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The BBC’s role is not to keep viewers informed. It’s to persuade them a clear crime against humanity by Israel is, in fact, highly complicated geopolitics they cannot hope to understand
You can tell how bad levels of starvation now are in Gaza – as the population there begins the third month of a complete aid blockade by Israel – because last night the BBC finally dedicated a serious chunk of its main news programme, the News at Ten, to the issue.
But while upsetting footage of a skin-and-bones, five-month-old baby was shown, most of the segment was, of course, dedicated to confusing audiences – by two-sidesing Israel’s genocidal programme of starving 2 million-plus Palestinian civilians.
Particularly shocking was the BBC’s failure in this extended report to mention even once the fact that Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has been a fugitive for months from the International Criminal Court, which wants him on trial for crimes against humanity. Why? For using starvation as a weapon of war against the civilian population.
I have yet to see the BBC, or any other major British media outlet, append the status “wanted war crimes suspect” when mentioning Netanyahu in stories. That is all the more unconscionable on this occasion, in a story directly related to the very issue – starving a civilian population – he is charged over.
Was mention of the arrest warrant against him avoided because it might signal a little too clearly that the highest legal authorities in the world attribute starvation in Gaza directly to Israel and its government, and do not see it – as the British establishment media apparently do – as some continuing, unfortunate “humanitarian” consequence of “war”.
Predictably misleading too was BBC Verify’s input. It provided a timeline of Israel’s intensified blockade that managed to pin the blame not on Israel, even though it is the one blocking all aid, but implicitly on Hamas.
Verify’s reporter asserted that in early March Israel “blocked humanitarian aid demanding that Hamas extend a ceasefire and release the remaining hostages”. He then jumped to 18 March, stating: “Israel resumed military operations.”
Viewers were left – presumably intentionally – with the impression that Hamas had rejected a continuation of the ceasefire and had refused to release the last of the hostages.
None of that is true. In fact, Israel never honoured the ceasefire, continuing to attack Gaza and kill civilians throughout. But worse, Israel’s supposed “extension” was actually its unilateral violation of the ceasefire by insisting on radical changes to the terms that had already been agreed, and which included Hamas releasing the hostages.
Israel broke the ceasefire precisely so it had the pretext it needed to return to starving Gaza’s civilians – and the hostages whose safety it proclaims to care about – as part of its efforts to make them so desperate they are prepared to risk their lives by forcing open the short border with neighbouring Sinai sealed by Egypt.
Yesterday, an Israeli government minister once again made clear what the game plan has been from the very start. “Gaza will be entirely destroyed,” Bezalel Smotrich, the finance minister, said. Gaza’s population, he added, would be forced to “leave in great numbers to third countries” – in other words, Israel intends to carry out what the rest of us would call the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, as it has been doing continuously for eight decades.
What is the point of the BBC having a Verify service – supposedly there to fact-check and ensure viewers get only the unvarnished truth – when its team are themselves peddling gross distortions of the truth?
The BBC and its Verify service are not keeping viewers informed. They are propagandising them into believing a clear crime against humanity by Israel is, in fact, highly complicated geopolitics that audiences cannot hope to understand.
The establishment media’s aim is to so confuse audiences that they will throw up their hands and say: “To hell with Israel and the Palestinians! They are as bad as each other. Leave it to the politicians and diplomats to sort out.”
In any other circumstance, it would strike you as obvious that starving children en masse is morally abhorrent, and that anyone who does it, or excuses it, is a monster. The role of the BBC is to persuade you that what should be obvious to you is, in fact, more complicated than you can appreciate.
There may be skin-and-bones babies, but there are also hostages. There may be tens of thousands of children being slaughtered, but there is also a risk of antisemitism. Israeli officials may be calling for the eradication of the Palestinian people, but the Jewish state they run needs to be preserved at all costs.
If we could spend five minutes in Gaza without the constant, babbling distractions of these so-called journalists, the truth would be clear. It’s a genocide. It was always a genocide.
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In other words, war is hell.
Whenever you encounter genocide Jews and their goy servants, you can have a fun drinking game: do a shot every time they say complex. Be careful, since the inmates busted out of their concentration camp, you could die of alcohol poisoning in 30 min.
It’s so ham-handed, you hear NPR dupes start to talk about it and nothing comes out, then… Complex.
What would duke skywalker think?
Interesting thing I read about the other day: a wikipedia article about the claimed persecution of homosexuals in Chechnya. It’s thought up to 100 people were detained, in a camp, and 2 were killed.
The condemnation of this from the US, the UK, France and other countries was very strong. The US imposed sanctions against Chechen officials apparently and released damning human rights reports. The BBC mentioned here, automatically took this as an obvious terrible outrage against humanity.
Compare that to Palestine. How many have been killed and injured ? How many have been imprisoned ? Where’s even 1% of the condemnation ?
I’m sure there’s plenty of other examples of this distortion of reality.
Even if one isn’t that invested in the topic of Palestine it’s shameful the system has got this bad. It’s totally corrupted. The hypocrisy is horrible. Its values are all inverted and backwards.
And with that said, we all know our priorities.
Yes, risk of antisemitism is MUCH more important!
There is nothing special about children. Children are pawns in life used by adults. They are no different than small, furry animals. Oh, how cute! So sad for them to have to die do their the choices of their parents.
Keep whining about fake genocide Cook. Relatively few people believe there is any genocide in Gaza, nor do they care.
So sad for you.
If it’s a war, can you name a single battle?
Can you name a single battle in the atomic bombing of the civilian-filled cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, or the multi-night Allied fire-bombings of Dresden?
The on-going, decades-long, Israeli-Arab war started the day Israel declared its independence on May 14th, 1948. Anyone with a brain knows that if the shoe was on the other foot – if the “Palestinians” were doing to Israel what Israel is currently doing to Gaza – the entire Muslim world would be cheering the “Palestinians” on to hurry up and finish the job; when the job was finished, these “Palestinians” would be lauded as heroes.
I want our country to have nothing to do with both Jews and Muslims; they can kill each other “over there” on their own GD dime and they can also deal with the refugees. The USA has more than enough problems of its own without taking on the problems of others.
Your comparison between Chechen homos and Gazan “Palestinians” is one of them.
Are the homos in Grozny being used as human shields by a terrorist organization they support?
Did the Chechen homos launch and/or support a murderous attack and kidnapping operation in Chechnya?
No, they didn’t.
The difference – Einstein – is that the “Palestinians” in Gaza are being attacked for what they did and the homos in Chechnya are being attacked for who they are.
Those were both campaigns within the scope of World War II — not precisely ‘battles’, yet distinct events within the larger phenomenon of that war. You’ll note that Israel originally referred to its post-October 7 action as an operation — namely, “Operation Swords of Iron”, later changing this to “Iron Swords War”.
Not even close.
Israel’s designs upon displacing Palestinians long before 1948 are a matter of established historical record. The Hashomer, an early iteration of the IOF, were militating against Palestinians about a decade before the Balfour Declaration — which, of itself, constituted a unilateral offensive against the indigenous people of Palestine.
About one decade prior to 1948, we find a protracted series of campaigns carried out against British soldiers, Palestinian Arabs, and Jewish dissidents by the Haganah, the Irgun Z’vai Leumi, and the Stern Gang, all Jewish terror groups hellbent on realizing the objective of ethnic cleansing:
ZIONIST TERRORISM AND CRIMES IN PALESTINE: 1939-1945
Part I
Part II
Ben Gurion himself stated, ““From 1946 to 1947 there were scarcely any Arab attacks on the Yishuv [the Jewish community in Palestine].” In 1947 alone, the year prior to the ’48 war, Jewish terror attacks were legion:
Hamas: A Pale Image of the Jewish Irgun And Lehi Gangs
https://www.wrmea.org/2006-may-june/hamas-a-pale-image-of-the-jewish-irgun-and-lehi-gangs.html
Anyone with a brain who bothers to study the region’s history knows that Jews in the Holy Land lived there in relative peace and civility with their Muslim neighbors for well over one millennium before the Zionist project began in earnest. In fact, Jewish scholars of Jewish history themselves extol that period as one without which Jews would have suffered the fate of the dodo bird:
How Islam Saved the Jews — David Wasserstein
Would things be different now if Muslims returned to rule? It’s certain there would be a period of retribution, though, again, anyone with a brain who’s been following the timeline closely knows that Muslims haven’t done what their Jewish counterparts have: no evidence of deliberate infanticide, no evidence of rape, no evidence of gratuitous property destruction, and so on and so forth, so your ‘celebration’ scenario is just the same old psychological projection typical of people who can’t be bothered to seriously investigate the subject.
I agree that America shouldn’t be involved over there, but affecting unequivocal decoupling isn’t realistic in today’s world. What’s needed is balance and equity. May it happen, and soon, at that.
The Gaza Genocide has revealed the Zionist plan for their enemy, the rest of humanity.
There can be no mercy asked and none given. For as long as they control the Western
Governments, they will pick off other nations, isolate and destroy them. Russia was
their first target, now the Arabs and Iran, and already they have set their sights on
China by attempting to wreck their economy and keeping Taiwan a Western vassal.
The summation is that only Russia, China, Iran and North Korea are preventing the
the Zionists from achieving complete mastery of the World. Thanks to the U.S.,
all of the pieces are conveniently falling into place. We are the means to their end,
and if you think this is just another conspiracy theory,
you have lost touch with reality.
You see here that meanjew is a TRUE Judaic. Children, even babies, must be slaughtered if a Jew says that they will grow up to ‘oppose’ the Jews. Sniper shots to the head are preferred. They are, indeed, truly unique among humanity.
The ruling elites of the West are, without doubt, the most evil and hypocritical scum imaginable. When Judaic money hoves into view, ALL ‘morality’ goes down the toilet.
It’s NOT ‘war’, child-killer-it’s GENOCIDE.
To the contrary homosexuals are persecuted for what they do. Palestinians are genocided for living where they live. Faggot.
Yahu’s support within Israel is crumbling to new lows, and Trump
needs only to cut off shipments of weapons to remove him.
My first impression of Jo Jo was that he must be a neo-Nazi, the ghost of Julius Streicher
come back to defame the Jews, but his complete absence of compassion is very much like
Smotrich, Gvir and a sizable minority of Jews worldwide, including Bibi, himself.
They are hateful, bloodthirsty, and disposable. Little else, need be said.
The Persians saved the Jews. Islam saved the Jews.
Russians, Brits and Americans saved the Jews
I trust that they were not expecting gratitude.
“No good deed should go unpunished.”
Jewish proverb.