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'
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- 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.
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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
