A Biased BBC reader saw this and then posted me this…
“How benevolent of you to manage to draw Israel into the migrant crisis in Europe in your report. It appears that at every opportunity you have available you like to get the message across to viewers, listeners and readers that somewhere along the line the Jews have a responsibility. You could have gone to any of the other cities and towns to file your report but somehow following your instincts the Yarmouk “refugee” camp exactly suited you anti-Israel agenda and bias.
It is clear that to the average viewer/reader your filed report is accurate and to be relied upon but in essence it was distorted and far from honest. As BBC Mid East Editor since the Balen Report of 2004 your focus on Israel is beyond the realms of good honest journalism.
It is time you acknowledged you have a bias against Jews and Israel and desisted from taking every opportunity to bash us.”
Hear Hear….
It’s Jeremy Bowen reporting – what else would anyone expect but massive blinkered bias towards his beloved Islam and Arab countries. I’m aghast at every MSM report I read, getting close to banning myself from news out of respect for my blood pressure!
He once said is a biography programme, about his career, that he would ‘never forgive’ Israel, for the death of his Lebanese ‘fixer’, on the day the Golan Heights were handed back to Lebanon.
His fixer was driving his car wildly around the hilltops waving a Lebanese flag out of the window and an Israeli tank blew it up. To be honest, it looked like completely necessary violence on the part of the withdrawing Israeli forces – a ‘parting shot’, if you will.
That being said, it does make him completely unsuited to work as their Middle Eastern correspondent.
Not sure Bowen has it so wrong here. Descendants of Arabs who left the former British Mandate for Palestine in 1948 and arrived in Syria are a disproportionate percentage of current victims of the Syrian Civil War.
There is an irony here. The fake Palestinian refugees are now real refugees, although what percentage of those reaching Europe is uncertain. Mostly they reach Jordan were they are kept isolated from the rest of the country. After a while Jordan began denying entry to and deporting Palestinian refugees fleeing war in Syria.
Rather than absorb them into their country of refuge the Syrians kept them as refugees, for the past 67 years, and largely restricted them to camps which ultimately became effectively suburbs of larger cities. There were financial as well as national and ideological reasons for this. UNRWA aid is distributed through camps making the Palestinians a source of foreign cash. The Palestinians were mainly Sunni and the Syrian leaders particularly those coming from the nominally Shiite Alawite minority didn’t want to upset the balance by introducing more Sunni citizens. Finally the Arab League and the Rejectionist part of it lead by Syria wanted to keep the Palestinians separate as a PR tool. They were kept disarmed.
When the civil war broke out the Palestinians were trusted by neither side in the conflict even though the PFLP-GC supported by Syrian Army government forces. and the camps became battlegrounds, captured and recaptured.
In a sense the West is partly to blame for playing along with the Syrians and not pushing for Palestinian absorption. What would happen if they had been citizens is hard to speculate.
Why is it the West’s fault the Syrians did not give the Palestinians a fair break ?
Why is everything the West’s fault ?
How about – the Syrians behaved like shits ?
Palestinian refugees changed the demographic balance of Lebanon, and thus reduced this once civilised nation to a normal Muslim hell-hole.