Fascinating how the BBC reports the cold blooded murderous attacks on Jews in Israel by Palestinians….the Palestinians were of course provoked into such attacks.
When a police officer was attacked the BBC for some reason felt it necessary to point out that the police officer was wearing a stab vest and was unhurt…..whilst the Palestinian was dead…..those Israelis…how they over react to a bit of harmless attempted butchery!
The Israeli army for some reason let their guard down when a Palestinian in a hi-viz jacket with ‘Press’ written on the back approached and then stabbed one soldier…..Question….why would the IDF trust anyone in the Press?, after all, the BBC has been stabbing Israelis in the back for years…
Today on R4 we had an interesting news bulletin from the region (1 min 18 secs) with Kevin Connolly bringing us the usual BBC games with language intended to subtly insinuate that the Palestinians are victims of Israeli aggression.
Connolly tells us that ‘a 16 year old Palestinian was shot by Israeli border police after he attempted to stab an officer…..elsewhere an armed Israeli shot dead a young Palestinian after an attempted stabbing…there have been sporadic clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli security forces…’
Interesting how Connolly frames the attacks as almost harmless, carried out by youngsters…. Highlighting the youth of the attackers is an effort to garner some sympathy for them…and why say ‘an armed Israeli’? He was obviously armed as he shot the Palestinian who was trying to murder him….just another BBC attempt to indicate the ‘power’ of the Jews? And why not say they were trying to kill Israelis?….instead Connolly prefers the less dramatic, less truthful, claim that these were merely ‘attempts to stab’. What of those ‘protests’? ‘Protests’ or riots? What are they ‘protesting’, Israel defending itself? Shouldn’t be allowed!
Was that just how the report turned out or was it designed that way in order to downplay the Palestinians’ efforts to kill Israelis and to win some sympathy for them…poor Palestinians, oppressed by the blood-thirsty Israeli military machine, a Palestinian youth without hope or a future with only knives and brave heart for weapons.
Perhaps the BBC could do us all a favour and start telling the truth about who is responsible for the Palestinians’ plight…their fellow Muslims from the surrounding countries, and many a left winger over here, who wish to keep the Palestinians in poverty and misery as political weapon against the Israelis…and of course the Palestinian leadership itself which has absolutely no interest in peace with Israel, its only intent is to wipe out Israel and ethnically cleanse all Jews from the land.
‘the BBC for some reason felt it necessary to point out that the police officer was wearing a stab vest and was unhurt…..whilst the Palestinian was dead…..those Israelis…how they over react’
Mishal’s Rules of Engagement apply.
Apparently.
The stab vest is highly symbolic of what the BBC chooses not to report whenever we get one of their dubious, out of context body counts. Unlike Hamas, Israel protects it’s own citizens.
The BBC is like one of those worms that burrow into the brain of their victim till he goes mad. The BBC cannot be reformed. If we had a real conservative govt the BBC would be removed as a clear and present danger. Delenda est BBC.
Yes.
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“…and why say ‘an armed Israeli’? He was obviously armed as he shot the Palestinian who was trying to murder him….”
Incredible – as opposed to the Palestinian thug with the knife who was clearly….unarmed ?
And as for dismissing these events as “…attempts to stab….” What the hell do they think this is… a ‘pin the tail on the donkey’ game or something ?
Jeez – what is it going to take to get these biased morons at the BBC to stop distorting information in what is supposed to be our national news source ? Maybe an ‘unarmed’ Palestinian thug hunting them down for a little game with his knife ?
“Question….why would the IDF trust anyone in the Press?, after all, the BBC has been stabbing Israelis in the back for years…” So true and thanks for the chuckle.
Strangely enough, the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune and MSN have all presented similar, balanced reports on the latest wave of Palestinian terror, all naming AP as the source:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/10/14/world/middleeast/ap-ml-israel-palestinians.html?_r=0
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-israeli-palestinian-violence-20151014-story.html
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/israeli-military-begins-deploying-in-cities-to-stop-attacks/ar-AAfqBcZ
Even the New York Times, generally pickled in lefty political correctness and admiration for the Palestinians, presents Israel’s side at length:
Israel has adamantly denied the allegation [designs on the Al-Aksa mosque], saying the violence has been driven by what it calls rampant incitement against Jews on social media spread by Islamic groups and the Palestinian leadership.
In a briefing to foreign journalists Wednesday, Israeli Cabinet minister Yuval Steinitz showed Palestinian videos and animations that glorified the stabbings of Jews in the Old City of Jerusalem and the killing of a Jewish settler couple in the West Bank in front of their children.
He also quoted recent statements by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in which he blessed “every drop of blood spilled for Allah” and asserted that Jews desecrated a Jerusalem holy site with their “filthy feet.”
“This is not new. It is just a new wave of terrorism and violence and this time it’s totally clear that the main approach here is a religious approach,” Steinitz said. “It’s all about horrible, anti-Jewish, racist incitement.”
The BBC? Nothing but silence, of course.
But I’m encouraged by AP and the others. Could be that sections of the media have become so sickened by relentless Islamic terror that they are beginning to report fairly on the conflict between civilization and Islam.
Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu admonished BBC’s Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet who asked at a press conference on Thursday if he was ready to resume negotiations with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
“Are we living on the same planet?” Netanyahu sharply responded to Ms. Doucet “I’ve been calling day in, day out, in every forum… I’ve called on President Abbas to resume unconditional negotiations immediately.” Netanyahu urged Doucet to instead ask Abbas if he is willing to talk to the Israeli prime minister. “Right now, as we speak, we can meet,” he said. “I’m willing to meet him, he’s not willing to meet me.”
“And you ask me about the resumption of negotiations?” he continued. “Come on, get with the program. These people don’t want negotiations. They’re inciting for violence. Direct your questions to them.”
http://tinyurl.com/o5qu4fy
Really good news. If any BBC ‘journalist’ needs a powerful rebuke it’s Lyse Doucet and it made my day just listening now to Netanyahu giving it to her at your link, so thanks for that.
I wonder how such a line of questioning would pan out if conducted in the same manner over the border?
Maybe Evan and Eddie could be flown over for a rooftop interview by the heavy hitters?
Gentlemen, start your mopeds…
“Rooftop”… LOL
Great to see that bitch Doucet getting a good kicking. Did they broadcast it on the BBC ? I wish Bibi was UK PM.
BBC and biased propaganda is happened on all fronts.
For example, they are trying to get through to my children with subjective references to the holy war, asking questions like, is it a Just War, them subliminly producing a level of bias
Here’s an example based on my son’s homework this week.
The Beeb reference stated
‘actions like the Allied bombing of Dresden, a two-day raid by almost 2,400 bombers that destroyed the city and killed perhaps 135,000 civilians to virtually no military purpose, certainly broke the final condition’ of a Just War.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/rs/war/justwartheoryrev2.shtml
This is subjective, was it not in response to the Germans bombing our country. Ironic that because -and by an accidental mistake- a British bomber missed it’s target and hit a residential area in Germany in early WW2. Goering was so outraged that he stopped bombing our depleted airfields and instead bombed our cities, this mistake by Goering to all intents and purposes changed the course of the war and allowed us to replenish our airplane stocks and win the Battle of Britain.
They do the same to the Isrealis. This subjective misinformed mindbending of youngsters is completely wrong.
I am of the firm belief that the Beeb are as much an enemy to the Isrealis as they are to the indigenenous British. They hate any form of civilisation, they dislike a mature culture. It’s about time the people in this country began to realise this fact.
Our children are being indoctrinated to be anti British, anti western culture, anti Isreal.
Needless to say, I have written a letter of complaint to the school concerning their poor decision in using BBC ‘educational’ references.
“Ironic that because -and by an accidental mistake- a British bomber missed it’s target and hit a residential area in Germany in early WW2. Goering was so outraged that he stopped bombing our depleted airfields and instead bombed our cities”
Not quite. The Germans were under instruction from the very top not to bomb London. However, one crew accidentally did just that. The following night the RAF launched a small raid on Berlin, which Goering had promised would not happen and that if it did he could be called ‘Maier’. That enraged the Germans so much that it was then they switched tactics and launched the blitz on London etc. As you say this caused the Battle to finally go our way. Also there were some strategic reasons for bombing Dresden but modern teaching trying to make the nazis out as victims is worrying.
Thanks Demon, happy to be corrected.
No probs. As it is, the points you were making are still completely valid.
‘Actions like the Allied bombing of Dresden, a two-day raid by almost 2,400 bombers that destroyed the city and killed perhaps 135,000 civilians to virtually no military purpose, certainly broke the final condition’ of a Just War.
We should all complain on mass to the bBC simply as Stalin demanded we ease the pressure on the Eastern front by taking out Dresden and the most salient part the highest figure for the death toll as given by the Germans themselves is…..25,000.
It is also worth pointing out that Dresden only became an issue when Nazis Holocaust denier David Irving wrote a book on the Subject I quote:
“Some time after serving in 1959 as editor of the University of London Carnival Committee’s journal, Irving left for West Germany, where he worked as a steelworker in a Thyssen steel works in the Ruhr area and learned German. He then moved to Spain, where he worked as a clerk at an air base. During his time in Spain, Irving married his first wife, a Spanish woman with whom he had five children. In 1962, he wrote a series of 37 articles on the Allied bombing campaign, Wie Deutschlands Städte starben (How Germany’s Cities Died), for the German boulevard journal Neue Illustrierte. These were the basis for his first book, The Destruction of Dresden (1963), in which he examined the Allied bombing of Dresden in February 1945. By the 1960s, a debate about the morality of the carpet bombing of German cities and civilian population had already begun, especially in the United Kingdom. There was consequently considerable interest in Irving’s book, which was illustrated with graphic pictures, and it became an international best-seller. In the first edition, Irving’s estimates for deaths in Dresden were between 100,000 and 250,000 – notably higher than most previously published figures. These figures became authoritative and widely accepted in many standard reference works. In later editions of the book over the next three decades, he gradually adjusted the figure downwards to 50,000–100,000.According to the evidence introduced by Richard J. Evans at the libel trial of Deborah Lipstadt in 2000, Irving based his estimates of the dead of Dresden on the word of one individual who provided no supporting documentation, used forged documents, and described one witness who was a urologist as Dresden’s Deputy Chief Medical Officer. The doctor has since complained about being misidentified by Irving, and further, was only reporting rumours about the death toll. Today, casualties at Dresden are estimated as 22,700–25,000 dead.”
And:
“The Destruction of Dresden is a 1963 non-fiction book written by David Irving that describes the February 1945 Allied bombing of Dresden in World War II. The book became an international best-seller during the 1960s debate about the morality of the World War II area bombing of the Nazi Germany civilian population. The book is no longer considered to be an authoritative or reliable account of the Allied bombing and destruction of Dresden during February”
And:
“According to Richard J. Evans, an expert witness for the defence at the 2000 libel trial of Deborah Lipstadt, Irving based his estimates of the dead of Dresden on the word of one individual, Hans Voigt, who provided no supporting documentation,used forged documents, and described one witness Max Funfack as Dresden’s Deputy Chief Medical Officer. Funfack had made it clear by letter to Irving on 19 January 1965 that he had not been Chief, or the Deputy Chief, Medical Officer, he had no knowledge of any documentation on the numbers killed, and during the war he had only heard rumours, which varied greatly, over the number killed in the raids”
So I wonder why the bBC hasn’t got round to amending their hate fest against the British?
And we all knew in February 1945 that the war was going to end in May 1945.
The hindsight brigade beggar belief.
Grade is calling the BBC out. http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/10/17/former-chairman-criticises-bbcs-misleading-israel-coverage/
“Mohyeldin then backtracked, claiming: “Everything was moving fast… it was obviously difficult for us to concentrate on that particular moment.””
This seems to happen a lot, an oddly errs almost exclusively in one direction. Funny how the fog of war suddenly becomes less certain only when they are nailed and called out. His credibility should be over and he should no longer be in the job.
I recall something similar, I think during the Ferguson riots, when what the BBC bozo on the ground was describing something the anchor in the studio was contradicting.
Frankly these gone native activists in flak jackets are a propagating propaganda force that news media need to sort out pronto. Especially any funding them uniquely by force.
Meanwhile, deep in the bowels of W1A, plans are afoot to create Frankie Howerd 2 to cope with demand for space to discuss editorial integrity, priorities and stuff…
Not sure if it’s been commented upon but BBC consistently reports Israeli’s as “killed” as opposed to “murdered”… I feel a complaint on BIAS coming on…
Just a thought or two to add to my comment at 7:03 am yesterday:
When it comes to Israel, the Main Stream Media has a peculiar difficulty with the simple concept of indirect speech. Here’s the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune:
The violence erupted a month ago over the Jewish New Year, fueled by rumors that Israel was plotting to take over Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site, a hilltop compound revered by Jews as the Temple Mount and home to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam’s third-holiest shrine and a key national symbol for the Palestinians.
Israel has adamantly denied the allegation, saying the violence has been driven by what it calls rampant incitement against Jews on social media spread by Islamic groups and the Palestinian leadership.
I suppose one could call this a double distancing from Israel, a country the MSM is apparently terrified of being identified with in any way, shape or form.
It becomes even more ridiculous in the version from MSN:
Israel says the violence has been fueled by what it says is rampant incitement
But I should point out that this double distancing from Israel is peculiar in these articles which are sourced from AP and are basically fair and balanced and certainly don’t shrink from giving the Israeli viewpoint:
In a briefing to foreign journalists Wednesday, Israeli Cabinet minister Yuval Steinitz said it had less to do with political differences and more with anti-Semitic incitement to create a religious war.
He showed Palestinian videos and animations that glorified the stabbings of Jews in the Old City of Jerusalem and the killing of a Jewish settler couple in the West Bank in front of their children.
He also quoted Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ recent statement where he blessed “every drop of blood spilled for Allah” and that Jews desecrated a Jerusalem holy site with their “filthy feet.”
“This is not new. It is just a new wave of terrorism and violence and this time it’s totally clear that the main approach here is a religious approach,” Steinitz said. “It’s all about horrible, anti-Jewish, racist incitement.”
It’s also interesting to note that there is no shrinking from the foul quote by Abbas.
BBC ‘reporters’ would not quote such evil Palestinian incitement in their wildest nightmares.