As I See It..
11 March '12..
The blatant misreporting and misrepresentation of Israel’s self-defensive action against rocket fire from Gaza continues to be a national disgrace.
There’s something very rotten in the State of the BBC’s Middle East desk on its news website.
Only today did the continuing murderous barrage of southern Israel which puts a million lives at risk, not to mention property and treasure, actually make it to the website’s home page. Although even that small mention now seems to have disappeared.
And what was the headline to direct us to this sudden escalation in rocket fire from Gaza which has seen over 200 missiles launched since Friday? Was it “Miltitants in Gaza launch rocket barrage against southern Israel’?
Not bloody likely. This is the BBC, remember and they seem only interested, for the sake of balance, of course, to highlight Israel’s response in defence of its citizens.
‘Israel launches fresh airstrikes on Gaza’
This was the disgusting headline.
“Israeli (sic) says almost 100 rockets fired from Gaza have struck Israel since the exchange of fire began.”
Subtle, no? Israel ‘says’ – after all, you take what Israel ‘says’ with a strong dose of scepticism, no? And ‘since the exchange of fire’. Thus, in a sentence, neutralising and sanitising the assault on Israel and characterising it as morally equivalent that Israel’s fire, in response to the rockets, is somehow a justification for the rocket fire from the Gaza side. So, once again, cause and response are turned on their head.
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The BBC is always biased against Israel in whatever it does, only this morning i switched on and certainly not to my delight, saw the face of Yvonne Ridley, Galloway's pal who converted to Islam, and whose programme was it? Why the Arab lover Nicky Campbell. I was not sure if i was in England or not, judging by the Muslim audience. How about the hand-picked people for question time, and for this a licence is required?
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