Biased Broadcasting Corporation

[ratewhore]

The weapons that Hamas used were the very weapons supplied by the UK who also trained the Hamas security forces five years ago.

Still waiting for the link to corroborate this.

Anyone..?

[lilelvis2000]

...That was the reply of a Nazi. I suppose that the Jews fighting for their lives in the Warsaw ghetto could have been dismissed as militants.

The Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni asserts that her government will have no dealings with Hamas, because they are terrorists. Tzipi Livni's father was Eitan Livni, chief operations officer of the terrorist Irgun Zvai Leumi, who organized the blowing-up of the King David hotel in Jerusalem, in which 91 victims were killed, including four Jews.

Israel was born out of Jewish terrorism. Jewish terrorists hanged two British sergeants and booby-trapped their corpses. Irgun, together with the terrorist Stern gang, massacred 254 Palestinians in 1948 in the village of Deir Yassin. Today, the present Israeli government indicates that they would be willing, in circumstances acceptable to them,...

...
It is time for peace, but real peace, not the solution by conquest which is the Israelis' real goal but which it is impossible for them to achieve. They are not simply war criminals; they are fools.

I've always wondered why Livni spoke like a terrorist. like a Kach member. Using language like "the humanitarian situation is as it should be..."

I also often wondered how many of the Israeli political parties were formed by terrorist groups. And how many of these parties see Jabotinsky as their "spiritual" leader - cause frankly I think most of them are Atheists anyway.

[ace00]

....... They could have negotiated with Fatah's previous leader, Yasser Arafat, who was a friend of mine. Instead, they besieged him in a bunker in Ramallah, where I visited him.

Well he must have sneaked out to get to the White House lawn in 1993 and shake Yitzhak Rabin's hand.

[AZZIK]

Letter from David Soul to the BBC

Regarding the BBC's unwillingness to support the appeal for relief to the people of Gaza:
It is unconscionable that the BBC refuses to make a distinction between "unbiased reporting" (which apparently means, bending to lobbying pressure) and supporting the humanitarian action that is so urgently needed in GAZA ... whoever may be responsible for causing the destruction.

Over 3,000 innocents in GAZA caught in the cross- fire are dead or wounded ... families have been decimated ... whole communities have been leveled ... infrastructure has been destroyed ... and you refuse to join humanitarian efforts to bring aid to them.

What is the matter with you people? Are you blind or just spineless?

Innocent people urgently need supplies of food, water, medicines, shelter ... yes, and limbs too ... as a result of the annihilation of GAZA. Meanwhile, the BBC puts its corporate tail between its legs and hides behind the thinly-veiled excuse of "impartiality".

What's the difference between supporting an appeal for aid to the victims of a Tsunami and supporting a relief effort to the innocent victims of war ... any war?
As an independent broadcaster, the public mandate of the BBC should be to place it squarely on the side of HUMANITY. That being so, the BBC should be at the forefront of reporting the whole story even as it supports the greater cause of HUMANITY.

Shame on you! You have lost my respect and until the BBC can show me true "impartiality", the BBC can have my TV license back.

David Soul - Actor

Well said mate!

[ratewhore]

Still waiting for the link to corroborate this.

Anyone..?

No evidence anywhere?

Anywhere?

Dust?

Anyone?

[Doggy Styles]

"The weapons that Hamas used were the very weapons supplied by the UK who also trained the Hamas security forces five years ago."

No evidence anywhere?

Anywhere?

Dust?

Anyone?

Does this refer to the home-made rockets? I don't think we supplied them.

[dang65]

Shame on you! You have lost my respect and until the BBC can show me true "impartiality", the BBC can have my TV license back.

David Soul - Actor

Well said mate!

Loads of countries have TV Licences, including ones with absolutely abysmal broadcast output. At least we get the BBC in exchange for our fee. If they didn't get their cut any more then we'd still have to pay, but we'd have to watch rubbish as well.

That letter from David Soul is lame. Why don't all these moaners forget about the BBC and pile all their efforts into raising funds for Gaza? Why haven't all the newspapers turned over any space they've wasted on this non-story to advertising for the campaign?

The BBC is, and has been since at least the Second World War, a source of neutral news for people all over the world, not just in Britain. They do show one-sided programmes from time to time, but then they'll show a different programme another time with the opposite bias. Either way they get moaned about. I'm not sure which news organisation people consider to be less biased???

As for British forces training Hamas... I've not read specifically of that, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if they had. We train all sorts of people all the time. In Andy McNab's latest book he talks about when the British trained the Mujahadeen to use Stinger missiles. Apparently the missiles were too noisy to be able to do the training on the spot, so they smuggled groups of Afghans out and flew them to Scotland, trained them there, then flew them back. There are loads of Stingers still unaccounted for, though I did read somewhere else that they tend to be a status symbol and usually don't get fired because then the owner instantly loses the cred of owning a missile,

[Doggy Styles]

There are loads of Stingers still unaccounted for, though I did read somewhere else that they tend to be a status symbol and usually don't get fired because then the owner instantly loses the cred of owning a missile,

Like owning an expensive bottle of vintage wine.

[Drewster]

.........I did read somewhere else that they tend to be a status symbol and usually don't get fired because then the owner instantly loses the cred of owning a missile,

S'right..... Look at all the News/Documenary Items on "Freedom Fighters" (or whatever).

Loads of Guys posing and looking hard with RPGs over thier shoulder...... beaten up, paint scratched and flaked..... it MUST have been bounced and bashed about a fair bit..... and obviously not been fired (or they wouldn't still have it).

Holding a stick obviously doesn't have the same qudos.....

although to be fair these are often the same guys who hack "opponents" (aka innocent women and children) to bits with a Machete

[ratewhore]

As for British forces training Hamas... I've not read specifically of that, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if they had. We train all sorts of people all the time. In Andy McNab's latest book he talks about when the British trained the Mujahadeen to use Stinger missiles. Apparently the missiles were too noisy to be able to do the training on the spot, so they smuggled groups of Afghans out and flew them to Scotland, trained them there, then flew them back.

But they were fighting the commies. Your enemies enemy and all that. I personally cannot see that being the case with Hamas but I'd be more than happy to be proved wrong.

After all, people wouldn't post made up stuff as fact on CUK would they?