Lebanon - rant at BBC

(I'm told polite calm letters are best)

More racist spin from the BBC
Glasgow Media Group and BBC “independent enquiry”
findings ignored


To Helen Boaden - Director of BBC News

The BBC is presenting the Lebanese War as being “caused” by Hezbollah’s capture of two Israeli soldiers. I’ve heard many remarks to this effect, the last on World at One today. An Israeli government spokesman was interviewed about the devastating oil slick caused by Israeli attacks on fuel facilities. The Israeli spokesman stated it was the Hezbollah’s responsibility not Israel’s. The BBC reporter apologetically agreed.

I don’t pay my licence fee so the BBC, can act as sanitiser of the crimes against humanity that Israel systematically commits. The BBC’s role is to report on events not to create history to suit its own racist world view. (I do not say this lightly) The BBC is seriously failing its charter and humanity by constantly fogging the issues in the Middle East and presenting myth as fact.

ON WHAT GROUNDS DOES THE BBC BASE ITS CLAIM THAT HELLBOLLAH IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CALCULATED DESTRUCTION OF LEBANON AND SYSTEMATIC MURDER AND MAIMING OF LEBANESE CIVILIANS??

I do not believe that the BBC is attempting to present a fair coverage of the conflict. I attach a sheet with reference to key issues ignored by the BBC news reporters to the eternal shame of all who take their wages from the corporation.

KEY ISSUES

Pilger quotes a BBC program where Maureen Lipman says without serious challenge, that “human life is not cheap to the Israelis, and human life on the other side is quite cheap actually. .”

This is how Nazi’s thought about Jews, Slavs, Gipsies. It can only be this thinking that causes the BBC to propagandise for Israel and make no attempt to put the repeated conflicts in context or to present a balanced view. The people of this country deserve an impartial British Broadcasting Company not a mouth piece for Zionism.

News the BBC (Israel’s dept of spin in GB) did not communicate.

1) Since the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon and the UN decision to place UNIFIL troops in the border area, there has been consistent violation by Israel of the Blue Line. IDF patrol tracks cross the withdrawal line persistently and the Lebanese government stated the deployment of UNIFIL and Lebanese troops could only happen once the Israeli violations ceased.

The most significant source of tension is the constant overflying of Lebanese air space by Israeli military aircraft. These flights occur on a daily bases penetrating deep into Lebanese airspace terrorising the civilian population by low flying and constantly breaking the sound barrier. The Secretary General and a number of interested governments have repeatedly requested Israel to respect the Blue Line. There have been clashes with Hezbollah and rockets have been fired into Israel on occasions.

2) IDF have constantly attacked Gaza killing and kidnapping Palestinians. A whole family was killed on the beach just weeks ago. Thousands of men, women and children are held in Israeli jails, many without charge or trial. These are largely kidnapped civilians from Gaza, West Bank and from Lebanon (during the 18 year Israeli occupation)

3) In reporting the war the issue of excessive force has been virtually ignored by the BBC. READ: Peter Bouckaert’s “For Israel, Innocent Civilians Are Fair Game” International Herald Tribune 3.8.06. READ: Robert Fisk, John Pilger or the hundreds of Lebanese blogs from the victims of these crimes. SEE: the pictures of phosphorus burnt children, of wives, fathers, children weeping for their loved ones. This was for two captured soldiers?

4) Olmert and Shin Bet vetoed an agreement to release the soldier captured by Hamas. This agreement by leading figures in Israel had the potential to curtail escalation i.e. the Lebanese invasion. Involved were Rabbis Meantime Froman and David Bigman plus Yitzhak Frankenthal, Palestinian cabinet minister Khaled Abu Arafa plus Hamas and PLO representatives. Reported by Omega Institute. Was this ever covered by the BBC?

5) This agreement was based on a prisoner exchange deal. Israel could have exchanged some of the incarcerated Arabs for their soldier held by Hamas as they could have dealt with Hezbollah’s request for a prisoner exchange. Was the failure to exchange prisoners “the cause” of the war ?

6) So prisoner exchanges were possibly in both stand-off’s but Israel and USA choose the military route. Seymour Hersh has reported that Pentagon staff pre-planned the targeting for the Israeli attacks “earlier this summer” and were intent on an invasion this year as preparation for an assault on Iran and Syria.

These are but 6 points in a long litany of Israeli aggression and crimes against humanity. According to Zionists, race is the issue. Israel is an apartheid state. Discrimination on the bases of race is written into their law but not GB law. So why is the BBC alined to Israeli law , not British or international law ?