Post by Teddy Bear on May 23, 2006 23:48:44 GMT
Once again Melanie Phillips comments on another example of BBC anti-Israel Bias, despite their recent 'independant' panel just about giving them a clean bill of health.
How can this NOT be bias?
How can this NOT be bias?
The usual moral inversion by the BBC:
[shadow=red,left,300]Gaza always feels like a pressure cooker. How could it be anything else? It is one of the most overcrowded places in the world. Getting on for a million and a half people live in a strip of land around 50km long and 9-12km wide. But in this claustrophobic, fragile place, brutalised by getting on for 40 years of a violent Israeli occupation, the temperature is rising.[/shadow]
Excuse me? ‘Brutalised by a violent Israeli occupation’? Every word in this phrase is a distortion. There is no ‘occupation’ in the accepted sense of the word: ever since Oslo, the Arabs of Gaza and the West Bank have been ruled by their own Palestinian Authority. Israeli military actions in these areas have been necessitated solely by the terrorism inflicted upon Israelis by their inhabitants and Israel’s need to defend its citizens against mass murder. (The other Israeli activity has been routinely treating Palestinians from Gaza in Israeli hospitals, about which the BBC is silent). The Arabs of Gaza were not ‘brutalised’ by Israel; Israel is having to defend itself against them because they are brutal. Palestinian Arab terrorism against Israel predated the ‘occupation’ of the disputed territories, and Arab terrorism against Palestinian Jews predated the restoration of Israel as a Jewish state.
[shadow=red,left,300]Like it or not, what is happening amounts to collective punishment.[/shadow]
Yes, it is indeed collective punishment: a century of collective punishment by the Arabs of the Jews, for asserting the right of the Jews to live as a nation in their own historic land.