Who is to blame for the latest Isreal Palestine war really ?
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Why BBC doesn't call Hamas militants 'terrorists' - John Simpson
Watch the 3 minute interview
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67083432
11 October 2023
Government ministers, newspaper columnists, ordinary people - they're all asking why the BBC doesn't say the Hamas gunmen who carried out appalling atrocities in southern Israel are terrorists.
The answer goes right back to the BBC's founding principles.
Terrorism is a loaded word, which people use about an outfit they disapprove of morally. It's simply not the BBC's job to tell people who to support and who to condemn - who are the good guys and who are the bad guys.
We regularly point out that the British and other governments have condemned Hamas as a terrorist organisation, but that's their business. We also run interviews with guests and quote contributors who describe Hamas as terrorists.
The key point is that we don't say it in our voice. Our business is to present our audiences with the facts, and let them make up their own minds.
During the 50 years I've been reporting on events in the Middle East, I've seen for myself the aftermath of attacks like this one in Israel, and I've also seen the aftermath of Israeli bomb and artillery attacks on civilian targets in Lebanon and Gaza. The horror of things like that stay in your mind forever.
But this doesn't mean that we should start saying that the organisation whose supporters have carried them out is a terrorist organisation, because that would mean we were abandoning our duty to stay objective.
And it's always been like this in the BBC. During World War Two, BBC broadcasters were expressly told not to call the Nazis evil or wicked, even though we could and did call them "the enemy".
Watch the 3 minute interview
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67083432
11 October 2023
Government ministers, newspaper columnists, ordinary people - they're all asking why the BBC doesn't say the Hamas gunmen who carried out appalling atrocities in southern Israel are terrorists.
The answer goes right back to the BBC's founding principles.
Terrorism is a loaded word, which people use about an outfit they disapprove of morally. It's simply not the BBC's job to tell people who to support and who to condemn - who are the good guys and who are the bad guys.
We regularly point out that the British and other governments have condemned Hamas as a terrorist organisation, but that's their business. We also run interviews with guests and quote contributors who describe Hamas as terrorists.
The key point is that we don't say it in our voice. Our business is to present our audiences with the facts, and let them make up their own minds.
During the 50 years I've been reporting on events in the Middle East, I've seen for myself the aftermath of attacks like this one in Israel, and I've also seen the aftermath of Israeli bomb and artillery attacks on civilian targets in Lebanon and Gaza. The horror of things like that stay in your mind forever.
But this doesn't mean that we should start saying that the organisation whose supporters have carried them out is a terrorist organisation, because that would mean we were abandoning our duty to stay objective.
And it's always been like this in the BBC. During World War Two, BBC broadcasters were expressly told not to call the Nazis evil or wicked, even though we could and did call them "the enemy".
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You are really naive. Self defence is not vengeance. What is your solution? Palestinians only want one thing. That is the end of Israel as a state. It is the death of every Jew. This has been plan A since the 1920's, before Israel was a nation. There is no plan B as far as Palestinians are concerned.
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death toll of Palestinians children which has been officially recorded by Gazza doctors at 4800 in 4 weeks.
Also a total 120000 one hundred and twenty thousand Palestinians have been murdered by the current leader of Isreal
If you can't see it's not ethnic cleansing maybe you can see it's genocide 🙄
Also a total 120000 one hundred and twenty thousand Palestinians have been murdered by the current leader of Isreal
If you can't see it's not ethnic cleansing maybe you can see it's genocide 🙄
I wonder, Cameron, if you think humanity can destroy Hamas? Some army, perhaps, current day the IDF? But the ideology that drives Hamas is enshrined in the Koran. Is Hamas not just one of many entities set up to destroy Israel? Oh, yeah, they are instructed to kill Christians too. They are positioning themselves to do that as well. But I digress. Can any human power stop this movement of anti Christ?
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It strikes me that defending its posterity is defending insanity. As if to say,
'let it alone, give it freedom to do as it will. After all, it's only just insane."
'let it alone, give it freedom to do as it will. After all, it's only just insane."
How ironic that even Christians defend it, when Muslims are explicitly instructed to kill us.
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Seems you're hiding behind the dead children the same as Hamas. If they cared 1 bit about these children they would move them away from the war targets and not use their lives as nothing more than a tool to gain sympathy and support from fools like you. Yes it's horrible, yes war is bad, but this is 1000% all their fault, every bit of it. Period.
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