. I see that the BBC are reporting on the latest instance of Palestinian savagery – this time a Palestinian has driven a bulldozer into a bus and several cars in Jerusalem, killing four people before being shot dead, Israeli police say. Dozens of people were hurt, at least seven critically, in the incident on Jaffa Road, in the city centre. The BBC leaves it to the Jerusalem police to describe this as – and I quote- “a terrorist incident.” Naturally Al Been cannot bring itself to utter such a judgemental term when referring to the actions of a member of the world’s most oppressed people. The BBC also is quick to report that Hamas was not to blame. Indeed the BBC helpfully adds that “Attacks by Palestinian militants in Jerusalem have been a rare occurrence, with none of their trademark suicide bombings since September 2004. “ Mmm – militants, interesting choice of word for scum who strap on an explosives pack and enter a wedding feast or a disco or a pizzeria. I guess this must have been the act of just one poor Palestinian, deranged by Israeli brutality perhaps, eh? I express my sympathies to those people murdered by this evil Palestinian and my contempt for the BBC for failing to use the t is for terrorist word once again.
BULLDOZING REALITY
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To the BBC, the rape and attempted murder of a Jewish woman is simply a “failed love affair.”
But the closure of a checkpoint to keep out suicide bombers is a “crime against humanity.”
Apparently anything on the Israeli victims was not graphic enough to appear on the BBC.
Complaint
We received complaints from viewers who felt that the footage shown in the News at Ten of a Palestinian man being shot dead after a bulldozer attack in Jerusalem was too graphic.
The BBC’s response
It’s not normally the BBC’s policy to show the moment of death on screen. These are always extremely difficult decisions to make. However, on reflection, we felt that the pictures featured on Wednesday’s News at Ten did not strike the right editorial balance between the demands of accuracy and the potential impact on the programme’s audience.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3564231,00.html
However in a blog post titled ‘Grim Decisions,’ News at Ten editor Craig Oliver defended the contested choice.
“This was not an easy decision,” writes Oliver, “we never want to shock for the sake of it, or to sensationalize the news.
“However, equally we don’t want to sanitize the news for what is a mature and thoughtful audience… The scene was disturbing, and it was a fine call, but I believe it is important and illuminating very occasionally
to see the reality of violence.”
Oliver, who also edits the News at Six journal, also raised the question of whether the attack would been so extensively covered if it had not been caught on camera
“The answer is probably not – but we should not necessarily ignore the opportunity to show people what goes on when we are provided with it. We should however remind people that this is not the only violence, and set it in the context of other deaths – both Palestinian and Israeli – which we did last night.“
Hey, the BBC had a scoop.
That doesn’t happen often. 😉
Here’s Paul Reynolds seriously shilling for Iran. Total identification with the proclamations of innocence of the Islamic Republic: ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7486971.stm )
“However, Iran is not making highly enriched uranium suitable for a weapon, only low-enriched uranium useable as nuclear power fuel. (Update 4 July: the evidence for this comes from the 26 May 2008 report from the IAEA, released on 5 June. This states that “the results of the environmental samples… indicate that the [enrichment] plants have been operated as declared. The samples show low-enriched uranium… particles.”)
The International Atomic Energy Agency would probably spot any move to change this. So exactly how and when this “red line” might be reached is unclear.
As for the S-300, it was only in December that Iran indicated that it would buy this very advanced anti-aircraft system. It has only recently taken possession of the Tor-MI and it could be many months before the S-300 is delivered.
Iran says that it has no intention of developing nuclear weapons and a US National Intelligence Estimate has concluded that it probably gave up a nuclear weapons programme in 2003.”