BBC Pounds Israel
August 21, 2011 14:53 by Simon PloskerIn the hours after the terrible terrorist attack near Eilat that left 8 Israelis dead and many more wounded, what was the BBC’s headline story?
Once again, in true BBC style, the story is not about a terrorist attack on Israelis but on Israeli counter-measures, presented as aggressive actions.
And what did the BBC choose to focus on as over 100 rockets and mortars rained on Israel’s southern towns and cities over the weekend?
In the second item on the BBC News homepage, the BBC is concerned with Egyptian anger against Israel over the deaths of Egyptian policemen during the Thursday terror attack. Where is the dedicated coverage of the rocket attacks from Gaza?
And what of the terror attack itself? According to the BBC:
It happened on the Israeli-Egyptian border as Israeli troops pursued suspected militants who had fired shots into Israel, killing eight.
Let’s look at this sentence again:
- “Suspected militants”: Even putting aside the use of the term “militant” instead of terrorist, what exactly is “suspected” about the ? The terrorists had already engaged in a gun battle with Israeli forces after shooting at civilian buses and vehicles, including the use of a rocket propelled grenade on a family car. How could they still be “suspected”?
- “Fired shots into Israel”: The terrorists had, as outlined above, done far more than simply “firing shots”. In addition, the attacks took place on sovereign Israeli territory near the Egyptian border, something the BBC fails to acknowledge.
In addition the BBC, despite being a 24 hour rolling news service, was still quoting a figure of 20 rockets since Saturday night despite the fact that nearly five times as many rockets had fallen since the BBC last updated its story.
Yet again, the BBC has demonstrated its anti-Israel bias. Send your complaints through the BBC Complaints website – www.bbc.co.uk/complaints. For detailed instructions on how to navigate the BBC Complaints website, click here.
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Britt-Marie Jensen
2:39 am
Aug 23, 2011
I cannot understand why people blame Israel for problems that are made by the palestinians !!!
I am not a jew but I am on there side. Most of the world seems to me like crazy. Until now I have only seen one country who is on the side of Israel I must say this is very poor. Have the world lost the old knowledge of the Old Testament? See Ezekiel chapter34-48!
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DR Banda
2:13 pm
Aug 23, 2011
Jensen , you are correct
Britain etc has lost its hunger FOR TRUTH and wants bias pretending as fact.
Don’t forget ARAB OIL
videos at 2TRUE2 youtube
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Maggie Cinge
1:24 am
Aug 26, 2011
CNN is sporting the headline “Israeli Warplanes Strike Gaza”. This while rockets are being fired at my family and neighborhood. CNN should be ashamed of themselves. It’s getting so I can’t even read the news it makes me so angry.
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Whyatt Wright
5:17 pm
Aug 31, 2011
Bear in mind not all Muslims are terrorist BUT 99.99% OF ALL TERRORISTS ARE MUSLIMS. If the BBC & CNN are trying to report their bias remarks to impress their readers better think twice. Instead of singing “My country tis of thy sweet land of liberty” & “God save our gracious Queen”. We will be singing Blessed be to Mohammad & Praise be to Alla.. Think of what there doing
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Tejano
7:44 pm
Aug 31, 2011
Oh, my. Suspected militants who had fired shots into Israel, killing eight. Where is Israel, anyhow? Does anybody know?
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leftist
7:41 pm
Sep 05, 2011
Exactly, the attacks originated from the sinai, so why is gaza being hounded with israeli airstrikes, if israel have a right to respond, dont they
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Tejano
8:14 pm
Sep 05, 2011
Israel pounds Gaza because she wants a home for Jews and wants no one else in it
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Emes
12:15 am
Sep 06, 2011
BBC today must have its toe in the sand! – how will it explain the latest news of the MI6 who joined forces with CIA, torture, rendition, and all the dirt eminating from files and survivors of terror all backed by Britain. Again we have Blair in the shadows of this “now you see me now you don’t” situation. – And BBC you have the audacity to point fingers at Israel for at very least defending itself! – Those in glass houses eh!
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Tejano
4:58 pm
Sep 06, 2011
Yes, there ain’t no justice if Israel can’t defend what she steals
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Jayson Rex
3:51 pm
Sep 14, 2011
Tejano,
There is also no justice if we leave a single antisemite standing. But with patience, we will get there. Oh, yes. When the time comes, don’t come crawling on your knees beging for mercy, like all cowards do.
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Emes
10:51 pm
Sep 06, 2011
I love to see ignorance in action and Tejano is a prime example – Israel belongs to Jews always did and always will – Palestinians appeared like mould on cheese and, unlike penicillin, can never have remedial properties within its take-over of any land, they will take, take, take but never propogate anything of substance, they leave a trail of schmutz, poison everything in their wake and continue crying to the world that they been hard-done-by. The rest of the world empathises because it is easier to hide behind this body of sad sacs instead of displaying their own whole-hearted antisemitism.
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Tejano
11:17 pm
Sep 06, 2011
Huh? Israel belongs to Jews always did and always will? How about when 5,000 Jews lived there? I’d love to see you explain how that works.
That land belonged to the people who live in it for 13 centuries before the first Polak ever bothered to show up
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Jayson Rex
4:06 pm
Sep 14, 2011
TEJANO, TOUGH LUCK. THE ARABS CURRENTLY LIVING IN CISJORDAN WILL STILL HAVE TO GO, REGARDLESS HOW MANY YEARS THEY CLAIM TO HAVE USED THAT SPACE WITHOUT A LEASE FROM . WHERE SHOULD THEY GO? ANYWHARE OTHER ARABS LIVE. AS WE ALL KNOW, AND YOU SHOULD TOO, MUSLIMS, WHETHER ARABS OR NOT, CANNOT LIVE AMONG OR NEXT TO CIVILIZED PEOPLE. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES AS THE CURRENT RIOTS IN EUROPE PROVE IT. THEIR PLACE IS DEEP IN THE DESERT, WITH THEIR CAMELS AND SOME HORSES. SAUDI ARABIA, THE LAND OF BIN LADENS, APPARENTLY HAS PLENTY OF SPACE TO STORE THIS HUMAN GARBAGE. PROBLEM SOLVED!
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