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Democracy for the Middle East

 December 06, 2002

Church of England

The BBC, whose coverage of the Israel-Palestinian dispute has been described by Andrew Sullivan as "sheer viciousness and slant", continues to crucify the Jews (see below: Related Posts). This time the vehicle is another false Israel massacre story reminiscent of the BBC's earlier invention at Jenin. The present story (link removed, see below) concerns today's Israeli attack on Hamas in Gaza and leads as follows:

A United Nations official says eight of the 10 Palestinians killed during an Israeli raid on a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip on Friday morning were unarmed civilians.

Nice to see that the Oxbridgians that inhabit these newsrooms are working hard in the tradition of their even less subtle forebearers. But the trees shouldn't distract us from the forest.

The BBC surely recognizes that the breakdown of the nonproliferation status-quo taken together with the rise of asymmetric warfare has existential implications for the State of Israel. It is also aware that by saturating the world's air-waves with viciously slanted depictions of the Middle East conflict, it is fanning the flames of extremism. So why, one might wonder, would the BBC elect to broadcast hate TV and increase the risk of Armageddon?

Dear reader, said forest is in full view but difficult to face. The truth is that the public television bureau of the United Kingdom now views itself as a partner in the coalition to destroy Israel - and it is apparently content to destroy the world in the process.

Assuming that the BBC's propaganda continues apace, the day will surely arrive when it must report what it has achieved; a day when images of the unimaginable fill television screens around the world; a day when one of its few surviving correspondents describes a "brutal occupation of Arab lands", a "terrible weapon of mass destruction", and a "shameful Israeli response"; a day when a London news reader tries to explain what the world has wrought by intoning European Christendom's catechism of Jew murder:

They had it coming.

The BBC should reconsider the value of continuing along this irresponsible path. Hounding the Jews isn't what it used to be, and if events were to unfold as just described, London would almost certainly be among the first to receive a "letter to the editor" the contents of which were alluded to in Israel National Security Adviser Ephraim Halevy's recent statement:

Whoever gives the terrorists any aide whatsoever -- identifies with terror. It is possible that due to temporary conditions ... not all those aiding terror will be taken care of simultaneously ... But it is clear that at the end of the day whoever fails to clarify his positions here and now and back them with deeds, will be marked as an accessory to terror and will pay the full price for it.

From our vantage point in America, instigating genocide qualifies as "whatsoever" and the BBC will have surely had it coming.

Update: Less than an hour after we posted Church of England, the BBC killed their story, altered its link to point to a new one (Gaza Killings Prompt Palestinian Rage), and buried the following unapologetic explanation in paragraph five:

An initial account by a United Nations official in the camp - that eight were unarmed civilians, including two who worked for the UN - has now been contradicted by a more senior UN spokesman who told the BBC that no conclusions about the victims' identities had yet been reached.

The BBC deserves no praise for trying to window dress its hate campaign with the tropes of professional journalese. Chalk this up as one for the good guys and another stain on the BBC's reputation.

[Related posts: Europe's Incompetent Press, Close the BBC]

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