Here are some choice BBC News propaganda nuggets from 2006
Posted by Morrissey
on January 7, 2020, 4:03 am, in reply to "Re: Stupid oped in the Guardian"
on January 7, 2020, 4:03 am, in reply to "Re: Stupid oped in the Guardian"| BBC News, Aug. 5th, 2006 Israeli bombs kill twenty farmworkers loading fruit on the Syria-Lebanon border. JONATHAN: Incidents like that are very embarrassing for the Israelis. They PRIDE themselves on trying to hit the right targets, so--- STUDIO: That's right, Jonathan. JONATHAN; Israelis are PROUD of their Defence Force. Aug. 8th, 2006 "It's the civilians in both countries who are bearing the brunt of the actions." --- BBC "From Our Own Correspondent" in Beirut. Today Hezbollah rockets killed ten people in Israel--ALL OF THEM SOLDIERS. BBC comments: "This was the single greatest loss of life in one day during the present conflict." Aug. 16, 2006 6 a.m. "As for Syria, it's openly declared its support for Hezbollah and is widely believed to have supplied it with weapons. And so far it has not paid a price." --- BBC World Service radio News report. 10.30 p.m. BBC reports that the Syrian president was "crowing that Israel was defeated by Hezbollah." 1 a.m. Owen Bennet Jones, BBC: More than 200 people have been killed in Gaza---"many of them civilians." Hamas has fired rockets from Gaza; Israel has "launched massive airstrikes in retaliation." Bennett Jones continually refers to "the kidnapped Israeli soldier"; never once mentions one of the thousands of kidnapped Palestinian civilians. Sept. 1, 2006 3 a.m. BBC World Service News: "....to repair the damage caused by the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah." Beit Jubail has been 95 percent destroyed by Israel. NICHOLAS WITCHELL FROM BEIRUT: Does anybody here blame Hezbollah for provoking Israel to do this? HEZBOLLAH OFFICIAL: No, I have not heard that yet. There are more than 100,000 unexploded cluster bombs in South Lebanon. Sept. 23, 2006 BBC television news: Hezbollah rally in Beirut. BBC Jerusalem correspondent WYRE DAVIES: "There were many civilian casualties on both sides." |
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