Nakba Day
>> SUNDAY, MAY 15, 2011
Sunday, 15 May 2011
11:53 am. Driver in Tel Aviv Truck Rampage shouted “Death to Jews” Israeli forces 'fire on Palestinians' near Gaza border * One of these stories is not reported by your BBC. A large red banner proclaiming ‘Breaking News’ adorns the BBC Middle East page. This advertises the latter story, whereas at the time of writing there is nothing at all about the former. So. The BBC was interested in Israel’s reaction to a well-publicised, premeditated, deliberately orchestrated, provocative demonstration by anti-Israel activists when it first erupted near the Gaza border, whereas a terrorist mowing people down in his truck in Tel Aviv whilst shouting Allahu Akbar was not deemed newsworthy, even at the time when the original violence was limited to the border with Gaza, and before it had spread to all Israel’s borders with surrounding enemy states. Since I began writing about this at 11:53 am, the website has been updated several times, the violence has multiplied, the BBC has become even more excited, and the presentation has become even more one-sided. For more details please see five invaluable comments by the esteemed Pounce, on the Open Thread. The BBC speculates that the recent uprisings in Arab countries have emboldened the Palestinians, thus equating the Palestinians with the BBC’s pet freedom fighting seekers of democracy in the Arab World, and Israel with the totalitarian oppressive regimes who clamp down ruthlessly upon them. The exact opposite of the truth.
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Meanwhile on Sky News the trouble in Israel is reported in a far more balanced manner, the reporter, can’t remember his name, suggests that the hand of Iran and Syria is responsible for the trouble on Israel’s Northern border, trying to take the spotlight off Syria's own internal problems. This makes sense.
The tally of Muslim Killing Muslim is still far greater than Israel America and NATO killing Muslims but we wont know this if we listen to the BBC.
Yet another reason not to be intimidated by Arab demands.
Nakba day commemorating 700,000 Palestinians fleeing the newly formed state of Israel at the behest of neighboring Arab countries who thought they would drive the Jews into the sea.
What about the similar number of Jews who were forcibly driven out of Arab countries at the same time.?
Esteemed ? I think not. Just your average joe won’t stand for falsehoods been promulgated at my expense. Anyway Sue back to your post.
As I mentioned before the bBC is unable to join the dots on how thousands of people have turned up on the borders of Israel in which to protest its existence. That myopia becomes even more relevant when you realise that the hotbed of Syrian resistance against Damascus is in the south of the country in exactly the area where Syrians broke through the Israeli border.
When we look at how next door in Lebanon Syria’s brother in arms (Hezb-allah) brought in thousands of people by coach to do likewise and when they were stopped from going any further by the Lebanese army, they physically attacked them and then proceeded to attack Israeli troops.
Then there’s Gaza which did likewise and while the bBC is more than happy to promote that Hamas was powerless to stop people from marching to the Israeli/Gazan border. They don’t report that actually they succeeded in doing likewise with another protest on the Egyptian border and on another stretch of that same border Hamas troops are seen side by side with the protesters.
The protest in Jerusalem to be honest had more to do with a funeral of a boy shot dead protesting yesterday than been linked to the bigger events above.
Which brings me to the last border. The Israeli/Jordanian one. Yes there was a protest but this one was a very solemn affair with people coming and going very quietly. Now I wonder if that was because Jordan doesn’t subscribe to the Iranian/Syrian/Hezb-all/Hamas pact and thus has no need to lay a smokescreen in which to excuse the killing fields of Syria.
This is very, very odd.
Going into 'Google News' and typing in 'Tel Aviv' shows that there was a BBC Online article about the former story, Israel: One killed as lorry ploughs down Tel Aviv road (published 6 hours ago, says Google), and the timemark on the article says 11.29 and shows it being in the website's 'Middle East' section. The article has not been updated since and, naturally, there's no mention of 'Allahu Akbar'.
Clicking on the BBC website confirms that this article is not now on the 'Middle East' page and that there's no link to the story from the main Nakba stories there or elsewhere on the BBC site. I myself looked on the 'Middle East' section sometime around one o'clock and am very sure it wasn't on there then either (as I was looking through all the stories carefully). You (Sue) did your screenshot of the page at 11.53 (just a few minutes after the article's publication) and would have noticed if the Tel Aviv story (first word 'Israel') if it was on that page. Not a Sheep has been watching the story too and could see nothing on the BBC website about it and Pounce (Open Thread) has also been monitoring the BBC website very carefully this afternoon, again noting the absence of an article about the story.
So, however much this might sound like a conspiracy theory, it seems likely that this story wasn't up on the BBC's 'Middle East' section for more than a few minutes at the most, maybe even just for a few short seconds, before being dropped completely from the page and buried away where nobody (except those who access Google and type in 'Tel Aviv') would ever see it. The BBC (and their apologists) can now say, if challenged, that they did publish an article about it - but there's publishing an article where people can read and there's publishing an article where people can't read it - and they surely did the latter and surely did it deliberately.
If this is what really happened (and what other explanation is there?), how on earth could the BBC justify such shoddy behaviour?
Or am I missing something?
I watched this developing but couldn't post about it here at the time.
The original article was:
Israel: One killed as lorry ploughs down Tel Aviv road
The story was on the news ticker and also among the top stories on the front page, until the Nakba stories broke, at which point it disappeared completely - not linked from anywhere and invisible on the main Mid-East news section.
This detail caught my eye too:
Security has been tightened across Israel for the Nakba, especially in Jerusalem and areas of the country where a large percentage of the population are Arab Israelis.
Palestinians living in Israel are known as Arab Israelis.
What?!
Arab Israelis are just that - Arab citizens of Israel - they are not "Palestinians"!
The BBC faithfully following the Hamas line that all of Israel is "Palestine".
Thanks for explaining what happened Biodegradable.
I see the BBC main Nakba article now carries the truck attack story - briefly, in its final paragraph, with as little detail as possible:
Meanwhile in Tel Aviv, Israeli police are investigating whether an Arab-Israeli lorry driver deliberately ploughed into pedestrians, killing one Israeli man.
Still no link from anywhere to the original terrorist truck incident.
I've complained already, not that it will do much use.
"BBC News, both on the Internet and the News 24 channel, has committed yet another act of shoddy, biased reporting. Whilst giving weight to the story of Palestinian protesters being shot at (mostly by rubber bullets, which you failed to mention) you tactfully, and unsurprisingly, ignored the story of a rampant bus driving around Tel Aviv which has killed one and injured many more, and is believed to be a terrorist incident. (http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=220589)The driver of the bus shouted "death to Jews" when he committed his crime, and yet this doesn't warrant a mere paragraph from the BBC?
The BBC is guilty of committing a lie of omission in giving a one-sided view of today's events. Even the content which was published reeked of bias and inaccuracy. As I've mentioned, the Israeli Army have been primarily using rubber bullets, which you failed to report, and only did so in response to the initiation of force by stone-throwing Palestinians.
Your reporter Jon Donnison on News 24 and the BBC website only gave the view of the Palestinian protesters and not that of anyone else regarding the Golan Heights. The reporter stated that the Palestinians "regard this as home" and no more was said on the issue. I wish to ask: do the BBC not find it important to provide legal fact in response to such claims - i.e. that Syria invaded Israel in 1967 and Israel defensively took hold of the Golan Heights? Or is it only Palestinian opinion that counts?
Furthermore, the reporter made a comparison between Palestinian protesters and other Arabs protesting against their despotic regimes across the Middle East, which amounts to a vague attempt to compare Israel with the corrupt and brutal dictatorships which are currently killing their people with no remorse. Accuracy? No. One-sided reporting? Absolutely.
In conclusion, the failure to mention the suspected terrorist incident in Tel Aviv, the omission of facts regarding who initiated the force in these protests, the omission of the fact that Israelis fire rubber bullets in the majority of cases, and the comparison of Israel to dictatorships all amount to shoddy reporting and, yet again, bias."
Interesting picture on yahoo news taken of the Syrian mob while they crashed into isreal.
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Mideast-Conflict/ss/events/wl/080601mideas
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