As predicted the BBC couldn’t keep up the good work for long in their little run of fair play.
Yesterday they ran a headline on the ‘eye-witness’ accounts aboard the flotilla: Witnesses cast doubt on Israel’s convoy raid account”, which was emblazoned across their home page.
Robin Shepherd had it absolutely spot on:
So, members of a virulently anti-Israeli convoy whose friends, colleagues and soul mates launched a violent attack on Israeli soldiers which ended in bloodshed have a different version of events from the Israelis, their sworn enemies? That’s a quotable lesson in BBC propaganda: people whom the average 11 year old could see have a conflict of interest are passed off as objective “eyewitnesses”.
But this is par for the course. And why not when the UN itself treats actors in the conflict who are terrorist organisations (Hamas) as if they were UN members, giving them credence, legitimacy and succour whilst they actively seek to destroy an actual UN member (Israel).
Please read Robin Shepherd’s article, he is at his brilliant best.