The BBC does not bother its audience with the complexities and horrors of the conflict between Palestinians and Israel but instead offers a vision not unlike Warsi’s and Clegg’s where Hamas are the heroes and Israel the villain.
Sayeeda Warsi and Nick Clegg are both eager to disarm the Israeli Defence Forces.
They don’t like the Israeli approach to self-defence as illustrated here…far too much disproportionate force….an unarmed little man being herded like an animal by a Jew at the point of a bayonet:
But they do seem entirely unconcerned about the all too likely outcome of their disarmament policy…strip the Israelis of their right to defend themselves and they swap a proud uniform for concentration camp pyjamas…the pogroms have already begun in Europe thanks to the willfully misleading reporting from the likes of the BBC:
Moshe Dayan, then chief of the general staff, put it succinctly in 1956, in a eulogy at the graveside of a kibbutznik murdered by Arab infiltrators: “For eight years, they have sat in the refugee camps of Gaza, and have watched how we have turned their lands and villages, where they and their forefathers previously dwelled, into our home… Beyond the furrow of the border surges a sea of hatred and revenge… Let us not fear to look squarely at the hatred that consumes and fills the lives of hundreds [of thousands] of Arabs who live around us… This is our choice – to be ready and armed, tough and harsh – or else the sword shall fall from our hands and our lives will be cut short.”
[What does Hamas want?]
Like Isis in Iraq and Syria, like al Qaeda, the Shabab in Somalia and Boko Haram in Nigeria, it seeks to destroy Western neighbours.
The Nick Cleggs of this world, who call on Britain to suspend arms sales to Israel, are their accomplices. It’s as if they really don’t understand the world they live in, like those liberals in Britain and France who called for disarmament and pro-German treaty revision in the Thirties. But the message is clear. The barbarians truly are at the gates.
Today, standing in solidarity with the Warsis and Cleggs of this world, the BBC proudly publishes photographs it has taken from Jon Donnison’s Twitter feed….you might think that there must be something wrong with the BBC’s guidelines if it allows its journalists to use Twitter to promote a terrorist organisation…seems not though.
In pictures: Faces from Gaza
Images taken by the BBC’s Jon Donnison in Gaza reveal the experiences of ordinary people amid the Israeli military operation to destroy tunnels and rockets used by militants. To see more of Jon’s pictures, follow him on Twitter @jondonnison.
No context at all from the BBC….just the usual stream of photographs of injured and despairing people, children mainly, designed not to bring you the facts to allow you to analyse the situation but intended to impact you purely on an emotional level and turn you against Israel.
Perhaps BBC reporters should have their own award, one that marks them out as those whose contribution to the breakdown of civilisation and the rising tide of anti-Semitism has been duly recognised…….something that reflects their integrity, professionalism and balanced, impartial reporting……
Here, from that previous Telegraph article, Benny Morris asks where is all that missing context in the Media?:
Israelis might argue that the (relatively) lightly armed Hamasniks in Gaza want to drive the Jews into the sea; that the struggle isn’t really between Israel and the Palestinians but between little Israel and the vast Arab and Muslim worlds, which long for Israel’s demise ; even that Israel isn’t the issue, that Islamists seek the demise of the West itself, and that Israel is merely an outpost of the far larger civilisation that they find abhorrent and seek to topple.
But television doesn’t show this bigger picture; images can’t elucidate ideas. It shows mighty Israel crushing bedraggled Gaza. Western TV screens never show Hamas – not a gunman, or a rocket launched at Tel Aviv, not a fighter shelling a nearby kibbutz. In these past few weeks, it has seemed as if Israel’s F-16s and Merkava tanks and 155mm artillery have been fighting only wailing mothers, mangled children, run-down concrete slums. Not Hamasniks. Not the 3,000 rockets reaching out for Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Beersheba. Not mortar bombs crashing into kibbutz dining halls. Not rockets fired at Israel from Gaza hospitals and schools, designed to provoke Israeli counterfire that could then be screened as an atrocity.
A vivid description from Benny Morris which perfectly outlines the likes of the BBC’s coverage which is shallow and unsophisticated, meant purely to persuade rather than to inform.
What the BBC deliberately avoids is the likely outcome should Hamas and its fellow travellers prevail and succeed in overrunning Israel.
What would Donnison’s Twitter feed look like then?
Here’s a bit of minority reporting from the future that attempts to predict that future…….a ‘future’ just as plausible as the BBC’s ‘present’ as depicted by its coverage of events in Gaza……
You may think that is a scenario that is way over the top, and hopefully you’d be right. Islamist Hamas would never go that far…would they?
Then again….look at Syria and Iraq…….500 people being buried alive, Christians forced to convert or die, thousands executed in cold blood, severed heads held aloft by 7 year olds, whole peoples threatened with extinction and genocide.
Look at the Fogels, look at the 3 teenagers abducted and murdered on the orders of Hamas….look at the planned invasion of Israeli villages through the tunnels in September with the probable intent to kill as many Israelis, military or civilian, as possible.
They are capable of it.
The BBC’s journalists seem to be working, by design or stupidity, towards giving them the chance.
Tony Hall must be immensely proud of his swarm of highly trained journos bringing the complexities of the world to us in such simple but lucid and intense reports of the fighting between Hamas fighters and the IDF, the rigorous investigations of casualty figures, the many photographs of Hamas fighters firing from the vicinity of schools, hospitals and mosques, the accurate analysis of who fired what when, the revelations about the massive transportation of goods into Gaza even as a war rages….the BBC isn’t just some cheap propaganda unit churning out Hamas friendly material…it brings you the truth.
Doesn’t it?
Good summing up of the British state broadcaster’s incompetence.
Mirrors that of Cameron’s clique.
Jews are only acceptable as victims. Not any longer and the Western liberal had better understand this.
Those cunning too clever by half Jews actually daring to defend themselves, their families and their country.
Not the sort of thing we expect from those people at all.
There is no difference between Hamas, al Qaeda, ISIS or the myriad of Islam’s Razia army ( aka known as terrorists).
I really hope that is not true.
ISIS beheading, crucifying and slitting throats of Christian women and children
http://www.catholic.org/news/international/middle…
Be aware. This is very gruesome.
i suppose in a way, israel is like a country on the top of a mountain looking down and surrounded at the bottem by bloodthirsty hamas and nazi genocidal isis types who would be only 2 willing to carry out another holocaust against there population,looking over the border what is happening to the christians in iraq israel and the idf will on no terms let there population sufffer the same fate as them poor christians in iraq who face certian genocide if the isis cousins of hamas get hold of there men,women and children.israel has no choice but to take the fight to the terrorists and show them no mercy.
Excellent summary and helps explain why the Public remains silent on the killing fields of Iraq,Syria,Pakistan,Somalia,Yemen etc, ,but become incandescent with rage with how Israel is battling Islamic terrorists whose only goal is the destruction of the Jew.
Which brings me to a consequence of all this pro Islamic terrorist propaganda. when Saddam attacked the Kurds,Marsh Arabs, the British,French and Americans could move fast enough to protect Muslims.
Yet Gaddiffi did likewise,the same.
But when it comes to Islamic terrorists who are not only ethnically cleansing the ME, but who would have no problem returning to the Uk in which to murder,death, kill if we started defending those Non-Muslims victims of ISIS and you can can see why the British Government is terrified of Islam.
Yes folks, we have come to a place where we have become dhimis of the Muslim, think I’m kidding:
Try debating Islam in the UK, Media,Schools or Public and faster than you can say Allah Ackba, you’re an Islamophobe
Try opposing the building of a mosque
Try opposing the sale of Halal Meat
Try opposing Female oppression (According to the left, its their human right)
Try openly supporting the enemies of Islam: Israel,America, the UK (read British Empire)
In the Uk, we have been turned into the Slave of the Muslim and we have allowed the left to do so.
And so it continues:
School heads warn of Trojan Horse overreaction
The bBC, the propaganda arm of radical Islam in the UK
I have never been able to understand how the leftist femi-nazis manage to hate Western men for their “oppression”of women (you know, holding doors open for them, giving up your seat on the bus, that sort of thing) and yet support, andh at the same time support barbaric medieval cultures that refuse to allow the education of women (should that be ‘wimmin’?). They apply one set of principles to the west, and another completely reversed) set of principles to those opposed to the west.
It just confirms my view that a good definition of a leftist liberal is “the ability to hold two mutually opposing views at the same time without noticing the hypocrisy…”.
No….they are just morons, expat john….morons.
Watch some Leeds Utd supporters give the pally march some real stick as it passed their pub whilst down for the Millwall match on Breibart. It’s pure heaven Pounce.
I can only repeat a quote from the feedback on a newspaper article about the Israel/Palestine conflict:
‘If Hamas stopped firing rockets it would be the end of the war: If Israel stopped firing back it would be the end of Israel’
So terribly, undeniably true – why can’t these lefties see it? I’m beginning to despair!
You might like this one: Palestinian sympathies:
Of course I cannot name any or know the background or context, it was on a Guido thread in a comment.
Please tell me how to insert an image and I’ll show you the direct context.
Anat, below the preview of your comment you should see a line saying “You can add images to your comment by clicking here.” and then copy the image URL into the box that comes up (make sure to copy the image link first as it doesn’t let you leave the page until you have or cancel adding the image). That will add the needed html code to link the image.
Hope that helps.
Anat T Try using this page for your future posts on here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBCode it has a complete listing for all BB Codes (This forum allows BB Code to be used) I hope that helps…
Anat T Try using this page for your future posts on here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBCode it has a complete listing for all BB Codes (This forum allows BB Code to be used) I hope that helps… and also here`s a simplified listing … http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/misc.php?do=bbcode
Also use imageshack for your pictures … That way you don`t allow anonymous web users into your private images on (photobucket)
http://postimage.org/ no registration free image hosting…
To add to what Corran Horn has written the image needs to be uploaded to a site where you can get direct link to it (i.e. you can’t just upload an image straight from “My Docs”.
I use Photobucket but these days there are many.
Most of the German citizens of (British Mandate of Palestine were deported by the British at the start of World War II and others in 1941. As far as I know none received compensation or any right of return. The BBC today would call this ethnic cleansing and call them refugees.
I’m not sure what Span Ows is trying to show. The flag holders were Palestinians in the same sense the Jews were Palestinians. They were not Arabs.
Hi degree, I don’t think they’re Germans; I thought it an interesting juxtaposition as per Alan’s article (and also Thoughtful’s comment about the Mufti and Nazi sympathisers etc. although he posted just after)
I made it clear that I do not know the people or background or context: they may well be Nazi sympathisers fighting the British. They may be a group with captured flags; they may even…something else. I would be interesting to know. AnaT hasn’t seemed to be able to post what he/she wanted to.
With respect the summary is exaggerated. The chance of Hamas overthrowing Israel with or without IS or Hezbullah/Iran is negligible.
However, the chance of a Mumbai size terrorist attack is 100%. It was only by luck that Israel stumbled (a major intelligence failure BTW) on the plan to conduct such an attack in September and delayed it by several years by destroying most and hopefully all of the tunnels.
What the BBC apparently wants is an Israel where the citizens are constantly running for bomb shelters; where terrorist attacks that the IRA could only dream of are a daily event and where 20% of the population are in a violent insurrection and where kidnapping is a daily problem. It is not destruction that Israel fears but that.
Iran is another matter. The end, if it comes, will be instant and not drawn out. Personally, I think, although the Iranians don’t seem rational, that is unlikely. What is likely is constant threat and intimidation from that quarter; financing of the previous threats and this where the BBC should be worried the use of the nuclear threat (it is not necessary to actually drop a bomb) to manipulate the European Union into doing whatever Iran wants.
Think of an Iran in effective control of much of the world’s oil and factor that into the BBC’s global warming fantasies.
It is the lack of information that the BBC is ignoring that annoys.
Why is it not saying that Hamas don’t let them film in a hospital? Why don’t they talk about the Israeli efforts to find peace? Where is the reference to Egypt being fed up with Hamas as well?
As this website says, it is bias. When a news organisation is openly biased it is no longer presenting the news but a specific opinion. That opinion is inaccurate and that strays into setting an agenda. This is not impartiality, it is not ‘supporting the udnerdog’, it is simply political posturing.
Orla Guerin, approx 11.20 French time, c. 10.20 BST, interviews an articulate young lady visiting Gaza. The captions stae that the young lady is from the “International Solidarity Movement”. No qualifications whatsoever as to the provenance of this organisation. 10 seconds on Google reveals that the aforementioned groupis a pro-Pali organisation, but that is not reported bythe BBC. Gurin relates the story of a young man shot, apparently three times, and I quote: “apparently by an Isrzeli sniper.”. No supporting evidence is given. Guerin then states that the Israelis have said that Hamas are using civilians as human shields, and then adds the comment “but so far tbere is absolutely no evidence of that.”.
A little more research and we learn that Guerin is a former Irish Labour Party candidate for the EU, who was hand picked by the then ILP leader.
So, a southern Irish leftist (no axe to grind their, guys) supports leftist anti-semites by misrepresentation. No surprise there. After all, there were plenty of Irish Republican socialists who revered Hitler.
Orla Guerin’s hatred of Israel goes a long way back. Her hatred of Israel more then a decade ago, was so vitriolic that it seemed to me, that the venom was beginning to show in her face.
She was transferred out of the area some ten years back, but the BBC has sent her back to what she likes doing best – screeds of hatred of Israel.
“BRITAIN’S HARD-LEFT ‘STOP THE WAR’ GROUP BEMOANS ANTI-HAMAS GUARDIAN ADVERT”
By Raheem Kassam.
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/08/11/Stop-The-War-Campaign-Rails-Against-Anti-Hamas-Advert
Political Correctness is the curse.
It grows and thrives within the BBC. Nothing can be criticised unless approved.
Non-conforming leads to a loss of career and employment.
Until the curse of Political Correctness is purged, we will plunge deeper into the abyss.
For INBBC:-
“ISIS: UK Christians to pray and protest at Downing Street in solidarity with Iraqi Christians.”
http://www.christiantoday.com/article/isis.uk.christians.to.pray.and.protest.at.downing.street.in.solidarity.with.iraqi.christians/39566.htm?
And precisely how much airtime do you think this will receive from Auntie?
Presumably there praying hasn’t worked too well so far.
You missed the ‘i’ off the end of your name.
Scumbag.
That is a disgusting and snide comment, considering the way the now-negligible minority of Iraqi Christians had been dealt with by the ISIS band of butchers.