tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post6872216229542047346..comments2024-01-01T17:21:52.555+00:00Comments on Is the BBC biased?: Views my ownCraighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-69309611924435896812018-05-22T07:09:44.436+01:002018-05-22T07:09:44.436+01:00"This week there was international condemnati..."This week there was international condemnation of Israel's killing of over 60 Palestinian protesters at the Gaza border fence," says Caroline in her introduction.<br /><br />No surprises there: it's standard pro-Palestinian BBC bleating. "International condemnation" is the phrase the BBC uses to assure its collective self that it cannot be misguided in its loathing of Israel since so much of the planet also loathes Israel.<br /><br />And "protesters" is a really mild word to describe a rabble of thousands (naturally including children as human shields) led by terrorists, many of them armed, to break through the fence under cover of a huge cloud of smoke from burning tyres with one purpose: to kill Jews. (I say "Jews" because there is no intention to kill Arab Israelis.)<br /><br />By the time she broadcast her piece the alleged protest was old news and there is no excuse for ignorance of what actually happened there.<br /><br />And here's the obligatory "Israel said:"<br /><br />"Israel said it was defending its territory and accused Hamas, the Islamist group that controls Gaza, of being behind the protests."<br /><br />Here Caroline is so intent on pushing the standard BBC obfuscation by minimizing terrorist accountability and pointing the finger at Israel that she cannot even see the obvious logical flaw in that statement: since Hamas controls Gaza, who else could be behind the protests? Is she really that ignorant that she imagines a "protest" on that scale could happen against the wishes of Hamas? And does she really not know that Hamas acknowledged that 50 of its members were killed?<br /><br />This is really pathetic and it set the tone for what was to follow. She did rope in an impressive mix of opinion on anti-Semitism, but as long as the BBC refuses to acknowledge the elephant in the room, any attempt it makes to throw light on anti-Semitism will be a futile exercise.<br /><br />Which elephant? The huge Islamic one, of course, lifting its trunk and trumpeting its hatred of Jews and of Israel as the Jewish state.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />TrueToohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14610777629936007816noreply@blogger.com