Guest shiloh357 Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 BBC Pushes Arab Narrative of Six-Day War www.camera.org For the 40th Anniversary of the Six-Day War, BBC Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen wrote an online feature entitled "How 1967 defined the Middle East." The opening paragraph of the piece asserts that "[t]o understand what is happening between Israel and the Palestinians now, you have to understand what happened in the Middle East war of 1967." But the BBC's version of "what happened in the Middle East war of 1967" is marred by omissions, exaggerations, and the outright anti-Israel bias for which the network is known. The piece, in fact, reads more like a list of pro-Arab talking points than an objective overview of the war and its consequences. In the second paragraph, Israel "smashes" the armies of Egypt, Jordan and Syria; but there isn't the slightest mention of the Arab aggression that caused this result. Neither in this paragraph nor in the rest of the piece do readers learn that Egypt expelled United Nations troops from the Sinai Peninsula and massed its own forces near the Israeli border, with plans and intent to attack; or that Egypt blocked the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping, a casus belli (an act that justifies war) under international law. Nor are readers informed that Israel did not "smash" Jordan and Syria until those countries first attacked Israel. The third paragraph states: "The war made 250,000 more Palestinians Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonard Posted June 13, 2007 Group: Royal Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 115 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 8,281 Content Per Day: 1.12 Reputation: 249 Days Won: 3 Joined: 03/03/2004 Status: Offline Birthday: 10/30/1955 Share Posted June 13, 2007 The BBC has been anti-semitic for many years now......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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