Nice to see the BBC portraying IRA godfather Gerry Adams as a man of peace as he visits Hamas and claims these genocidal anti-Semites want a peace agreement. The BBC item is just one more instance in which the appeasement of IRA terrorism and the betrayal of common decency here in Northern Ireland is retailed as a template by the UK Government for “conflict resolution” around the world. I wonder how the thousands of victims of IRA barbarity feel about the BBC’s sanitisation of Adams past? Note how Adams equates the actions of Hamas and Israel, in line with BBC required moral relativism.
WHEN TERRORISTS MEET.
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Come now, DV, Gerry Adams is now a man of peace. Or, at least, he became one once he had killed enough people to get himself into government. Because Adams did his killing in a certain direction, the BBC accepts that he can be – and has been – rehabilitated.
Now the BBC keeps bringing him up as a model. We noticed this Narrative starting up at least a year ago, didn’t we? When the BBC was trying this angle with Afghanistan, we said there would be “mission creep”.
What’s always left unsaid in this puppet show is that Northern Ireland isn’t a two-state solution. It’s one state, with two parties sharing power – for the moment. The Israel/Palestine issue isn’t the same deal at all. One basic difference is that Jews will not be allowed to live in the Arab area(s), yet Catholics and Protestants are allowed to live side by side throughout NI.
But the BBC wants you all to think of the Jews as Loyalists, who really never should have been there in the first place, and exist only at the expense of the native Irish…er…Palestinians. It’s not their ancestral home, but they’ve been entrenched there long enough and they have to have some part in this. For now.
Adams wooed the media so successfully that one BBC journalist I knew in the 80s was overcome when told he would be interviewing him. It was as if he was about to talk to a rock star. When I pointed out Adam’s record the journalist told me “I knew Gerry in the old days” and he was a “really good guy”. I do not think the journalist had any Irish Republican leanings even though he worked in Northern Ireland in the 70s (and can still be heard on the BBC). But it seems (as with the great God Obama) style trumps substance – even when the substance includes murder.
John Bosworth,
The smell of cordite excites them, like rats to cheese.
The BBC have a child like love of ‘freedom fighters’ a romantic vision of a che look alike bravely battling the evil capitalists, a kind of David & Goliath type struggle meets Robin Hood with the freedom fighters helping the poor oppressed peasants while the cruel capitalists torture them and grind them down.
If the BBC hears the words, ‘peoples popular revolutionary struggle’ in a groups name they go weak at the knees, never mind that most socialist freedom fighters have been cruel murdering psychopaths only too willing to torture and kill anyone who crosses them, never mind that most of these ‘popular peoples struggles’ have left nothing but unmarked graves, despair and deprivation in their wake, never mind all that eh?
The BBCs childish romantic view of terrorists influences their childish reporting to this day, will they ever grow out of it? What is it with these socialist dreamers that they can excuse murder and torture as acceptable as long as the ends are met?
Cassandra, you’re probably right in the end, but it’s still fun to try and figure out the BBC’s rationalization for using Adams as their poster boy for peace.
One point of view would be that the BBC is using Adams as an example of a leader of a murdering gang who was willing to put down his own weapon once offered a share of power with the people he was trying to kill. So in that sense, Adams is the NI equivalent of Haniya. This makes sense, because the BBC sure seems to portray Netanyahu as a Paisley analogue.
I bet the BBC wouldn’t ever say that, though. I bet they’re also confused about why Israeli officials wouldn’t meet with him.
John Bosworth
Your inputs on this thread and others regarding your own direct experiences at the BBC are very useful and illuminating – thanks.
I commented about this a short time back here
Why wasn’t the BBC interested in Tony Blair’s alleged connection with Adam’s visit? If true, what did Tony Blair expect to come out of Adam’s visit?
Someone told me that the Republicans identify with the PLO and the Unionists with Israel. Confirmation? If true, is Adam’s visit a deliberate attempt to distance himself from Fatah? Abu Mazen could not have been too happy about this visit, either.
I am sure those readers in Northern Ireland had a better view of the peace process and how it was implemented than I did in England. It looked to me like it was more a surrender of England to the IRA and the selling out of the Unionist side than a process towards peace.
I think this is why a similar approach will not work in the middle east. There is no way this side of the second coming (Obama excluded) that the Israelis will surrender to Hamas like Blair did with the IRA. So a Northern Ireland style “peace process” will never work. Why then does the BBC and MSM keep talking up such an approach?
They should remember UK politicians have no bollocks, but from what I have seen a good number of Israeli politicians have bollocks to spare.
Deegee
Not exactly directly related but this is telling…
It was well-known for a while that Celtic fans fly PLO flags whilst Rangers fans fly Israeli flags to hack them off.
The Celtic ‘fenian’-minded support(not all admittedly) sympathise with the Palestinians whereas the similar minded ‘Unionist’ element of Rangers fans sympathise with Israelis(though having old boys such as Avi Cohen and Bonni Ginzburg probably help).
One thing that did strike me seeing Gerry get his keffiyeh and ornaments from Haniyeh was how alike it was to what Alan Johnston received on his ‘liberation’…
Surely just a coincidence…
Let’s all work towards peace; even the terrorists!!