Publishers Harper Collins apparently wiped Israel off the map in atlases for sale in the Middle East, can’t upset those tolerant Muslims. Apparently Jordan is now Palestine according to the map……but we knew that anyway….funny no one objects to Muslim Jordan being created out of a large chunk of Palestine by the British. Harper Collins claims it was a printing error. Of course it was.
The BBC itself created a programme that prominently and pointedly displayed a map of ‘Palestine’ sans Israel…..the whole programme, The Honourable Woman, being a pro-Palestinian piece of propaganda that suggested it would be best for all if Israel didn’t exist……
BBC News is nowadays more a work of dramatic fiction and emotive angst than straight reporting making dramatic programmes like ‘The Honourable Woman’ almost redundant.
The Honourable Woman though has its place in the BBC battle order…..it is a ‘weapon’ of war as much as any gun or bomb…it is a ‘smart bomb’ delivered into thousands, if not millions, of homes around the world bearing not high explosives but a poisonous message….a message delivered by the BBC on behalf of Hamas, Fatah and all those who wish to ‘wipe Israel off the map’.
That explosive message is that Israel, the ‘Jewish state’, should be dismantled and the Palestinians allowed to take the land of Israel….needless to say the BBC glosses over what would happen to the Jews, merely implying that all would be peace and harmony as the love and understanding flowed between the two peoples.
The BBC continues this theme, pretending Israel doesn’t really have a right to exist in this subtle piece of de-legitimisation:
The Jews of Arabia
Interesting first paragraph:
The Jews may have originated in the Middle East but they were long ago scattered far and wide – to the Gulf, among other places. Few now remain, except in Iran.
So the Jews were cast out of the Middle East, the BBC means ‘Palestine’, long ago….a subtle allusion suggesting they therefore have no claim on a land called ‘Israel’?…….So we are told few remain in the Gulf States and few, if any, now remain in the Middle East as they were ‘long ago scattered far and wide’ from there (which presumably doesn’t include the Gulf States in the BBC’s mind as the BBC has for some reason limited its exploration of the existence of Jewish communities to those Gulf States) …..except in a place called Israel where there are several million, unmentioned, Jews.
The BBC lists places where Jewish communties existed but misses out any historic connection and community in ‘Palestine’ itself merely mentioning obliquely that ‘ the State of Israel was declared in 1948 ‘ as if the Jews moved in their without any link to the region at all.
Curious the BBC misses out the Jewish population of over 400,000 in ‘Palestine’ as noted in 1938 with only about double the number of Muslims then there….
Whether by design or a casual approach to the relevant facts the BBC has managed to produce another article that subtly undermines Israel using an argument long used by ‘Palestinians’.
If there was no Jewish link to the region could they claim a right to live there?
Here is that argument set out in a piece by a Jewish writer as he puts his counter argument to it:
According to this view, Jews had been absent from the land of Israel for too long to claim their right to return. In their absence, another group of people had come to occupy the land, and thus the Zionist movement could succeed only at this people’s expense. The West, embarrassed by the horrors of the Holocaust, had founded the State of Israel to clear its conscience, and the Arab residents of Palestine were forced to pay the price. The creation of the Jewish State was thus an outrage, so the argument goes, because the very settlement of the land by Jews was illegitimate.
Unbelievable and yet the Left and Merkel still bury their heads in the sand and refuse to listen….
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/chancellor-angela-merkel-delivers-stinging-attack-on-germanys-growing-antiislamic-protest-movement-9952274.html?cmpid=facebook-post%3Fcmpid%3Dfacebook-post
The rise in anti-Semitism seems to be in ratio to increasing Islamic fundamentalism and extremism. I think we all know whose side the Left is on.
Latest news from the HarperCollins UK Facebook page: HarperCollins regrets the omission of the name Israel from their Collins Middle East Atlas. This product has now been removed from sale in all territories and all remaining stock will be pulped. HarperCollins sincerely apologises for this omission and for any offence caused.
The BBC is also quite capable of wiping Israel off the map but unlikely to apologise.
I don’t suppose the BBC will ever get around to discussing the mass immigration of those Arabs, now labelled Palestinians, into the area of Israel in the last decades of Ottoman rule and the period of the British Mandate. They came from much of the Middle East and North Africa in response to improved economic conditions.
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/tcga/tcgapdf/Nebel-HG-00-IPArabs.pdf
According to historical records part, or perhaps the majority,
of the Moslem Arabs in this country descended
from local inhabitants, mainly Christians and Jews, who
had converted after the Islamic conquest in the seventh
century AD (Shaban 1971; Mc Graw Donner 1981).
These local inhabitants, in turn, were descendants of the
core population that had lived in the area for several centuries,
some even since prehistorical times (Gil 1992).
There are many who would dispute that, including considerable numbers of Palestinians. (Listen about 1:40 into the video.
The late Ami Isseroff claimed that the Palestinians consisted of three major groups and were quite aware of their actual origins. Some were as barney rubble writes mainly Christians and Jews, who had converted after the Islamic conquest in the seventh
century AD. The leaders were almost exclusively descendants of the Arab invaders and very proud of that connection. However the bulk were comparatively recent immigrants who arrived in the late Ottoman and British Mandate times.
Isseroff said that due to very unreliable record keeping it was difficult to find any universally agreed figures for each group and it was possible that some of the more recent immigrants may well have originated in the region and returned when better economic conditions made it attractive.
The present Palestinians have sound political reasons to deny their relatively recent arrival but their claims are contradictory. At various times I have seen claims to be descendants of the Philistines, Canaanites (often specifically Jebusite) and even prehistoric (Neanderthal?). Surprisingly I don’t recall a single Muslim Palestinian claiming Jewish origins (the Christians were to a large part Jewish converts and their descendants) as you suggest. Perhaps it is the shame that would be produced if they admitted that. By contrast almost all the Christians seem to want to claim 1st century origins.
The Palestinian case for ancient origin is not helped by leaders such as Said Erekat “My family was in Palestine for 9000 years”. “5,500 years before Joshua Bin-Nun came and burned my hometown Jericho.” The evidence, including that from other members of the same clan, is that his family actually comes from the Huwaitat region of the northwestern Arabian Peninsula.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/standwithus/20-most-memorable-moments-from-israel-in-2014-idym.
Dedicated to Eyal, to Giliad,to naphtali who were butchered by Hamas in the summer of 2014…yet the BBC don`t seem to have bothered with such anecdotal trivia.
Dedicated too-to the memory of Joan Rivers, a good Friend of Israel who we lost earlier in the year.
And to Ariel Sharon, a Lion of Judah despite his cracked vessel nature( 2 Tim 2.20-21).
With new found regard to Alicia Keyes and Lady Gaga…, now all we need is a Bruno Mars or a Prince to match the courage of these young women.
God Bless Israel-may Shaitan shaft the BBC still more in 2015, if it doesn`t get its head out of the Empty Quarters sand dunes-and pronto.
Final thanks to Lord MacAlpine and to Mrs Thatcher from all the Sons of Enoch!
Just read about Keys’ visit to Israel, the nazi-left are metaphorically foaming at the mouth and spitting blood against her using all the lies that they’ve been fed about Israel. Well done her.
Typical Tories blamed the Jews for everything, Marx was Jew, the Frankfurt School was full of Jews.
Do you all wear tin foil hats?
You do know Marx’s views about Jews dont you? Despite Jewish ancestry he hated them with a vengeance like all you lefties.
Supplementary.
“HarperCollins says sorry for leaving Israel off map”
http://www.thejc.com/news/world-news/127600/harpercollins-says-sorry-leaving-israel-map?
I remember a story about a UK firm selling blow-up globes to Egypt. (This was in the 70s or so).
When the schools tried to blow them up nothing happened – the air just came out of the cut-out part where Israel should have been. It had been censored.