Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Warcrimes and media bias

This story has been growing in the last hour...
Israel bomb 'kills UN observers'

Four United Nations peacekeepers have been killed in an Israeli air strike on an observation post in southern Lebanon, the UN has said.

A bomb struck the post occupied by the peacekeepers of the Unifil force in the Khiam area, it said.

The attack came as Israel announced it would keep control over an area in southern Lebanon until a new international force could be deployed.
The story broke on BBC News 24 when the studio gimp was interviewing Jim Muir.

"We're getting reports that the Israeli air force has bombed a UN observation post; Jim, this will be a little embarrassing for Israel won't it?"

Embarrassing? Is that a sick joke? Saddam Hussein denied the UN access to his palace and his country is bombed back to the stone age; the BBC cheering them all the way to Baghdad. Yet the slaughter of 4 unarmed UN observers by Israel is merely embarrassing. It can only be a matter of days before the BBC on-screen logo is replaced by a star of David. Maybe only hours.

You can complain to BBC News here. Please do so. I have and will post the reply as soon as I receive one. If, of course I receive one.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Mate, Its interesting to see that the BBC changed their tune a bit tonight (Friday), as they got the opinion of a military expert who openly stated that there was no way on Gods earth that the large white building, standing alone, with 10 foot high black letters saying UN could have possibly been hit accidently by the israeli forces. Perhaps in the light of the opinion poll claiming that 63% of the British public think that we stand far too close to bully boy Bush, the Beeb may be on the sway?! Waddaya think?

10:35 pm  

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