events?
The BBC would not allow reality to intervene with its imaginary narratives. Was it ever a news organization?
That woman is so pro-Muslim that she’s lost all sense of impartiality. She can only see events through her skewed prism of Left-wing reality. Every time I see or hear her, I turn over.
It is impossible for Israel to get a fair hearing. That we must accept.
So full of self righteous loathing for Israel is the liberal opposition in the West, let alone the ME opposition, that any attempt by ,say the BBC, to put any case at all for Israel is met by howls of execration and accusations of pro Israel bias. The cause is all and my God how the academic and liberal intelligentsia loath Israel. it is beyond reason and quite terrifying to hear.
We need to call it by it’s real name and counter it . It leads to the vilfying of a people and to their doom. All that stands between this is the courage of the Jewish nation and the still many in the West who will not listen to the rabid Jew haters of our so called intelligentsia.
Once again I quote Solhhenitsyn
“Let the lie come into the world . Let it even triumph. but not through me. “
Agree with you Dave S. Take a look at the liberals in the US and Paris. These are the people represented by the BBC.
http://janmorganmedia.com/2014/07/american-muslims-chant-jews-back-ovens-nuke-israel/#gEYqw4G0mibIu1Y6.01
I’m surprised how little attention is devoted to Razia Iqbal’s biased coverage. You don’t even need to listen to her words: just in the last week, the kittenish, flirtatious, baby voice she has used to talk to Hamas representatives versus the righteously indignant tone she takes with any Israeli, dripping with sarcasm, is all you really need to hear. I can’t understand how the BBC allows this obvious bias to permeate its reporting. Even when Israel accepted a ceasefire and Hamas refused, her angle was that this was all just a conspiracy between Israel and Egypt and poor little Hamas was left out of the discussions, even while all of her reporters on the ground made clear that Hamas knew full well that there was a proposal and that it had rejected it. Israel is targeting terrorists and civilian casualties are accidents that are occurring because Hamas deliberately places its weapons in civilian homes. In that sense, the great bulk of the population of Gaza has little to fear from Israel. In contrast, Hamas is setting out to deliberately target and terrorize the entire Israeli civilian population. While the moral distinction here clearly favors the Israelis, to Iqbal the Israelis are always in the wrong.