tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post5622516015182284..comments2024-01-01T17:21:52.555+00:00Comments on Is the BBC biased?: One of our ownCraighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-76557668788051245762013-11-04T20:08:37.659+00:002013-11-04T20:08:37.659+00:00Dear Anonymous,
Your comment indicates a lack of u...Dear Anonymous,<br />Your comment indicates a lack of understanding of <a href="http://www.sixdaywar.org/content/jordanianocuupationjerusalem.asp" rel="nofollow">Israeli /Palestinian history.</a><br />Pre 1967 Jerusalem was indeed an occupied city. In 1950, Jordan illegally annexed the territories it had captured in the 1948 war–-eastern Jerusalem and the West Bank.<br /><br /><i> “the celebratory expression 'when Israeli forces reunited divided Jerusalem'”</i><br /><br />After the six day war in 1967 the Israelis certainly <i>did</i> reunite divided Jerusalem.<br />When Jordan controlled East Jerusalem in direct contravention of the 1949 armistice agreements, Jordan did not permit Jews access to their holy sites or to the Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives. You may be uncomfortable with that fact, but there it is.<br />For a step-by-step explanation of precisely how Andreas Gebauer’s emotive essay deceives and misleads, see <a href="http://bbcwatch.org/2013/11/04/bbc-correspondent-compares-anti-terrorist-fence-to-berlin-wall-fails-to-mention-terrorism/" rel="nofollow">BBCWatch.</a> You will not like it any more than I like the inflammatory propaganda you will read on antisemitic websites, but on a more positive note at least your comment gives some credence to the BBC’s claims that they get complaints from both sides.suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02693686958796849316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-74151997740911305752013-11-04T16:17:38.328+00:002013-11-04T16:17:38.328+00:00I am deeply uncomfortable with the celebratory exp...I am deeply uncomfortable with the celebratory expression 'when Israeli forces reunited divided Jerusalem', Jerusalem is an occupied city from which Palestinians are still being 'ethnically cleansed' - Israel is surrounded by Palestinian refugees of which there are said to be some 6.5 million, coincidentally almost exactly the same number as ther are Jewish Israelis, Equally disconcerting is Andreas Gebauer's expression 'were allowed to stay' seeming to imply that the Israelis should be commended for 'allowing the Palestinians' to stay. More honest might be to say 'descendants of those Palestinians who were not driven into exile'. Remember that some 400 Palestinian villages were bulldozed by Israelis so the people, whose home they were, had nothing to return to. Israel is Palestine. I am also surprised to see the term 'Palestinian settlements in the West Bank' in the From Our Own Correspondent Online Introductory page. This implies, though I cannot believe it is intended, a mutuality of Isreali settlement and Palestinian village. This of course is quite wrong, the term 'settlement' in 'Israeli Settlement' implies 'a colony', as in colonial settlement, something extraneous, while using the term settlement in relation to Palestinian villages may not be exactly wrong, though its use is unfortunate, for they are human settlements as London is a human settlement. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com