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Israel – not the BBC – is the villain of Gaza
If the protesting luvvies really wanted to make a point about Gaza, they’d attack Israel and the British government
Whether Mark Thompson's decision not to air the Disasters Emergency Committee's appeal for Gaza on the BBC was the right one, the response of a whole phalanx of luvvies and legs (the term used by TV techies for those in front of the cameras) has been laughable.
Oh! How they're appalled at the pusillanimous BBC in the face of this 'humanitarian' disaster - yet few of them spoke out loud and clear against the actions of Israel that caused it, nor, by extension, against the supine British government whose consistent failure to roundly condemn Israel is far more important than a charity advert.
Why don’t they do something that might cause a stir, like refusing to pay tax?
I wonder if the luvvies, the legs and the old Trots for whom Stop the War is a front, will make common cause with Charles Moore and his tweedy Telegraph clique who so object to the salary paid Jonathan Ross? All these disparate elements have committed themselves to a dreadful act of civil disobedience, namely, refusing to pay their licence fee.
Of course, none of them would have the balls to do anything that could really end them up in choky - like refusing to pay their taxes. Taxes which are used, among other things, to subsidise the British arms manufacturers, who made the night vision equipment that was sold to the Israeli air force so their pilots could bomb the Palestinians.
It strikes me that the Ross/Brand ballyhoo and the Gaza appeal brouhaha are both examples of a nauseating narcissism on the part of the British middle class. The senior citizen offended may have been Andrew Sachs, and the homeless, starving people may be Palestinians, yet it remains, resolutely, all about us.
That's what the BBC has become, not simply a screen, but a mirror that these Volvo-driving Calibans stare at themselves in, then become enraged when all they see reflected there is their own moral weakness and self-centredness.
Victims of war and natural disasters are equally worthy of our beneficence
After all, if anyone really did want to contribute to the Disasters Emergency Committee, on principle (and not merely to assuage the guilt provoked by distressing TV images), he or she could pick up the phone, or log on to the internet and do so. Now that the 'row' has gone on for days, there can hardly be anyone left in the country who isn't aware of the appeal, and what it's for.
The truth is that the victims of war and the victims of natural disasters are equally worthy of our beneficence - nobody, who isn't actually firing a gun at the time, deserves to be killed by shells with a payload of white phosphorus, any more than they deserve to be swept away by a tsunami.
The paradox is that those licence fee evaders who bleat on about 'humanitarian' crises are quite as bad as those who unashamedly believe that might is right - with an added dash of hypocrisy thrown in for good measure. 'Humanitarian' in the context of Gaza is nothing but a fig leaf held over the rampant obscenity of Israel's aggression, and by focusing their attention on the BBC baddies, the protesters are ignoring those really at fault. ·
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There are Israeli misinformation posters here and elsewhere who are continuing their campaign to confuse people about who is responsible. If Israel were as innocent as they claim, there would be no need, the world would see it. To which they answer; the world is anti-Semitic! In other words, Zionists are always right and any criticism is prejudice, even when coming from highly respected Jews such as Gerald Kaufman MP.
Contrary to what the disinformation squad have posted, Hamas held to the ceasefire for six months, Israel tightened its grip on the Gaza concentration camp until the occupants were suffering constantly - without water or power how do you keep your children warm and fed? - and then, when even that didn't work, they started killing Hamas leaders from drones, as well as innocent family members as collateral, and then, and only then, Hamas reacted, and the onslaught, long planned by Israel, commenced. Regev can lie all he likes, but the facts are there to be checked by anyone as I have stated them. Some of us pay attention, and can remember.
Hoping for some new series on the Beeb, Self? Who would seriously expect anything positive from this clapped out, sold out government, suborned to USA foreign policy and thus wedded to Israel.
We are bombarded by the BBC promoting it's fabled commitment to objectivity, impartiality, balance.
It stakes it's right to a license fee partly on that.
Yet its coverage of the Gaza abomination has been blatantly biased as to shred whatever credibility that supposed commitment still had.
Israel had filled the vacuum of information - caused by its ban on journalists entering Gaza - with relentless propaganda that gave any news organisation reporting the conflict little choice but to rely on.
Thus, the BBC coverage was biased by default. If they had been honest, they would have refused to cover it, stating that Israel controlled what information was available to their reporters to such a degree as to make it impossible to be objective, impartial.
As we have seen by their paying Jonathan Ross more than any other media employee, viewing figures trumped all else.
Rather they compromised their reporting than allow rivals to hog the limelight.
As it went, ITV & C4 exhibited more balanced reporting of Gaza than BBC, putting up at least token resistance to the Israeli propaganda onslaught that the BBC willingly embraced.
The BBC's dominance of the mainstream UK media (unlike the USA, there is little alternative to mainstream in the UK) is now a detrimental, reactionary relic that must be removed. UK radio is over-policed to the point of utter banality, where the mildest of swear words sends broadcasters into paroxysms of terror.
Freedom of expression should be recognised as the most important of all freedoms in a civilised democracy.
The BBC TV license fee is an utter affront to that freedom, a tax that stamps one media organisation as the representative of the public voice, when it is the lackey of the government, a grotesque BIg Brother reinforcing the messages of its establishment masters.
As one blogger here says, it's Self who drive the Volvo. How he loved his Volvo badge!
Cock and Bull? Self is now sadly mostly bull(shit).
The latest Israeli attacks on Gaza continue 'selected assasinations' committed since 05, just at a higher intensity.
The Gazans are still locked, starving in a refugee camp/reservation {US}/concetration camp {Boer War} not allowed to return to their homeland by threat of death.
Israel never invaded any country, the Jews are the original natives of Israel and were cruelly expelled from the land by the Romans but never gave up their claim to it. There were always Jews in Israel since that time in varying numbers. The Jews took the moral and legal course, offered by the UN in 1948 to divide what was left of Palestine, afterBritain gave 77% of the area to Jordan in 1922, into a Jewish (mostly Jewish bought land) and an Arab state. The Jews agreed, the Arabs opted out and sent 5 Arab armies to destroy, eliminate and massacre the Jews and steal back the land they sold to them and their property. The Arabs lost and consequently lost their lands. The Arabs who left were mainly those who fought the Jews, listened to Arab states to leave and return after victory and those who wished to run from war. A quarter of the population was not massacred. Gaza was a strip of land under Egyption administration until 1967. In that year the Arab states again broke a 10 year armistace and sent their armies to fight Israel. They made an act of war by blockading the gulf of Akaba in order to disallow Israeli shipping to reach her port of Eilat. They lost that war and Israel captured Gaza and the West Bank. These results were all a consequence of the Arab nations attempt to destroy Israel. Israel left Gaza in 2005 with the hope that the Gazans would try to create something approaching a normal state, but no they elected Hamas. The onus for suffering is placed totally on the shoulders of the Arabs and Hamas.
Will Self accuses protesters against the BBC's gutless subservience to the Israel-excusing Jewish lobby as suffering from nauseating narcissism; glass houses and stones come to mind. Self is ever the narcissist, from his carefully chosen archaisms like ballyhoo and brouhaha, which he thinks make him an interesting writer, to his dismissing of people as luvvies, legs [inside knowledge from Will here, my he's well connected and knowledgeable] and trots - about as dismissive as Caroline Thomson, the BBC's major Ego who dismissed all as 'organised lobby groups'. No one else is allowed to have an opinion about the BBC, which gets its money from forced licence fees - the only country which can jail people for not paying a TV or radio licence.
Mark: You don't miss any opportunity to pop in your lies about Israel and Gaza do you, you must work for the Israeli Ministry of Misinformation for Goyim. Go post on Israeli sites where you belong. Blah blah, human shields, blah blah, Israel regrets, blah blah. You feel the need to trot out this garbage because overwhelmingly the world sees Israel as a murderous aggressor, intent on driving all Palestinians out of their land so Jews can take the last bits. Then they start on the neighbouring countries, so watch out Syria, Jordan and Egypt, who will all doubtless 'deserve' losing bits of their territory. As for your pathetic attempt to link Hamas home made rockets with the German blitz on London: Hamas have killed how many Israelis exactly? The vast majority fall on empty spaces, a very few actually hit buildings, a small percentage of these cause some injury. And the Jews running about screaming at 'an attack by Hamas rockets' are quite clearly rehearsed and doiing it for the camera. Some of us are quite capable of seeing through your pathetic attempts to manipulate, we know what you're us to.
Hamas is the bully!!!
The express aim of Hamas is to eliminate all of Israel and for that matter all Jews.
Hamas was elected by the "innocent" Gazans as their government when they were fully aware and supported these aims.
Hamas made and imports rockets with one purpose- to fire them on Israeli civilians, wich they subseqently did.
Over 8,000 rockets and mortars on a peaceful Israeli town and its surrounds over 8 years.
Most of these rockets were fired into Israel after Israel completely vacated Gaza in 2005.
The battlefield was chosen by Hamas:-
Hamas stored and fired the rockets from civilian areas, homes, mosques and schools.
Hamas trained its soldiers and maintained its army within the built up areas, behind, civilian men women and children.
These areas are the areas which Hamas picked in order to fight.
This was their chosen battlefield.
The Hamas strategy is to fight in and amongst the civilian population so that when civilians are killed during fighting it is a PR victory for Hamas because Israel will be blamed just as Will Self is doing.
Israel loves and protects its children by building shelters and warning devices. Hamas puts its children in mortal danger by using them as human shields.
Imagine if an Asian or African country, invaded Britain, massacred a quarter of its population, then drove half of the population to flee to Ireland, France & Scandinavia so that they escaped further massacre. Imagine if the remaining population was crammed into Cornwall and Wales, and then subject to brutal humiliating occupation.
Imagine if today you are free to work, live and go to the pub - but tomorrow your way of life ends forever, you are forever subjected to daily humiliation and bullying by alien soldiers. You have no freedom of movement or rights whatsoever. Imagine that you grow old, and watch the pain of your children going through the same hell for rest of their lives with no end in sight and no hope.
Then imagine that this alien invader, having taken everything from you is still not happy. They still insist on further starving the tiny strip of land u have left to live on. They send in soldiers at will to kill your children who naturally throw stones at them. They cut off your water, food, medicine and electricity. And further still build settlements to steal yet even more land. LETS BE 100% CLEAR, THIS IS WHAT ISRAEL HAS DONE. Hence I laud Will Self, for pointing out the obvious fact.
That ISRAEL IS THE VILLAIN.
If the Govt and BBC have lost their moral sense to state this truth, then Im glad that at least the First Post has the integrity to do so.
All my work is highly personal; it's more personal than me. You know, reading my books is having a far more intimate relationship with me than having a relationship with me."
"I want to be misunderstood. And the other thing that amuses me is: I don't particularly want to be liked. Nobody goes into the business of writing satire to be liked. Whether I am or am not a nice bloke is neither here nor there. It's not part of the task I've set myself in my art."
This is a quote from Will Self speaks for its self.
For more info about Will Self read his Wikipedia entry
The Blitz.
Between 100-200 bombers attacked London 57 consecutive nights. 43,000 civilians were killed half of them from London.
Did the British sit back and do nothing, no they fought the enemy.
September 11th 2001 Islamist terrorists, Al-Quada attacked New York, 2.974 people died. The USA responded invading Afghanistan.
Since 2001 till December 2008 4,048 rockets landed on Israeli soil and 4,040 mortar attacks on Israeli targets, Israel gave homes and land away to create peace but still the rockets came over so Israel done what any other country has done in the past and attacked their enemy.
Israel regrets the innocent killing of civilians but if Hamas uses Children and women as human shields then those shields will get killed no matter what precautions are taken to not kill them.
" We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children.
We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us" Golda Meir
'Volvo-driving Calibans', are we? Some years ago I was sitting in my ancient Renault 4, parked in Kensington Park Road in Notting Hill. The car parked in front of me started up and reversed into me. It was a Volvo estate. The driver was Will Caliban Self.
The trouble with the USA , GB and, of course, consequently Israel, is that they insist on using the exploitation of others as a means of making themselves rich. Although it worked for hundreds of years for them in the past it will not work much longer. The world has changed. Sharing is the answer now , not greed.
Worse still these three countries have become so corrupt that they are rotting from within and don't even know it.
They are their own worse enemies and until they realize this they are doomed.
Imagine if a schoolchild went around school constantly poking at the school bully and the bully told them to stop many times over, but the schoolchild continued. Then the bully lost his temper and beat him to a pulp and the schoolchild went to the teachers to complain. Whose fault is it, the schoolchild for not trying to live with the bully in peace or the bully for not containing his temper when provoked?
I look forward to you backing your own advice with action.
Refuse to pay you taxes Will, and you will earn my respect. Criticise others for not doing so and fail to do it yourself you're just another pundit making a living out of it.
PS
Did you at least donate your fees for these articles?
Absolutely correct. The Israeli war machine that has indiscriminately butchered innocent people just ups and leaves. It is totally unacceptable. The trouble is people are afraid to speak out about Israeli abuses for fear of a backlash. Disgraceful hypocrisy.