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    Here are some choice BBC News propaganda nuggets from 2006 Archived Message

    Posted by Morrissey on January 7, 2020, 4:03 am, in reply to "Re: Stupid oped in the Guardian"

    BBC News, Aug. 5th, 2006

    Israeli bombs kill twenty farmworkers loading fruit on the Syria-Lebanon border.
    JONATHAN: Incidents like that are very embarrassing for the Israelis. They PRIDE themselves on trying to hit the right targets, so---
    STUDIO: That's right, Jonathan.
    JONATHAN; Israelis are PROUD of their Defence Force.

    Aug. 8th, 2006
    "It's the civilians in both countries who are bearing the brunt of the actions." --- BBC "From Our Own Correspondent" in Beirut. Today Hezbollah rockets killed ten people in Israel--ALL OF THEM SOLDIERS. BBC comments: "This was the single greatest loss of life in one day during the present conflict."

    Aug. 16, 2006
    6 a.m. "As for Syria, it's openly declared its support for Hezbollah and is widely believed to have supplied it with weapons. And so far it has not paid a price." --- BBC World Service radio News report.

    10.30 p.m. BBC reports that the Syrian president was "crowing that Israel was defeated by Hezbollah."

    1 a.m. Owen Bennet Jones, BBC: More than 200 people have been killed in Gaza---"many of them civilians." Hamas has fired rockets from Gaza; Israel has "launched massive airstrikes in retaliation." Bennett Jones continually refers to "the kidnapped Israeli soldier"; never once mentions one of the thousands of kidnapped Palestinian civilians.

    Sept. 1, 2006
    3 a.m. BBC World Service News: "....to repair the damage caused by the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah."
    Beit Jubail has been 95 percent destroyed by Israel.
    NICHOLAS WITCHELL FROM BEIRUT: Does anybody here blame Hezbollah for provoking Israel to do this?
    HEZBOLLAH OFFICIAL: No, I have not heard that yet.

    There are more than 100,000 unexploded cluster bombs in South Lebanon.

    Sept. 23, 2006
    BBC television news: Hezbollah rally in Beirut. BBC Jerusalem correspondent WYRE DAVIES: "There were many civilian casualties on both sides."


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