I suppose many have been following the Gaza campaign on our TV and radio Channels. By and large, there is the usual amount of anti-Israeli bias - especially from the BBC. The latter insists on misquoting - or not fully quoting, or quoting out of context - various eminent figures, thus painting Israel in a worse light than they intended. For example, President Sarkozy of France called the Hamas actions "irresponsible and unpardonable" as broadcast by French TV and radio - this was not relayed by the BBC. Today mortars were fired from UN schools where Gazans were hiding; this is of course a War Crime on the part of Hamas. The Israeli response was, unfortunately, lethal - but fully justified under international law. However, the use of human shields by Hamas is proving a difficult strategy to overcome. It is a win-win strategy for Hamas - as one of their leaders boasted to a German Radio station:
"When we store our weapons under a school, if they don't find them - we win.
And if they find them and bomb them - we also win."
And the Gazans suffer from it, as this report from April 2008 noted
“Residents of a Gaza town complained this week after Hamas forces constructing a
weapons storage facility under the local schoolhouse severed a water main.”
Last year the IDF succeeded in video-ing mortars being fired from one of the UN Gaza schools bombed this year. So no surprises there.
One of the incredible sights in our media today was the Mad Doctor Madz Gilbert ranting like a lunatic in the Shifa Hospital. It turn out that he really is a crazed Hamas supporter -thanks to Melanie Philips for researching this.
How can the media portray such a lunatic as a humanitarian medic?
Very easy - if you are the BBC.
"When we store our weapons under a school, if they don't find them - we win.
And if they find them and bomb them - we also win."
And the Gazans suffer from it, as this report from April 2008 noted
“Residents of a Gaza town complained this week after Hamas forces constructing a
weapons storage facility under the local schoolhouse severed a water main.”
Last year the IDF succeeded in video-ing mortars being fired from one of the UN Gaza schools bombed this year. So no surprises there.
One of the incredible sights in our media today was the Mad Doctor Madz Gilbert ranting like a lunatic in the Shifa Hospital. It turn out that he really is a crazed Hamas supporter -thanks to Melanie Philips for researching this.
How can the media portray such a lunatic as a humanitarian medic?
Very easy - if you are the BBC.
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