Please put the pressing issue of UK politics to one side for a moment to read the latest post on Robin Shepherd’s blog. It’s aimed at the BBC because of something they’re currently ignoring.
Robin says he has reason to believe that BBC editors sometimes read his blog, and I sincerely hope they do. Whether they still read this one I know not. In case they do, I’ll reiterate here that Robin poses a challenge to the BBC. It’s a pigs will fly sort of a challenge, but never mind.
The story involves rape, a television series, Palestinian prisoners, and the IDF.
All subjects that would normally be of great interest to the BBC. So why isn’t this one? Read on….
That story obviously doesn’t entertain so the BBC probably didn’t cover it because their duty to inform was overidden in this case by the need to educate us in the correct opinions to hold about Israel and the Palestine question.
The BBC was uninterested in reporting on a recent Palestinian protest against honor killings. If it’s not part of the “Israel is the problem” narrative, or doesn’t show Palestinians in a courageous or heroic light, the Beeboids won’t think it’s worth their time. Human rights are worthy to the BBC only if they’re part of a hot-button topic.
A significant number of Palestinian women and girls in Israeli prisons do minor ‘terrorist’ acts such as threatening a soldier with a knife to get arrested and escape their families.
BBC: -supporting Erdogan’s Islamic, and Islamising Turkey:
-opposing Israel.
On the BBC’s ‘Europe’ page, because for the BBC, Turkey is already part of the E.U. we are given a whole page of the BBC’s pro-Islamic Turkey criticism of Israel. This is the BBC’s pro-Islam, anti-Israel ‘impartial’ message. The BBC is solidifying the Hamas-Turkey-Iran pollitical alliance.
The BBC feels at home politically there, and inflicts its pro-Islamic ideology on we Licencepayers
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8607795.stm
A counter view on Turkey, by a UKIP candidate, Paul Weston,not put by BBC:
http://paulweston101.blogspot.com/2009/07/review-of-bridge-too-far-by-philip.html
Danny Ayalon’s ‘rudeness’ to the Turkish ambassador is prominently displayed. It may have been a tactical error or possibly the Israeli deputy minister is much more familiar than than the BBC with the conventions of the area.
Compare this with the ‘rudeness’ and deliberate breach of protocol by Obama to Netanyahu that is essentially condoned by the BBC.
Netanyahu holds talks with Obama amid settlement row