The thing about Jeremy Bowen is his dogged determination to ensure that the Jews are always to blame for the Palestinians killing them. Here Jeremy asks the loaded question
He could, of course, ask the better question “Did Arafat’s survival kill the best chance of peace” but then again that might be a tad risky to the BBC narrative which, is redux form, is always the same -“Blame the Jews”
Did the Arab nations’ refusal of a two-state solution in 1948 kill the best ever chance for peace?
Did the Arab nations’ all-out war against Israel in 1948 kill the best chance of avoiding a Palestinian refugee crisis?
Did Arafat’s refusal of a two-state solution at Camp David in 2001 piss off even Bill Clinton?
These and many more questions never asked by the BBC. Crucial historical events forever consigned to their Memory Hole.
Filthy, stinking, evil bias.
My understanding is that Rabin signed the Oslo agreement in good faith, gave Gaza to the Palestinians and let the PLO run much of the eastern territory – but Arafat responded by presiding over many years of intifada violence, Before the assassination Rabin came to bitterly regret the Oslo agreement.
But Bowen won’t tell the audience that, of course.
When Israel took control from Jordan of the walled Old City of Jerusalem they magnanimously left the Temple Mount under the control of a Jordanian Muslim organisation – and restricted Jews’ access to the area. As a matter of good faith Israel has abided by this admirable decision for almost 50 years.
Whereas the perfidious Palestinians have been trying to make out that Israel wants to re-take the Mount, and this is then exaggerated to include fears of destruction of the mosques and the building of a third Temple. Utterly absurd, of course – but much Palestinian (and Arab) thinking is utterly absurd. So yet again the Israelis are blamed for the current violence – or at least in the BBC’s eyes are held partly to blame.
Last night on the World Service there was a long Hardtalk interview by Stephen Sackur with the Deputy Leader of the PLA. The man was in one long noisy and illogical rant, Sackur failed to control the interview – and so everything was being blamed on how evil the Israelis are. Sackur should have pulled the plug on the interview. But in the BBC that would probably have got him the sack.
Here is a long article on how twisted, false – and indeed evil – much of the thinking of the Palestinian population is. It is based on a lot of social research over the years – not some fanciful BBC “narrative”. The illogicality of the palestinians is amazing – but it vents itself in hatred against Jews as Jews. The BBC should be attacking this thinking day in, day out, not giving it a free run. It really is shades of the 1930s, the BBC turning a blind eye to evil.
http://mosaicmagazine.com/essay/2015/11/what-do-palestinians-want/
I am not Jewish, I do not hunt down articles like this. I simply saw a reference to it on a US political blog that mostly covers internal US stuff. Why should I find this info on a US site – but never hear it from the BBC who we are FORCED to pay for ?
The article is well worth reading. Here are a few of the highlights :
On where the blame for trouble lies :
“In matters that necessarily involved both Israel and the Palestinians, massive majorities blamed Israel and denied any responsibility on their side. Cases in point include the suspension of negotiations between Israel and the PLO (1997), the failure of talks at Camp David (2000), the breakdown of a ceasefire during the second intifada (2003), the collapse of the peace process (2004), the outbreak of the first Gaza war (2008), the non-implementation of the Oslo accords (2012), the outbreak of the second Gaza war (2012), and the breakdown of negotiations between the sides and the third Gaza war (2014).
So convinced were Palestinians that Israel was responsible for the Gaza wars, for example, that after each conflict, when asked by JMCC pollsters whether they believed it was “possible for the Palestinian side to avoid it, or was Israel planning to launch the war in all cases,” overwhelming majorities averred that Israel was intending to go to war regardless of Palestinian actions. ”
On the recent Gaza troubles :
“A large majority of Palestinians were convinced that Israel sought deliberately to target civilians, and held Hamas blameless for positioning its leadership, fighters, and weapons in populated areas.”
On the current crisis :
“A majority of Palestinians, 51 percent, assert that Israel will “destroy al-Aqsa and Dome of the Rock mosques and build a synagogue in their place.”
And how about this for total historical nonsense :
“Do you think that Jews have some rights to the land along with Palestinians?” Only 12 percent agreed that “Both Jews and Palestinians have rights to the land,” while more than 80 percent asserted that “This is Palestinian land and Jews have no rights to it.”
On “terrorism” –
“98 percent of Palestinians said the killing of 29 Palestinians in Hebron by Baruch Goldstein was terrorism, but only 15 percent were willing to say the same for an attack by suicide bombers that killed 21 Israelis in Tel Aviv.”
The article records that a majority of Palestinians do not regard 9’11, the Madrid bombings or the London bombings as terrorism. Does the BBC ever report this – the BBC constantly seeks sympathy for the Palestinians and hostility towards Israel, but never tells us that most Palestinians think the London bombings were justifiable !
Ominously they think violence will win :
“When Palestinians look back at sustained campaigns of violence, whether in the second intifada or in the three wars with Hamas, they see them as victories, and they tend to believe that armed campaigns are also likely to be effective in the future.”
“61 percent thought it morally “right” to “name streets after Palestinian suicide bombers like Dalal al-Maghrabi who killed Israeli civilians within Israel.”
The concluding paragraph is aimed at supine Western nations – but applies equally to the blind and biased BBC :
“Palestinian support for violence, and the attitudes underlying that support, have developed and become entrenched over a period of decades. Altering those attitudes can only begin once the attitudes are recognized for what they are, without blinking and without excuses.
It is an article that offers no hope to the Middle East. The support for violence by Palestinians cannot, in my opinion, be changed….. Not for the foreseeable future at least.
Having just read a book “Philistine” by Ramon Bennett. The lies told about Israel are truly shocking.
Arafat should have been hung years ago.
“This is Palestinian land and Jews have no rights to it.”
And I’ll bet that is now the commonly-held view here in Britain, especially amongst the younger generations, the result of years of BBC airbrushing of history.
You are absolutely right johnnythefish. I wonder how many of those sactimonious idiots proudly sporting “Free Palestine” badges and referring to Gaza as an “open prison” have even a rudimentary knowledge of the history of the region?
Huh? Is Bowen blaming Rabin for getting himself assassinated?
Troll
I cannot see Arabs ever joining the civilised world.