The BBC and the Palestinians

THE IMAGE TRAVELLED the globe. It was of a father cradling his dead 11-month-old baby in his arms – killed by an Israeli fighter pilot. The victim’s father was an Arabic journalist who worked for the BBC; and the BBC lost no time in using the story, along with most of the worlds media. But the BBC had a particular interest, not only because of its relationship with the child’s father.

The BBC does not disguise its sympathy for the Palestinians, and its dislike for the Zionist state. When the story broke it became manner from heaven for the Palestinian side of the propaganda war; and the BBC obliged, as did other liberal bodies such as the Guardian, the Washington Post, and New York Times - the Israeli’s had shot themselves in the foot and they were going to be made to pay.

The story was never checked, simply because when it comes to normal journalistic practice, the Palestinians are trusted by the BBC because they perceive, ‘right to be on their side’. It would never occur to a BBC journalist on the ground in Gaza (they do actually have a Gaza correspondent – one was kidnapped not so long ago) to question the veracity of any claim made by Hamas. The story of Israeli brutality was the kind of pro-Palestinian propaganda that the BBC will always accept at face value. Selective impartiality is the BBC’s motto when it comes to the Palestinian cause.

NOW THE UN’S High Commissioner for Human Rights has released a report which concludes that  little Omar Jihad al-Mishrawi was not killed by the Israelis, but by a Palestinian Rocket that landed short of its target. A not uncommon occurrence, and one which the BBC’s ‘Gaza correspondent’ should have made enquiries into.

The BBC  have yet to issue  their mea culpa, and I doubt if they will. For Israel has become the new white South Africa among the liberalarte – even to the point of calling Israel an apartheid state. They have their claws well and truly into the Jewish state and the liberal media will tear up the rule book in order to see a Palestinian state come into being, even at the expense of a Jewish one.

Such ignoble practices will one day come back to haunt the liberal hegemony throughout the media in the West. But what I resent, as someone who supports Israel, is having to pay my licence tax to an organisation whose liberal sympathies I abhor. Either the BBC shows the same impartiality they claim to show throughout their news coverage, and apply the same journalistic standard toward Israel, or I and millions like myself should not be made to cough up?

The words ‘state broadcaster’ is an oxymoron when it seeks any kind of survival outside of a totalitarian state. The BBC was an anomaly created at a time when  George Orwell used the dreaded Room 101 (a real room at the BBC) in his dystopian novel 1984. The fact that he could draw upon his personal experience as an employee of a state broadcaster and create a totalitarian vision from the bureaucratic apparatus he worked under, speaks volumes about the modern BBC.

            

            The body of Omar Jihad al-Mishrawi  has been exploited by the Western media driven liberalarte to promote their own political agenda. It is quite disgraceful when you think about it. Even the child’s poor father was led to believe that the Israeli’s were to be held responsible. In being a BBC journalist, such a belief may have found easy acceptance; but this is the kind of anti-journalism that journalists serving the Palestinian cause in Gaza are required to participate in.

AS FAR AS ISRAEL and the BBC are concerned, Israel knows where they stand. The BBC cannot ever be trusted for any kind of impartiality when it comes to Israel. Israel, let us remember, is a democratic state; one of just a few in the Middle East: and the others have yet to prove themselves viable after the Arab Spring.

           

           I have no trust in what the BBC reports from Gaza, the West Bank, and Israel. I turn to Sky News for balanced reporting. Yet even this agency never challenged the events surrounding little Omar Jihad al-Mishrawi’s death. They, like the BBC, took it all at face value. But I do not believe that Sky News did this because of any anti-Israeli sympathy, but simply because they followed the media trail.

            

          A child of 11 months died, and when you think of it the child was at the start of its life; a life which may have brought some kind of reward to the human race had it been completed. Which is why it saddens me to think of abortion - an equal travesty. Little Omar Jihad al-Mishrawi had his life before him…yet he was struck down. If he had been truly killed by an Israeli fighter pilot, I would have extended the same sympathy to his poor father, that I now do.

            

          Israel has a population of nearly eight million people, a population far out-numbered by those who surround them in the Arab world. Yet Israel is seen as the villain of the peace by Western liberalism. The BBC helps to promote such villainy with their unapologetic support for the Palestinians.

           

         In supporting the Palestinian cause, the BBC, which collects over £3 billion per year in taxation from every citizen in the UK, irrespective of their political preferences, should at least pretend objectivity in their reporting of the Middle East.

        

         For instance, does the BBC, so enamoured as they are with representing  minorities, include the Jewish state in their objective reporting? I think not. The BBC, as an institution, is liberal to the core, as any employee that lives and works among the BBC knows. The Palestinians are the liberal flavour of the month and the BBC are determined to promote them as they did the ANC in South Africa.

            

        The BBC has to apologise for its part in interpreting the events surrounding the death of  little Omar Jihad al-Mishrawi. They used his death as a weapon against the state of Israel. The BBC can no longer be trusted as far as its reporting of the Palestinian cause is concerned. They are biased toward Palestinian goals. Nothing the BBC says about Israel can be accepted at face value. We must look elsewhere to find an objective analysis, and the internet is, thankfully, full of such analysis.