Post by Teddy Bear on Jun 29, 2010 19:54:57 GMT
Just imagine you live in a small village and every few days you would hear a siren and know that you only have a few minutes to get to the nearest shelter or take a chance on being hit by a crude rocket fired in your direction.
For most people it would be an untenable situation creating great strain and stress, but the BBC seem to believe that if you're Israeli you should just put up with it. The fact that these crude rockets are not able to do more damage than they do, even though they are intended to kill as many as they can, has little bearing on things.
Let's examine the following BBC article on an Israeli raid today against militants found firing rockets into Israel.
First the headline Israeli air strike kills Palestinian man, wounds two
Notice they killed a Palestinian MAN - not a militant firing rockets at them. They would no doubt justify putting it this way in these sentences: A Palestinian man was killed and two others wounded in an Israeli air strike in Gaza, medics there said.
The Israeli air force said it fired on militants in the northern Gaza Strip after they fired a rocket into Israel.
Then
A BBC correspondent says the suspected militants are thought to be from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
I'm reminded of the humorous names in Monty Python's 'Life of Brian' where each group calls themselves by some ludicrous name. What's in a name you wonder? Well the BBC makes it clear in the next sentence:
The group is said to operate independently of Hamas, the Islamist movement that controls Gaza.
So you are meant to understand that it is not Hamas who does these dastardly acts but a small independent group of little import about which Hamas has no control.
Just like the burning down of a UN summer camp in Gaza on Sunday, the second time it has been attacked within a month where it is attributed The UN says about 25 armed men attacked the beach camp in the middle of Sunday night.
Nobody was hurt, and nobody has claimed responsibility for the attack.
But in a similar incident last month a previously unknown Islamist group said its had attacked a UN summer camp in Gaza city.
For Hamas to be 'the good guys' and gain more acceptance by the world community, they must be seen not to be behind these acts, and with media organisations like the BBC ready to throw their weight behind them, it is clear they will probably achieve it.
The BBC goes on:
Rocket fire out of Gaza has been greatly reduced over the past year after Hamas reigned in attacks, but there continues to be sporadic fire from other militant groups, says the BBC's Jon Donnison in Gaza.
This 'reigning in' was obviously due to Hamas becoming lawful and wanting to display human morality, and nothing to do with Israel's raid into Gaza over a year ago that threatened to destroy Hamas infrastructure. So it's obscure if you don't follow events there about why the names of a group perpetrating these acts might be important.
The the BBC has to show how evil and wrong Israel is to counter attack these militants, which they do in the following way:
It is almost always ineffective with rockets mostly landing in open fields, our correspondent says. One Thai farmer in Israel has been killed in the past year.
Dozens of Palestinian militants have been killed in attacks from Israel over the same period.
The BBC doesn't seem to understand that the Thai farmer was going about his peaceful business and making a living for his family, the Palestinian militant scum were trying to inflict as much misery and suffering as possible. Pity the Israelis haven't killed far more of them, they are instrumental in bringing down the life quality for those peace desiring Palestinians as well as Israelis.
For most people it would be an untenable situation creating great strain and stress, but the BBC seem to believe that if you're Israeli you should just put up with it. The fact that these crude rockets are not able to do more damage than they do, even though they are intended to kill as many as they can, has little bearing on things.
Let's examine the following BBC article on an Israeli raid today against militants found firing rockets into Israel.
First the headline Israeli air strike kills Palestinian man, wounds two
Notice they killed a Palestinian MAN - not a militant firing rockets at them. They would no doubt justify putting it this way in these sentences: A Palestinian man was killed and two others wounded in an Israeli air strike in Gaza, medics there said.
The Israeli air force said it fired on militants in the northern Gaza Strip after they fired a rocket into Israel.
Then
A BBC correspondent says the suspected militants are thought to be from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
I'm reminded of the humorous names in Monty Python's 'Life of Brian' where each group calls themselves by some ludicrous name. What's in a name you wonder? Well the BBC makes it clear in the next sentence:
The group is said to operate independently of Hamas, the Islamist movement that controls Gaza.
So you are meant to understand that it is not Hamas who does these dastardly acts but a small independent group of little import about which Hamas has no control.
Just like the burning down of a UN summer camp in Gaza on Sunday, the second time it has been attacked within a month where it is attributed The UN says about 25 armed men attacked the beach camp in the middle of Sunday night.
Nobody was hurt, and nobody has claimed responsibility for the attack.
But in a similar incident last month a previously unknown Islamist group said its had attacked a UN summer camp in Gaza city.
For Hamas to be 'the good guys' and gain more acceptance by the world community, they must be seen not to be behind these acts, and with media organisations like the BBC ready to throw their weight behind them, it is clear they will probably achieve it.
The BBC goes on:
Rocket fire out of Gaza has been greatly reduced over the past year after Hamas reigned in attacks, but there continues to be sporadic fire from other militant groups, says the BBC's Jon Donnison in Gaza.
This 'reigning in' was obviously due to Hamas becoming lawful and wanting to display human morality, and nothing to do with Israel's raid into Gaza over a year ago that threatened to destroy Hamas infrastructure. So it's obscure if you don't follow events there about why the names of a group perpetrating these acts might be important.
The the BBC has to show how evil and wrong Israel is to counter attack these militants, which they do in the following way:
It is almost always ineffective with rockets mostly landing in open fields, our correspondent says. One Thai farmer in Israel has been killed in the past year.
Dozens of Palestinian militants have been killed in attacks from Israel over the same period.
The BBC doesn't seem to understand that the Thai farmer was going about his peaceful business and making a living for his family, the Palestinian militant scum were trying to inflict as much misery and suffering as possible. Pity the Israelis haven't killed far more of them, they are instrumental in bringing down the life quality for those peace desiring Palestinians as well as Israelis.