Post by Teddy Bear on Aug 1, 2010 20:07:24 GMT
I'm no journalist, but I can follow events going on in the world and form a fair and intelligent reasoning as to their desired purpose. Certain events count on the fact that a particular segment of our media will report them in a certain manner. So it is that the BBC actually serves militant and terrorist Islamists.
On Friday morning, Hamas terrorists fired a grad rocket into Ashkelon, a major Israeli city about 10km north of Gaza with a population of about 120,000 citizens. The fact that it exploded without causing injury is immaterial. No society can tolerate such acts of war without retaliating. So it was that Israeli launched an air attack against the group that had fired the rocket, killing a Hamas commander, as well as targeting tunnels that were used to smuggle arms into Gaza from Egypt.
Point is, what was the reason for Hamas to have launched an attack to begin with? Just recently Israel began allowing more varied goods into Gaza following international 'humanitarian' outcry. They even allowed in building materials, knowing full well they could be used by Hamas in their tunnel building exploits. so surely Hamas should have been happy with the way things were going.
If you have been following the news of this area recently you would know that much pressure has been put on the Palestinian Prime Minister Abbas to restart direct peace talks with Israel, to which he has just agreed. This pressure has been applied mostly via the United States so that Obama can appear to be doing something, but it even brought the Arab league to affirm their consent. Not that for a moment do I believe that Abbas would follow through on any peace deal arrived at, but Hamas wants it to be known that it controls whatever happens between Israel and the Palestinians.
So it decided to launch a rocket against Israel. Not because it expected there to be any major carnage from it, but if it happened that would be a bonus, but precisely because they knew Israel would have no choice but to retaliate. Then when it did, all they needed was the media to report it in a certain way that would make Israel appear as the aggressor, and their purpose would be fulfilled.
Somehow they knew the BBC would be only too happy to oblige, as you will see from the story below. Any wonder that Shimon Peres just called England anti-Semitic?
Notice first the headline in the BBC article: Hamas fighter killed in Israel air strikes on Gaza as compared to that in the Telegraph: Israel retaliates to rocket with air strikes in Gaza
Now for the BBC article, check out the final paragraphs and see what the BBC are up to.
'Correspondents say such attacks are almost always ineffective, with rockets mostly landing in open fields.'
Really? I would say the BBC are making them very effective.
With President Peres just having made this statement “The president did express concern that some people in Britain do not fully appreciate the difficulties of facing an onslaught of terror whilst adhering to democratic practice, as Israel does,” the statement read. “Israel civilians have endured over 10,000 missiles fired on them from Israel.”
But as you see - that fact never appears in the BBC articles.
Do you see bias?
On Friday morning, Hamas terrorists fired a grad rocket into Ashkelon, a major Israeli city about 10km north of Gaza with a population of about 120,000 citizens. The fact that it exploded without causing injury is immaterial. No society can tolerate such acts of war without retaliating. So it was that Israeli launched an air attack against the group that had fired the rocket, killing a Hamas commander, as well as targeting tunnels that were used to smuggle arms into Gaza from Egypt.
Point is, what was the reason for Hamas to have launched an attack to begin with? Just recently Israel began allowing more varied goods into Gaza following international 'humanitarian' outcry. They even allowed in building materials, knowing full well they could be used by Hamas in their tunnel building exploits. so surely Hamas should have been happy with the way things were going.
If you have been following the news of this area recently you would know that much pressure has been put on the Palestinian Prime Minister Abbas to restart direct peace talks with Israel, to which he has just agreed. This pressure has been applied mostly via the United States so that Obama can appear to be doing something, but it even brought the Arab league to affirm their consent. Not that for a moment do I believe that Abbas would follow through on any peace deal arrived at, but Hamas wants it to be known that it controls whatever happens between Israel and the Palestinians.
So it decided to launch a rocket against Israel. Not because it expected there to be any major carnage from it, but if it happened that would be a bonus, but precisely because they knew Israel would have no choice but to retaliate. Then when it did, all they needed was the media to report it in a certain way that would make Israel appear as the aggressor, and their purpose would be fulfilled.
Somehow they knew the BBC would be only too happy to oblige, as you will see from the story below. Any wonder that Shimon Peres just called England anti-Semitic?
Notice first the headline in the BBC article: Hamas fighter killed in Israel air strikes on Gaza as compared to that in the Telegraph: Israel retaliates to rocket with air strikes in Gaza
Now for the BBC article, check out the final paragraphs and see what the BBC are up to.
Hamas fighter killed in Israel air strikes on Gaza
Several Israeli missiles struck targets in central Gaza and Gaza City late on Friday Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip have killed a Hamas fighter and wounded several other people.
Missiles struck central Gaza and Gaza City late on Friday; tunnels on the strip's southern border were also hit.
The strikes came after a rocket fired from the coastal enclave by militants earlier on Friday hit the Israeli city of Ashkelon on the Mediterranean coast.
That attack caused no casualties but damaged a building and cars in the city, 12km (7 miles) north of Gaza.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier said he took the rocket attack on Ashkelon - which has a population of 125,000 - "very seriously".
The city's mayor said the attack was the most serious since Israel ended an offensive against the Gaza Strip in January 2009.
Reduced violence
Hamas - the Islamist group which controls the territory - named the dead militant as Issa Batran, 42 - a commander of the group's military wing in central Gaza and a rocket maker.
The military wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, said eight other Hamas supporters and three civilians were also injured in air strikes on a Hamas military training camp in Gaza City, smuggling tunnels along the Gaza-Egypt border and a target outside a central Gaza refugee camp.
The group said it would avenge the killing.
Israel's military confirmed the air strikes and said they came in response to the Ashkelon attack.
Rocket fire from Gaza has reduced in the past year after Hamas reined in attacks, but sporadic fire from other militant groups continues.
Correspondents say such attacks are almost always ineffective, with rockets mostly landing in open fields.
One Thai farmer in Israel has been killed in the past year.
Dozens of Palestinians, some of them civilians, have been killed in attacks from Israel over the same period.
Several Israeli missiles struck targets in central Gaza and Gaza City late on Friday Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip have killed a Hamas fighter and wounded several other people.
Missiles struck central Gaza and Gaza City late on Friday; tunnels on the strip's southern border were also hit.
The strikes came after a rocket fired from the coastal enclave by militants earlier on Friday hit the Israeli city of Ashkelon on the Mediterranean coast.
That attack caused no casualties but damaged a building and cars in the city, 12km (7 miles) north of Gaza.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier said he took the rocket attack on Ashkelon - which has a population of 125,000 - "very seriously".
The city's mayor said the attack was the most serious since Israel ended an offensive against the Gaza Strip in January 2009.
Reduced violence
Hamas - the Islamist group which controls the territory - named the dead militant as Issa Batran, 42 - a commander of the group's military wing in central Gaza and a rocket maker.
The military wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, said eight other Hamas supporters and three civilians were also injured in air strikes on a Hamas military training camp in Gaza City, smuggling tunnels along the Gaza-Egypt border and a target outside a central Gaza refugee camp.
The group said it would avenge the killing.
Israel's military confirmed the air strikes and said they came in response to the Ashkelon attack.
Rocket fire from Gaza has reduced in the past year after Hamas reined in attacks, but sporadic fire from other militant groups continues.
Correspondents say such attacks are almost always ineffective, with rockets mostly landing in open fields.
One Thai farmer in Israel has been killed in the past year.
Dozens of Palestinians, some of them civilians, have been killed in attacks from Israel over the same period.
'Correspondents say such attacks are almost always ineffective, with rockets mostly landing in open fields.'
Really? I would say the BBC are making them very effective.
With President Peres just having made this statement “The president did express concern that some people in Britain do not fully appreciate the difficulties of facing an onslaught of terror whilst adhering to democratic practice, as Israel does,” the statement read. “Israel civilians have endured over 10,000 missiles fired on them from Israel.”
But as you see - that fact never appears in the BBC articles.
Do you see bias?