"BBC exemplifies anti-Palestinian bias" by Linda S. Heard (1-28-09 Online Journal)

[bobthedrummer]

"By refusing to air an appeal for Gaza relief by the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC), that umbrella's numerous charities, including the British Red Cross, Save the Children and Oxfam, the British national broadcaster has displayed its lily-livered editorial colours."

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4290.shtml

[aquart]

1. Why? Is it doing stories about the "collaborator" round ups?

Anyone know how many were taken by Hamas and Fatah? Five? Ten? 300?

[bobthedrummer]

3. As you know, aquart, I am in the school that understands the MSM is mind-control. The Palestinians

need relief from the insanity that some leaders in Israel pulled before their election, and why is that corrupt shit Olmert still in office???

[bemildred]

4. You know I don't get that either.

He is just Sharon's side-kick, like Pancho to Sharon's Cisco Kid, and he is clearly an incompetent and self-serving weasel, but it's like he was elected dictator and nobody dares challenge him. It's like they are all on psychotropic drugs or something. His polls are in the low one figures. What the hell kind of a democracy is it when you can't get rid of a very unpopular failure within a reasonable time of when he has failed?

[happyslug]

5. You sure he is not like Cisco in the original story about Cisco?

By the end of the Story you wanted him dead, and there was no Pancho:

http://www.classicreader.com/book/645/1/

Has one of the best description of a person character:

The Cisco Kid had killed six men in more or less fair scrimmages, had murdered twice as many (mostly Mexicans), and had winged a larger number whom he modestly forbore to count. Therefore a woman loved him.

The Kid was twenty-five, looked twenty; and a careful insurance company would have estimated the probable time of his demise at, say, twenty-six. His habitat was anywhere between the Frio and the Rio Grande. He killed for the love of it--because he was quick-tempered-- to avoid arrest--for his own amusement--any reason that came to his mind would suffice.

Hay, that sounds like the present leadership if Israel when it comes to the Palestinians.

[bemildred]

7. Well, OK, how about Gabby Hayes?

Tonto just doesn't seem right somehow. Actually now that I think about it, Chester from Gunsmoke would work great:

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk.nyud.net:8090/media/images/41383000/jpg/_41383306_gunsmoke_ap.jpg

[bemildred]

2. It exemplifies gutlessness is what it exemplifies.

The absence of courage and ethics.

[KoKo]

6. "100 to 1"

What if Israel Were in Your Neighborhood?

by Russell Mokhiber

I left Washington last week when many friends and family members were coming here to celebrate the inauguration of our first African-American President.

My eleven year-old son asked me -- why turn your back on Obama?

I threw back at him Martin Luther King -- It's not the color of his skin, it's the content of his character.

What does it say about Obama's character that he sides with the Israeli slaughter machine against those that it slaughters?

What does it say about the character of his "progressive" supporters, who cry for joy at his inauguration, but say not a peep about the slaughter machine and its victims?

(See, for example, former AIPAC staffer and "progressive Democratic" columnist David Sirota, who broke down and cried watching Obama's inauguration, but has not written one word about the slaughter in Gaza.)

Earlier this month, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) took out full page ads in major newspapers around the country.

The ad was titled: What if Hamas Was in Your Neighborhood? (link to ad at: http://www.adl.org/Israel/posters/HamasAd_Phoenix.pdf)

The ad showed missiles reigning down on Phoenix, or Boston, or Washington, D.C.

"Imagine if Hamas terrorists were targeting you and your family," the ad read. "No country would allow such danger on its border, and neither will Israel. That's why Israel is fighting back."

In response, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) last week put up an ad on its web site titled -- What If Israel Were in Your Neighborhood? (Link to ad at: http://www.adc.org/PDF/gazaposter.pdf)

Answer?

Death and Destruction with American built F-16 fighter jets and Apache helicopters.

Yes, when Hamas launches rockets that kill innocent civilians, it engages in war crimes.

But Hamas has no Army, no Navy, no Air Force.

The slaughter machine has a modern military with hundreds of nuclear weapons and U.S. supplied F-16s and Apache helicopters.

So, there is a balance of terror.

And the Palestinian bodies tip the scales in the slaughter machine's favor.

Since the first rocket was launched into Israel in 2002 up until the December 17, 2008 invasion of Gaza, the Israel body count was maybe two dozen.

The Palestinian body count was 2,700.

That would be about 100 to one.

Since the invasion, the Israeli body count is 14.

The Palestinian body count was more than 1,400.

That would be about 100 to one.

As the ADC ad puts it: "Israel's assault on the Gaza Strip cannot be justified by self-defense. An armed attack that is not justified by self-defense is a war of aggression. Under the Nuremberg Principles affirmed by U.N. Resolution 95, aggression is a crime against peace. Prosecute Israel for War Crimes."

So, here's one concrete thing you can do to counter the slaughter machine's propaganda.

If you are interested in placing the "What If Israel Were in Your Neighborhood?" ad in your local newspaper, contact ADC's Nabil Mohammad at [email protected].

Turn the tide of terror.
Russell Mokhiber is editor of the Washington, D.C.-based Corporate Crime Reporter.