Rare BBC reports on vandalism of Jewish settlers in West Bank

Deir Al Hattab village had 660 olive trees destroyed by illegal Jewish-only settlements pumping sewage

 

 

We are so used to the BBC's well-documented bias towards the Israeli version of events in Israel/Palestine that it is surprising to hear BBC Radio 4 report a sliver - less than four minutes - of the brutal mayhem Israeli settlers are visiting on the heads of the Palestinians of the Israeli-occupied West Bank at the same time as their brutal siege of Gaza goes on. 

 

 

 

The BBC journalist meets Palestinian victims of these vile settlers/colons who

  • deliberately vandalise farms and shamelessly deny their crimes
  • pump raw sewage from Jewish-only settlements onto Palestinian farms to poison their trees
  • announce their commitment to divinely sanctioned ethnic cleansing
  • spray 'Death to the Arabs'

Tree hugging - Palestinian woman tries to protect olive trees from Israeli Army demolitionAll of these crimes are committed by psychopathic Jewish settlers, whose crimes are

  • supported by the Israeli Army, whose crimes are
  • supported by the Israeli Government, whose crimes are
  • supported by the British Government, which is
  • supported by MPs across Scotland and the UK, who are
  • allowed to go about their criminality unmolested by a passive citizenry 

Full report BBC Radio 4 November 18, 2010

 

 

Of course the BBC could have asked the settler spokesman feigning horror at Jews cutting down olive trees, about

  • Israeli occupation forces protecting Jewish settlers who are waging war on Palestinian olive orchards throughout the occupied West Bank.
  • Palestinian farmers having to struggle on a daily basis with Israeli army troops and Jewish settlers pursuing a relentless campaign to destroy Palestinian olive orchards throughout the West Bank.
  • olive trees being uprooted by heavy machinery and replanted at a neighboring Jewish settlement or kibbutz.
  • Palestinian officials estimate of “hundreds of thousands of grown olive trees” destroyed and uprooted.
  • farmers trying to defend their crops being attacked by settlers and the Israeli army which arrests the Palestinians for “entering a closed military zone.”  ISRAELI WAR ON PALESTINIAN OLIVE March 16, 2009 by Khalid Amayreh
     

 

Mick Napier

19 November 2010

chair@scottishpsc.org.uk