BBC Bias Continues
Criticized in the past by CAMERA for highlighting Palesitnian grievances and blaming Israel, while miniimizing or glossing over Palestinian violence and terrorism, BBC is at it yet again.
A quick glance at BBC Web site headlines this week would suggest that Israel is always the aggressor and Palestinians the perpetual victims. For example, on the increasing Palestinian rocket fire into Israel and the IDF’s response, BBC headlines were:
Israeli shells kill Palestinian ( 4/9//2006 )
Six die in new Israeli air strike (4/8/2006)
Israeli missile kills two in Gaza (4/8/2006)
Six killed in Israeli air strike (4/8/2006)
Israel launches air raids on Gaza ( 4/7/2006)
Israeli missiles hit PA compound ( 4/4/2006)
Skimming these headlines, one would never know that this past week, Palestinian terrorists fired over 40 Kassam rockets from Gaza into the Negev or that since Israel withdrew from Gaza last summer, over 440 rockets were launched from PA-controlled Gaza towards western Negev communities.
Similarly, an article by Alan Johnston entitled “Jailed MPs a symbol for Palestinians ” seems more like a Palestinian press release than news analysis. It paints a sympathetic portrait of jailed Palestinians and suggests that while some may have been jailed for planning suicide bombings, Israel often uses petty excuses to detain Palestinians in order to “suppress resistance” to occupation. In other words, Johnston echoes the Palestinian propaganda line. Nowhere in the article is there any description of the heinous massacres committed by the jailed terrorists.
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