The Tunisians are building an anti-terror wall, as are the Saudis…I wonder if they had Israeli advisors?
Nary a peep from the usual suspects about these apartheid walls….unlike for Israel’s ‘wall of shame’.
We looked at the BBC’s hypocrisy when it comes to Israel’s security barrier before…..they must ‘avoid the political connotations of ‘security fence’ (preferred by the Israeli government) or ‘apartheid wall’ (preferred by the Palestinians). ‘
Never mind that it is a ‘security fence’, and it is mostly a fence, and is there to stop Palestinians murdering Israelis in terrorist attacks….the BBC’s ‘impartiality’ and balance is in reality partiality. As I say below...’.all very difficult if you have an agenda whilst trying to appear not to have.’ All ironic considering John Humphrys has said (H/T True Too on this site and Craig at Is the BBC biased?)…
My point is, if we shy away from words we feel might cause a bit of offence….if we try to find euphemisms then it’s a dangerous road to go down. We’re not exactly where Orwell was but we’re taking those tiny little baby steps towards that unhealthy state of affairs.
By using the term ‘barrier’, ‘separation barrier’ or ‘West Bank barrier’ the BBC hides the nature and source of the violent threats that made the wall necessary. It hides the fact that Israel is under terrorist attack by an orgainsation that wishes to wipe it off the map, literally.
From Biased BBC last year….
Degrees Of Separation
Look familiar? That’s not Israel or the West Bank but Northern Ireland
What’s in a name?
Build a wall and it seems the most pressing problem is how to define what that wall is intended to do….what to name the construction…..all very difficult if you have an agenda whilst trying to appear not to have.
In Northern Ireland walls that keep the warring parties apart are ‘Peace Walls’…and they’re still being built….as this BBC report from 2013 reveals:
New ‘peace fence’ at St Matthew’s Church in east Belfast
and here explains the history of these ‘Peace walls’ as the BBC is happy to call them:
Peace walls were first erected in Northern Ireland in the late 1960s as a temporary measure to minimise violence between nationalist and unionist communities.
Four decades later many are still in place.
Belfast’s ‘peace walls’ treble after ceasefires
Funny that the BBC, so willing to recognise that the walls in NI are there to stop terrorism and violence, but can’t bring itself to admit the same motivations are what caused Israel to build its own ‘Peace Wall’.
The BBC’s advice to journalists on what to call the security barrier?
Barrier
BBC journalists should try to avoid using terminology favoured by one side or another in any dispute.
The BBC uses the term ‘barrier’, ‘separation barrier’ or ‘West Bank barrier’ as an acceptable generic description to avoid the political connotations of ‘security fence’ (preferred by the Israeli government) or ‘apartheid wall’ (preferred by the Palestinians).
The United Nations also uses the term ‘barrier’. It’s better to keep to this word unless you have sought the advice of the Middle East bureau.
Of course, a reporter standing in front of a concrete section of the barrier might choose to say ‘this wall’ or use a more precise description in the light of what he or she is looking at.
By using such non-descript terms the BBC is in fact using ‘terminology favoured by one side’…the Palestinian terrorist …because the bland, inoffensive, anodyne phrases strip the ‘Barrier’ of all meaning….and imposes another…the suggestion that this is about ‘separation’….feeding into the activists loaded ‘favoured terminology’ of Israel as an ‘apartheid’ state.
This is a deliberate attempt by the BBC to play down Palestinian violence…just as it does with Palestinian rockets…invariably described as ‘homemade’ and ‘inaccurate’…the intention being to suggest they are essentially harmless and not a justification for Israeli retaliation.
Stripping away the real reason for the construction of the security barrier, to stop Palestinians bombing Israelis or shooting at them (hence the concrete sections), is a political intervention by the BBC on behalf of the Palestinians.
The BBC is hiding the fact that Israel has been under attack for over 60 years and is using language favourable to Palestinian terrorists.
(Remind me…why did the BBC spend £300,000 hiding the Balen report? Does it say in effect ‘BBC News kills Jews‘? Just which journalists and management are being protected?)
Perhaps the BBC should take note of what a Palestinian called the ‘Separation Barrier’….
Mohammed Assaf, winner of the Arab Idol says:
‘There are many ways to make a difference in life, but my way is as an artist,” said Assaf, a graduate of Palestine University who has just become a UN youth ambassador. “I’ve always wanted to make my voice heard around the world, to sing about the occupation, about the security walls between communities, and about refugees. My first ambition is a cultural revolution through art. Palestinians don’t want war – they are tired of fighting.”
‘Security Wall’….So called because it provides security to Israelis from Palestinian terrorism.
Simple really…unless you have a political agenda and want to send a message.
I suppose to the bbc, the walls built by China, to keep out the barbarian hordes were also apartheid walls. It’s a pity we cannot build a wall around the bbc.
Or London in general, I’d be quite happy to see them locked out of my country, they are destroying it in the cause of building their “new Jerusalem” if you pardon the phrase.
Your ‘country’ being those Anglo-Saxon/Celtic strongholds of Bradford, Dewsbury, Rochdale, Rotherham, Birmingham, Peterborough etc and, increasingly, Cardiff.
That should work.
I wouldn’t mind Hadrians Wall being renovated if the Scottish Nationalist Socialists get their way . It would be the last money spent on that problem .
The Tunisians are building an anti-terror wall
Would that mean excluding all followers of the Religion of Peace?
UK: 13-year-old raped “up to seven times per night” by Muslims
http://10news.dk/?p=1428
So, the wall is called, by the Palestinians, the ‘apartheid wall’, according to the BBC article mentioned above.
Let me see, it’s being put there to provide a separation between one state which has Muslims, Jews, Christians, etc., etc., within its borders, and another state which is basically run by a bunch of Muslim terrorists, using the local populace as a human shield, which hates the idea of there being any other religion in the world, far less being on their side of the wall (and where no Jew, for instance, would be allowed to survive for a second longer than necessary to kill them).
Well, if that concurs with what the BBC and its Islamic friends in Gaza are happy to define or report as ‘apartheid’…. then I guess it must be an ‘apartheid wall’…..
MENDING WALL
Robert Frost
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun,
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
‘Stay where you are until our backs are turned!’
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of out-door game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, ‘Good fences make good neighbors’.
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
‘Why do they make good neighbors? Isn’t it
Where there are cows?
But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I’d ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,
That wants it down.’ I could say ‘Elves’ to him,
But it’s not elves exactly, and I’d rather
He said it for himself. I see him there
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me~
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father’s saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, “Good fences make good neighbors.”
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This is a deliberate attempt by the BBC to play down Palestinian violence…just as it does with Palestinian rockets…invariably described as ‘homemade’ and ‘inaccurate’…the intention being to suggest they are essentially harmless and not a justification for Israeli retaliation.
Precisely (and thanks for the hat tip, Alan).
I remember a few years back you couldn’t read a BBC ‘news’ article on Gaza without being informed that the rockets were “clumsy, inaccurate and home-made.”
However, as Hamas began to use more sophisticated rockets smuggled in from Iran and which reached Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, those descriptions dried up. Since it’s no longer possible to push their anti-Israel agenda via that avenue, the propagandists have stopped depicting the rockets altogether.
This is one of the more blatant examples of the bias of this rotten organisation.