Jeremy Bowen is doing his bit for the war effort….we’re just not sure whose.
Here he is pushing the sentimental narrative on behalf of the Palestinians….
Jeremy Bowen ?@BowenBBC
Piece I wrote for the BBC website about the #Gaza ceasefire — and the girl with the wish list http://bbc.in/Y62IVi #Israel
Jeremy Bowen ?@BowenBBC
Wishes for the future handed to a #BBC colleague from a child whose family fled from #Israel shelling in #Gaza pic.twitter.com/qsFaHppZ
Aided by another BBCer: (Bowen’s producer)
Cara Swift ?@cswift2
PHOTO: A girl in #Gaza wrote down her wishes for the future a handed them to the #BBC #Gaza pic.twitter.com/DFOq1J8G (via @BowenBBC) #Israel
This is his write up on the web:
In the last hours before a ceasefire, in a United Nations school in Gaza City that was packed with families who had fled from Israeli shelling, a girl of about 13 pushed a piece of cardboard torn from a biscuit wrapper into the hand of one my colleagues.
It was a checklist for the future, with one spelling mistake:
I hope to stop a war
I hope to live in a happy life
I hope to be pace [at peace] for ever
Happy dream
Bowen rounds it off…..
But this is Gaza, a place where nightmares can come true.
And of course he does his bit for the Jewish children too…..
‘I know there are children on the other side of the border wire, in battered towns like Sderot, who have the same kinds of hopes as the Palestinian girl in the UN school.’
Having a look at that list, far too many discrepancies for my liking:
1) Do 13 year old foreign students really write so neatly in English?
2) You’d think the writer would write their ‘p’s in the same consistent manner. two different example of composing a ‘P’ as if somebody had to think about the first and then forget for others and wrote as normal. Have a look
3) The same with the ‘e’s and the ‘a’s (the first a is written totally different from the penultimate one)
4) the third hope shows somebody who is used to writing English, now here’s the crux, arabic is written from right to left. Anybody who is versed in that language would write their English letters |(at 13) from right to left. The letters have been written from left to right.
The person who wrote the above, has shown that actually he/she knows different ways in which to compose individual letters and has expressed a maturity which isn’t exemplified in people until they are much older.
Remember this person is supposed to be 13. I know of English 20 year olds who can’t write so neatly.
Oh bTW, my adopted mother insisted that I learnt to write correctly as a child, thus I have very neat handwriting and which explains why I collect pens . I bought a Lamy CP1 fountain pen last week, to go with the Lamy CP ball point, along with the numerous Cross pens, ohto ,Tombow pens I own along with the Italian leather pens cases I collect in which to hold them in.
But for my day to day writing, I have used a Lamy safari fountain pen since 1991.
‘I know of English 20 year olds who can’t write so neatly.’
Someone has to…
To be fair, in this day and age…
Actually, my penmanship was such that a teacher once suggested I seemed to be communicating via the literary equivalent of dance, and the jitterbug at that.
I look at what young midshipmen managed to produced in Nelson’s day, and am in awe.
Searching for an example, I found this…
http://www.amazon.com/Letters-Annapolis-Midshipmen-Write-1848-1969/dp/155750170X
Even those separated from us by a common language.
If this letter really was given to Bowen’s fellow hack by a local Palestinian girl, then I hope it puts him off launching rocket attacks on Israel from her school in future. He should use Bowen’s hotel instead, as the IDF reprisal would generate a lot of bad publicity for Netanyahu at Broadcasting House.
But this is Gaza, a place where nightmares can come true.
What the heck… Wonky Jezza’s Saccharine Factor?
Better I guess than getting BBC Gaphics to whip up a quick baby on a bayonet.
‘We are the narrative interpreters, and we are the dreamers of dreams’
Actually, as Jezza can only see one spelling mistake, I wondered what awor was then.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=AWOR
Maybe she’s seen the BBC Xmas schedule now all unique funding has been pissed away on payoffs, hush money and market rate golden handshakes and parachutes?
Happy dreams.
For some.
She’s a bit off message – the family can’t have a TV in the house or she’s not allowed to watch the children’s programmes which include sickening incitements to violence, in the name of religion, delivered by characters dressed as fluffy rabbits etc. Perhaps she’s just impervious to that kind of thing.
http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/2468.htm
http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/3645.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeii225G-HM
Our Beeboids in the Middle East make little or no effort to draw the attention of the British public to this disgusting material.
At least 1,400 rockets were launched from Gaza. Did Bowen, Donnison etc. report even one being fired?