The BBC Continues To Lie About History And Censor Calls For Ethnic Cleansing
>> TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2011
Apologies for the lengthy title, but there are two issues here which need to be covered, and I'm combining them into one post. First, the BBC's continued attempts to lie and rewrite history.
Q&A: Palestinian statehood bid at the UN
Most people here will know exactly what's coming, and I know this has been covered here many times before, but it's even more important to call the BBC out on it now because of the looming UN fight over creating a State of Palestine. For the benefit of those who don't know the BBC's bias about the "West Bank", here's the map they use to explain history to the public:
Notice on the left, the BBC is claiming that there was such a thing as the West Bank (i.e. Palestinian) Territory before the 1967 war. They've just erased a chunk of Jordan from history. As we all know, that was part of Jordan at the time, a country at war with Israel. Why else would Israel have invaded? This map indoctrinates the public with PLO propaganda, that Israel invaded sovereign Palestinian territory. Your license fee is being used to promote false history and anti-Israel propaganda.
Reality, on the other hand, is not Israeli propaganda. This map of Jordan -from a non-partisan source - and environs showing the borders during part of the 1967 war in question is fact, not fiction:
Notice the clear border lines of Jordan encompass the area about which the BBC is lying. Yes, I am accusing BBC News Online of telling a lie. I don't care what some Beeboids personally believe about nasty old Israel's land grab or the plight of the poor Palestinians or anything else. This is historical fact, and the BBC is lying about it. How can there be an honest Q&A about the topic when one of the answers is a lie? Until they remove that first map and replace it with an honest one, my accusation will stand.
Needless to say, this propaganda demonizes Israel in the minds of the public. Most people are seriously uninformed about the facts of Israel and 1967 and the "Palestinian Territories". When one tries to explain the facts to get past the emotions, one is then accused of spouting Israeli propaganda. This is how the BBC's editorial policy and style guide is blatantly biased, causing them to demonize Israel at every opportunity, although the BBC disputes this.