The latest settlement announcements regarding Gilo have already been widely condemned as a provocation by people with no knowledge of history or geography.
But there’s more to this than meets the eye.
“Gilo is a neighbourhood of Jerusalem,which is Israel’s eternal capital. Under many internationally-agreed final-status agreements, including the Clinton Parameters, the neighbourhood would remain a part of Israel.”
The BBC is
ramping up its Israel-bashing again.
Anything I/P related is being twisted and spun furiously.
It’s as though after the unilateral bid the BBC wants to inflame the situation as much as possible, and maybe they’re hoping articles which use words such as ‘anger’, ‘provocation’ and ‘undermining trust’ will incite Israel-haters into such a frenzy that they’ll pressurise the EU or Nato to intervene ‘to protect civilians’.
Best friends Catherine Ashton and Hillary Clinton will probably issue some more pearls of wisdom for the BBC to quote in tomorrow’s episode of the BBC’s anti Israel campaign.
They’ve completely rewritten the ‘obstacle to peace’ scenario.
You never hear anything about Palestinian ‘obstacles’, such as their openly expressed aspiration - not to any future peaceful coexistence - but to a future without Israel altogether,
symbolised in their logo map, which blatantly depicts the whole of Israel as their future Palestinian state.
If the Israelis took a leaf out of Abbas’s book and produced strings of preconditions before negotiations can resume, the press might respect them more.
Obviously being reasonable doesn’t do the trick, and they couldn’t spin against Israel much more than they already do.
The Israelis should demand that to tempt them back to the table the Palestinians must release Gilad Shalit, recognise Israel, renounce violence, hold another election, stop dreaming about the ROR, stop brainwashing their children, rein in stone-throwing adolescents, stop smuggling weapons into Gaza, stop sending rockets into Israel, and stop rewarding families of martyrs and suicide bombers. Just for a start.
Then, perhaps, recognition of gay rights in Gaza and a chorus or two of All You Need is Love at the next UN convention.
This tweet is brought to my attention.
It's by Labour wunderkid Rory James Weal and begs the question does he know something we don't?
I'm back and wanting to hear about instances of BBC bias you have spotted. Form an orderly queue...!
I listened to the BBC "What the Papers say" on Today this morning.
The Miliband speech was given due prominence but for some reason The Guardian coverage was omitted. I wonder why?
Meanwhile, Red Ed turned up in the prime 8.10am slot on Today and despite the softballs lobbed his way by Naughtie, it was a car crash.
Miliband will set up a body to determine which are "good" and "bad" business models, for example, a sort of star chamber to determine the wickedness of the Corporation.
This is a real tough one for the BBC - they so want Labour back but in Miliband we have a Michael Foot in a smarter suit - and he comes across REALLY badly.
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