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It All Started When Israel Fired Back, BBC Style

How typical of the BBC. Palestinians fired rockets at Israel. The barrage forced schools in Ashkelon and Beersheva to cancel classes. Not a peep from the Beeb, or the rest of the Western media. So…

Pesach Benson
September 11, 2012
12:00 am

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How typical of the BBC.

Palestinians fired rockets at Israel. The barrage forced schools in Ashkelon and Beersheva to cancel classes.

Not a peep from the Beeb, or the rest of the Western media.

So what finally drew the BBC’s attention to the ongoing problem?

Just another example of the phenomenom we call It All Started When Israel Fired Back.

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Tags: BBC, chronological inversion, Gaza, headlines, rockets

Pesach Benson

A Baltimore native, Pesach was with HonestReporting from 2011 to 2020. He edited the Israel Daily News Stream and authored the e-book, Red Lines: HonestReporting’s 8 Categories of Media Bias. Before moving to Israel in 1995, he worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times. Pesach has a B.A. in political science from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he was executive editor of the campus newspaper.

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