Jon Donnison has a scoop. “Stop Press! No Change!”
He’s bursting to tell us that the UN says there has been ‘no material change for people in Gaza since Israel was “easing” its economic blockade of the Palestinian territory’.
As if that wasn’t enough of a sensation, John Ging, head of UN operations in Gaza has more astounding revelations.
“There’s been no material change for the people on the ground here in terms of their status, the aid dependency, the absence of any recovery or reconstruction, no economy,”
Jon Donnison must have been keen to get that off his chest. Not quite so keen to tell us about John Ging’s little problem with his personal protection, however, which is slightly more interesting than the ‘no change’ story, by anybody’s standards.
There are quite a few things that Jon Donnison finds too dull to pass on. For example the revelation that Hamas had admitted that 600-700 of its men were killed during Operation Cast Lead.
No change at the BBC, though. At every opportunity since Operation Cast Lead the BBC website has given fluctuating figures (ranging from 1409 to 1166) for what they call ‘Palestinian deaths’ but are always careful to mention that three of the 13 Israelis who died were civilians.
Here, they’ve got three sets of figures, the highest is from the Pali Human Rights Centre.
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Of those, 326 are supposedly children under 17, and 916 are “civilians”. An NB says 250 “Hamas Police Officers” are excluded from the figure.
This doesn’t appear to add up, but never mind, because now Hamas admit that they lied about the civilians; so Israel’s claims about that were correct after all, despite what the UN and Richard Goldstone would have us believe.
Anyone who cites the UN as a worthy judge of Israel’s conduct, take a peak at the countries whose reps spoke at a meeting this month.
“Egypt, Qatar, Tunisia, Malaysia, Morocco, Sudan, Bangladesh, Bahrain, Iran, Jordan, Libya, UAE, Algeria, Lebanon, Yemen, Nigeria, Tanzania, the PA – and Israel.”
Impartiality in their genes? I think not. And to the BBC none of this is news. So no change.
What, business not increasing at the shiny new shopping mall or Mercedes dealership?
Thanks for the links.
Another question that the BBC forgot to ask Ging was about the strike by UNRWA workers in the West Bank, now over three weeks old: http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2010/11/unrwa-workers-still-on-strike-unrwa.html
People aren’t getting basic services, but the UNRWA website is still silent on the matter.
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer bunch of … ‘aid workers’.
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One of the people on board is that ex-US Marine with tattoos, O’Keefe. Describes himself as a “victim” of the Marmara incident.
Well, he says he’s a truthsayer, so it must be true!
Talking of the UN and its pro-Islamic stance, and hypocrisy on human right, Pamela Geller noted this:
Saudi Arabia elected to UN’s new women’s rights agency
[Extract]:
“Pamela Geller sums it up: This defies western logic, but not the agenda of the OIC-driven, sharia compliant UN. Saudi Arabia, where a 32-year-old woman is jailed for disobeying her father, where a pregnant gang-rape victim is sentenced to 100 lashes for committing adultery, where women are not allowed to drive, where women are lashed for being in the company of any male who is not a relative, where a 75-year-old could be flogged for breaching sex segregation rules, where a Saudi father weds his daughter, 10, to an 80-year-old pervert: “according to the shari’a his marriage is legal as long as the girl’s father consents,” where a child bride is turned back over to her 80-year-old husband……….. must I go on?'”
In contrast, INBBC’s Barbara ‘tears for Arafat’ Plett has this mealy-mouthed comment, in which she explicitly censors out any reference to ‘Islam’ and ‘Sharia law’:
“Iran and Saudi Arabia bid for seat on UN gender agency”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11718367
The UN had 2 of the most murderous regimes in history as part of its main ruling body and still has one. When an organisation is happy to give such an important role to regimes which have such complete contempt for the human rights of their own people that they killed tens of millions of them, it is odd that the BBC thinks it appropriate to consider it an important commentator on human rights issues in Israel or anywhere else.
As far as I’m concerned if an organisation as disreputable as the UN is unhappy with Israel then Israel is probably behaving in an examplary fashion. I’m not sure that’s what BBC types expect me think though. They haven’t educated me yet.
American action in Gaza. http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com//articles/7007/world-citizen-is-america-fighting-al-qaida-in-gaza
One for INBBC to censor:
Palestinian ex-Muslim faces life sentence for criticizing Islam on Facebook