Post by Teddy Bear on Nov 23, 2015 15:00:51 GMT
While reference to the Paris attack from over a week ago is still headlining most of the media, it appears that Islamic terrorist attacks on innocent civilians in Israel barely gets a mention, if at all, by the BBC.
A 21 year old Israeli woman was stabbed yesterday by a Palestinian terrorist. This is one of many other incidents that have occurred in the past weeks there. We are already aware of how the BBC are only too eager to cover stories where Palestinian women and children are injured because of Israeli retaliation, but less concerned when it is the other way round, even ignoring it completely.
So we can see from the 'priority' given this latest attack on the BBC website. You can see from the Yahoo screenshot of the BBC Mid-East webpage the story is given 6th from the top (highlighted) despite having occurred later than some of those above it. The top story: 'World united in terror fight - Cameron' doesn't even have concern the Mid-East as such, and I'll leave it to you to decide how important is the fact that Morocco is to open a giant solar plant, or that a US reporter has been sentenced in Iran, or an acquittal appeal over a Qatar nursery fire, which for the BBC are far more important to us.
Worth too looking at the actual BBC Mid-East webpage to see that the story of the incident in Israel (highlighted) only shows 'Four dead in West Bank violence' with no text underneath to show that an Israeli woman was murdered. Leaving the viewer to assume that it was Israelis who had killed Palestinians.
Worth also noting that the story that had been read the most from the BBC website yesterday (highlighted) was in fact the one on Israel, so the fact that the BBC decided to 'minimise# it in the way they have shows it has nothing to do with public interest as much as BBC interest.
Finally, the one story that relates in any way to Israel appears at the top right of their webpage and concerns Life as a cancer nurse in Gaza's main hospital Needless to say the content is more there to demonise Israel by showing how 'hard life is' for this nurse because of Israel policy than real concern for her. You can be sure that the BBC will not offer any attempt to explain or balance just why Israel policy on Gaza is such as it is, or that many patients from Gaza are also treated in Israel.
Here's the text from the video article.
A 21 year old Israeli woman was stabbed yesterday by a Palestinian terrorist. This is one of many other incidents that have occurred in the past weeks there. We are already aware of how the BBC are only too eager to cover stories where Palestinian women and children are injured because of Israeli retaliation, but less concerned when it is the other way round, even ignoring it completely.
So we can see from the 'priority' given this latest attack on the BBC website. You can see from the Yahoo screenshot of the BBC Mid-East webpage the story is given 6th from the top (highlighted) despite having occurred later than some of those above it. The top story: 'World united in terror fight - Cameron' doesn't even have concern the Mid-East as such, and I'll leave it to you to decide how important is the fact that Morocco is to open a giant solar plant, or that a US reporter has been sentenced in Iran, or an acquittal appeal over a Qatar nursery fire, which for the BBC are far more important to us.
Worth too looking at the actual BBC Mid-East webpage to see that the story of the incident in Israel (highlighted) only shows 'Four dead in West Bank violence' with no text underneath to show that an Israeli woman was murdered. Leaving the viewer to assume that it was Israelis who had killed Palestinians.
Worth also noting that the story that had been read the most from the BBC website yesterday (highlighted) was in fact the one on Israel, so the fact that the BBC decided to 'minimise# it in the way they have shows it has nothing to do with public interest as much as BBC interest.
Finally, the one story that relates in any way to Israel appears at the top right of their webpage and concerns Life as a cancer nurse in Gaza's main hospital Needless to say the content is more there to demonise Israel by showing how 'hard life is' for this nurse because of Israel policy than real concern for her. You can be sure that the BBC will not offer any attempt to explain or balance just why Israel policy on Gaza is such as it is, or that many patients from Gaza are also treated in Israel.
Here's the text from the video article.
At the age of 27, Azza Jadalla has already lived through six wars - three in the past seven years alone. She is a cancer nurse in Gaza's main hospital, Al-Shifa. Every day she deals with fall-out of the on-going conflict between Israel and Gaza's ruling party, Hamas.
Living in a place with a failing economy means she faces daily electricity and supply shortages at work.
"Sometime we go for two or three months without pay," she says. "But this doesn't make me want to do my job any less, because it's not the patient's fault."
Despite her dedication and due to shortages in Gaza, there is often only so much Ms Jadalla can do for her patients. For one patient Abdul (name has been changed), who is suffering from leukaemia, the only option for further treatment is outside Gaza.
Living in a place with a failing economy means she faces daily electricity and supply shortages at work.
"Sometime we go for two or three months without pay," she says. "But this doesn't make me want to do my job any less, because it's not the patient's fault."
Despite her dedication and due to shortages in Gaza, there is often only so much Ms Jadalla can do for her patients. For one patient Abdul (name has been changed), who is suffering from leukaemia, the only option for further treatment is outside Gaza.