An open letter to Jeremy Corbyn in Left Foot Forward by Alan Johnson

An interesting article that deserves wider readership.

Here's an extract, the bit relevant to Jeremy Corbyn's choice of 'friends':

'...  But you won't get my vote.

You won't get it because Labour's best traditions also include anti-fascism and internationalism while your support – to me, inexplicable and shameful –  for the fascistic and antisemitic forces of Hezbollah and Hamas flies in the face of those traditions. In particular, your full-throated cheer-leading for the vicious antisemitic Islamist Raed Salah is a deal-breaker.

Why did you lend your support to Raed Salah? No, he is not a 'critic of Israel', but a straight-up Jew hater.

You said in 2012, 'Salah is far from a dangerous man', even though the left-wing, anti-Netanyahu Israeli newspaper of record, Ha'aretz, reported that Salah was first charged with inciting anti-Jewish racism and violence in January 2008.

You said 'Salah is a very honoured citizen', even though Salah was found guilty of spreading the blood libel – the classic antisemitic slander that Jews use the blood of gentile children to make their bread. He did so during a speech on 16 February 2007 in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Wadi Joz.

I mean, just listen to Salah: 'We have never allowed ourselves to knead [the dough for] the bread that breaks the fast in the holy month of Ramadan with children's blood', he said. 'Whoever wants a more thorough explanation, let him ask what used to happen to some children in Europe, whose blood was mixed in with the dough of the holy bread.' (The UK Appeal Court decided that 'We do not find this comment could be taken to be anything other than a reference to the blood libel against Jews.' It also decided that this would 'offend and distress Israeli Jews and the wider Jewish community.')

You said: 'Salah represents his people extremely well', even though after the 9/11 terrorist attacks Salah wrote this in the October 5, 2001 issue of the weekly Sawt al-Haq w'al-Huriyya (Voice of Justice and Freedom): 'A suitable way was found to warn the 4,000 Jews who work every day at the Twin Towers to be absent from their work on September 11, 2001, and this is really what happened! 

Were 4,000 Jewish clerks absent [from their jobs] by chance, or was there another reason? At the same time, no such warning reached the 2,000 Muslims who worked every day in the Twin Towers, and therefore there were hundreds of Muslim victims.'

You said 'Salah's is a voice that must be heard' even though he has called homosexuality a 'great crime' and recently [preached that 'Jerusalem will soon become the capital of the global caliphate' which will 'spread justice throughout the land after it was filled with injustice by America, the Zionist enterprise, the Batiniyya, reactionism, Paganism and the Crusaders.' i.e. everyone who does not follow his brand of Sunni Islam.

You said 'I look forward to giving you tea on the terrace because you deserve it!', even though the Islamic Movement [the northern branch of which Salah heads] has eulogised Osama bin Laden and Salah has incited Muslims against Jews by writing incendiary lies such as this: 'The unique mover wanted to carry out the bombings in Washington and New York in order to provide the Israeli establishment with a way out of its entanglements.' Who do you think he meant by 'the unique mover'?

Why is that kind of conspiratorial antisemitism, dripping with threat and menace, worthy of tea on the terrace?

And it isn't just a problem with Salah, is it? You said it was 'my pleasure and my honour' to host 'our friends from Hezbollah and our friends from Hamas' in the Commons.

Really?

Why do you not care that the Hamas Charter states that 'Islam will obliterate Israel' and enjoins all good Muslims to kill Jews, whom it blames for all the wars and revolutions in classic antisemitic fashion?

Why don't you challenge your 'friends in Hamas' about the inclusion in their Charter of this canonical Hadith: 'The Day of Judgment will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Muslims, O Abdullah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.'

And why are Hezbollah your friends? They are an antisemitic Islamist goose-stepping 'Party of God' who persecute (and assassinate) liberals and democrats in Lebanon whenever they can. The Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah said 'If Jews all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide.' (NY Times, May 23, 2004, p. 15, section 2, column 1.)  Your 'friends' were enthusiastically slaughtering Syrian civilians on behalf of the Assad regime long before ISIS or Jabhat Al-Nusra joined the fray.'

Plenty there that interviewers from the British media could raise with Jeremy Corbyn but you won't hear a squeak from the institutionally anti Israel BBC.

More of that open letter here http://leftfootforward.org/2015/06/an-open-letter-to-jeremy-corbyn/

Paul Chowdhry is unlikely to get on to any BBC comedy panel shows

Paul Chowdhry is unlikely to get on to any BBC comedy panel shows; his colour is acceptable but his views & jokes are nowhere near left wing enough.

Jeremy Corbyn 'looks forward to the day when the inevitable asteroid slams into the earth and wipes them out thus giving nature the opportunity to start again.'

What a charmer Jeremy Corbyn is/was. Back in 2003 he signed an Early Day Motion, as below:

'PIGEON BOMBS
Session: 2003-04
Date tabled: 21.05.2004
Primary sponsor: Banks, Tony
Sponsors:
 

That this House is appalled, but barely surprised, at the revelations in M15 files regarding the bizarre and inhumane proposals to use pigeons as flying bombs; recognises the important and live-saving role of carrier pigeons in two world wars and wonders at the lack of gratitude towards these gentle creatures; and believes that humans represent the most obscene, perverted, cruel, uncivilised and lethal species ever to inhabit the planet and looks forward to the day when the inevitable asteroid slams into the earth and wipes them out thus giving nature the opportunity to start again.
 

Total number of signatures: 3

Show:Supported byWithdrawn signatures

Showing 3 out of 3

Name
Party
Constituency
Date Signed
Banks, Tony Labour Party West Ham 21.05.2004
Corbyn, Jeremy Labour Party Islington North 25.05.2004
McDonnell, John Labour Party Hayes and Harlington 16.09.2004

More here http://www.parliament.uk/edm/2003-04/1255 but not on the BBC of course.

Cornell dean says ISIS welcome on campus in undercover video per New York Post

Read this article http://nypost.com/2015/03/24/cornell-dean-says-isis-welcome-on-campus-in-undercover-video/ and then wonder if he'd have been happy to have an Israeli government representative come to his campus and give a lecture.

Zarif: 'Karine A Was an Israeli False Flag' per The Weekly Standard

He does claim that here http://m.weeklystandard.com/blogs/zarif-karine-was-israeli-false-flag_1005174.html but also:

'Zarif is warning that maybe Israel will try to frame Iran again—maybe by building a secret nuclear facility under an Iranian mountain, or something equally devious'

Are there no limits to what Islamists will accuse Israel of?

Father let daughter drown rather than be rescued by male lifeguards because it would 'dishonour' her per Mirror Online

'Father let daughter drown rather than be rescued by male lifeguards because it would 'dishonour' her

The father stopped the rescue team from saving her because he preferred that she die than be touched by a strange man. '

Oh for heaven's sake.

More here http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/father-daughter-drown-rescued-male-6226135?ICID=FB_mirror_main

Drip drip drip

I love graphs, charts and the like. Which is why this one struck me as rather biased... Look at what the left believe in compared to the right, and ask which side children would plump for... 

I saw this in a book on sale at Oliver Bonas but it is also available online.

Jeremy Corbyn backs greater public ownership for Labour per BBC News

The BBC report http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-33839819 this:

'Labour should not shy away from putting "necessary things" in public ownership as it establishes its future direction, leadership hopeful Jeremy Corbyn says.

He told the Independent on Sunday the party could restore its commitment to public investment in areas such as rail, either "restoring the Clause IV" or using a different one.'

No mention of how the state would pay for the assets that it would nationalise but then why would the BBC report negatively about any left wing Labour politician?

The World's Deadly Obsession With Israel

There's plenty to agree with in this article... http://www.forbes.com/2010/06/23/israel-hamas-middle-east-opinions-columnists-daniel-freedman.html

This old comment by columnist Thomas Friesland for example:

"Criticizing Israel is not anti-Semitic, and saying so is vile. But singling out Israel for opprobrium and international sanction–out of all proportion to any other party in the Middle Eas –is anti-Semitic, and not saying so is dishonest."

Labour lost because voters believed it was anti-austerity per LabourList

A fascinating article on Labour List http://labourlist.org/2015/08/labour-lost-because-voters-believed-it-was-anti-austerity/ that should put the record straight as to why Labour lost the last general election. Here's an extract but do read the whole piece as I doubt that the BBC will report it as it contradicts the agreed Labour BBC anti austerity narrative :

'Voters rejected Labour because they perceived the Party as anti-austerity lite. 58% agree that, 'we must live within our means so cutting the deficit is the top priority'. Just 16% disagree. Almost all Tories and a majority of Lib Dems and Ukip voters agree.

Amongst working class C2DE voters 54% agree and 15% disagree. Labour voters are evenly divided; 32% agree compared to 34% who disagree.'

The Other News: Arab Female Writer To Women Of The Arab East: Leave Your Benighted Countries Before It Is Too Late!

A fascinating point of view here http://www.mfs-theothernews.com/2015/08/arab-female-writer-to-women-of-arab.html

Here's an extract

'In a recent article titled "Leave the Wretched East" in the Kuwaiti daily Al-Rai, Nadine Al-Budair, a Saudi journalist and women's rights activist who lives in Dubai, formerly a presenter on the Arabic-language American television channel Alhurra, urged the women of the Arab Mashraq (the Arab countries of the eastern Mediterranean basin) to leave their homelands that oppress them and deny their rights.

Al-Budair spared no criticism from the society of the Arab east, stating that ISIS is a natural product of this society, which is rife with violence and extremism and tends to spurn the other and accuse him of heresy.

She warned women that, in countries that humiliate them, subordinate them to men, exclude them from politics and force them to wear the veil, it is no surprise that women end up being sold in ISIS's slave markets. Hence, they should leave these countries "before it is too late," for there is no light at the end of the tunnel and the region has no future.'

West Papua: The small island where 15% of population have been killed by Muslims

Another story that you won't hear on the BBC,  if only there was a way to blame Israel as then the institutionally anti Israel BBC would report the story.

'Muslims are slaughtering the aboriginals of West Papua after taking occupation by force, and killing their dreams of independence granted onto them.

It's so easy to forget that Muslim violence and oppression is an everyday reality in many small places around the world too.

The people of West Papua have been suffering under Indonesian occupation since 1962. Over 500,000 civilians have been killed, and thousands more have been raped, tortured and imprisoned by Muslims. Foreign media and human rights groups are banned from operating in West Papua, so people rarely hear about the situation there.'

More here http://www.jewsnews.co.il/2015/08/04/west-papua-the-small-island-where-15-of-population-have-been-killed-by-muslims/ but disgracefully not on the BBC.

The Islamic State's Campaign Plan targets India

'Certain of its final victory, ISIS declares in the document, "Accept the fact that this caliphate will survive and prosper until it takes over the entire world and beheads every last person that rebels against Allah. ... This is the bitter truth, swallow it."'

More here http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6275/islamic-state-india but not on the pro Pakistan, anti India BBC.

George Cole Delivers Arthur Daley's Goodbye Message 1994

https://youtu.be/2c7sShLY1d0

George Cole RIP

The bomb: 76 years later - UK Indymedia

This article from 2011 by Jeremy Corbyn https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/08/483050.html is fascinating, not least because in 2011 he says that Hiroshima happened 76 years previously. 2011 - 1945 = 66 not 76.

It looks as though Jeremy Corbyn is as mathematically challenged as Andy 'seven eights' Burnham.

In other words... From Tube strike set to go ahead in night service row per BBC News

This BBC report http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-33773658 includes this piece of analysis from the BBC's transport expert...

'The relatively new team at London Underground is experienced in business but not in the railways, and I get the impression that there has been a bit of a culture clash over the way both sides are used to doing deals.'

In other words the London Underground team are used to dealing with reasonable people who haven't got the weapon of stopping the Capital from working properly as a tool to use in negotiations.

The sooner we have legislation in place to stop Trade Unions taking industrial action that deliberately targets innocent workers as a means to win industrial disputes the better. Either that or  London Underground should bring in driverless trains as they have on the DLR in order to ensure that Londoners travel to and from work is no longer subject to the whim of militant train drivers who are massively over paid to sit on their collective backsides, press a few buttons and make occasional incomprehensible announcements.

Siri On Barry's iPhone 4S - The Big Bang Theory

Barry Kripke has Siri...

Lynton Crosby's poll is a headache for Cameron per The Commentator

An interesting article and one you should read in full here http://www.thecommentator.com/article/6017/lynton_crosby_s_poll_is_a_headache_for_cameron but one part struck me...

'Europe is no longer the toxic issue it used to be (if it ever was) or that the pro-establishment media and the metropolitan Left want it to be. It is a key concern for most voters, because it's tied to their concerns about immigration, which weighs more heavily as the public is inundated with the shambolic scenes in Calais and the refugee camp there, charmingly named, "The Jungle".'

That is right on the money. The BBC and other left wing media tried to put people off 'banging on about Europe' by saying it turned voters off. I never believed that was the case, I thought it more likely that the BBC was just trying to protect its much loved EU project from harm.

BBC left wing bias infects even I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue

I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue which is normally pretty non political, apart from Jeremy Hardy and the occasional gag. However this week there was a round asking for Daily Mail style headlines for news events, past and present. Quite funny, if not that original. I wonder if a future week's show will include A Guardian style headlines round, it could be just as funny, but not I suspect in the eyes of the BBC.

Andy “Seven Eights” Burnham per Guido Fawkes

Guido Fawkes reports http://order-order.com/2015/08/03/andy-seven-eights-burnham about the intellectual colossus that is Andy Burnham, including that his nickname at school was "seven eights" because according to his mother 'He couldn't remember that seven eights are 56.'  

The report sourced from the Labour supporting Mirror also reports that:

'Before Ed Miliband chose Ed Balls as his Shadow Chancellor, he searched his Shadow Cabinet for an alternative. The FT famously revealed that Burnham was suggested for the job:"But Andy can't do maths," was Mr Miliband's lament.'

If that's the case then why was Andy  Burnham Chief Secretary to the Treasury ahead of the 2008 crash? Possibly he should have been in a less mathematically demanding role, maybe tea maker.

Schools teaching 'pro-Palestinian extremist agenda’ per Telegraph

Nothing in this article surprises me. The NUT like much of the British left, including the BBC, is irretrievably anti Israel. 

One line caught my eye though:

'Images in the pack's appendix feature a Palestinian child who has been "assaulted by settlers" and the video contains a reference to "Jews" as opposed to "Israelis"'

Jews not Israelis, hmm they need Lyse Doucet to correct their 'mistranslation'. 

Original article here http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/11779570/Schools-teaching-pro-Palestinian-extremist-agenda.html

Democracy in the Palestinian Territories

PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas recently canceled the scheduled elections for the student councils after the first such election, at Bir Zeit Uniersity, resulted in the Islamist Bloc winning 26 out of the 51 seats, while Abbas's Fatah movement won only 19.

The online Hamas newspaper Alresalah charged that Abbas canceled the remaining elections out of fear the Islamists would defeat Fatah on other campuses, as well.

Elections are a bit of a sore point for Abbas's regime. He was first elected as chairman of the PA on January 15, 2005, for what was supposed to be a single four-year term. That term ended in January 2009, yet, more than six years later, Abbas is still in power and no further elections have been held.'

Democracy in the Palestinian Territories is not something that worries the institutionally anti Israel BBC.

More here http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/07/31/the-canceling-of-palestinian-elections/

Dehumanising language from the BBC

The BBC have been up in arms, along with their political allies in the Labour Party, about David Cameron's use of the word swarm to refer to illegal immigrants in Calais. 

The wonderful Craig at Isthebbcbiased.blogspot.co.uk has done some of his usual detailed research and finds that the BBC might possibly be being hypocritical.

'Prepare to be offended to the very core of your being. The BBC has not been entirely innocent of using 'dehumanising' language about all and sundry - as you can see from the following seven BBC News website articles.'

The examples are here http://isthebbcbiased.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/dehumanising-language-from-bbc.html The BBC are beyond the pale.

Pregnant Migrant Heading To UK 'For My Baby'

When did the UK become the world's health service? 

This woman has fled Africa for a better life in Europe but it appears that France isn't good enough because they actually deal with immigration in a vaguely sensible way. So the UK, for which you can read England and probably London, is the target where free health care for her delivery will be available and then her British baby will mean that its mother can stay with it.

What is amazing, above all else, is how the British National Health Service can expand so easily to offer free medical care to anyone who wants it whether they are British or not. The National Health Service truly is 'the envy of the world'.

http://news.sky.com/story/1528704/pregnant-migrant-heading-to-uk-for-my-baby

With all the evil in the world, are bare breasts a problem?

Apparently:

'... three sisters, Tameera, Nadia and Alysha Mohamed, say that they took their shirts off because it was a hot summer day.

However, they allege that a police officer approached them and told them to cover up. But when they challenged this, the officer said he was stopping them for bike safety reasons.'

"bike safety reasons"? Breasts would have to be very pendulous to possibly interfere with the brakes let along the chain of a bicycle... 

Now I know that 'It is legal for women to be topless in Ontario after a court ruling in 1996.' I may add Ontario to my list of possible holiday destinations.

Original report here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-33750417

Jeremy Taylor: "I am a Liberal Man"

https://youtu.be/Ga4oFHu2h

Skewering lefty liberals... Somehow I doubt he'll ever get air time on the BBC

Bulletproof armadillo puts Texas man in hospital after shot bounces off hard shell - Karma in action

'A Texan man who tried to shoot an armadillo has found himself in hospital after his bullet bounced off the animal and hit him in the face.' 

Karma?

More here http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/bulletproof-armadillo-puts-texas-man-in-hospital-after-shot-bounces-off-hard-shell-10432102.html

Morrissey claims sex assault by security at US airport per BBC News

'British singer Morrissey has claimed he was sexually assaulted by a security officer at San Francisco International Airport, who he says "groped" him.' 

Heaven knows he's miserable now...

More here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-33731489

Thou Shall Not Murder by Aussie Dave aka Israellycool

Two vile attacks by Jews in or around Israel have left me disgusted. Israellycool puts it brilliantly here http://www.israellycool.com/2015/07/31/thou-shall-not-murder/ read it all. But here's an extract:

'Less than 24 hours. 2 shocking acts of murder and attempted murder.

Seemingly perpetrated by fellow Jews.

The first: Stabbing of participants at yesterday's Jerusalem gay pride parade, by a so-called "Orthodox" Jew.

The second: The murder of a toddler in an arson attack perpetrated against a palestinian family, in an apparent "price tag attack."

I cannot not address these acts.

Both attacks had a religious element. As a religiously observant Jew, I feel compelled to speak out loudly and clearly against this desecration of G-d's name and corruption of the ideals of the Torah from where we are taught "Thou shall not murder."

There is no way it is G-d's will to have His name desecrated in commission of crimes going against one of His Ten Commandments.

There are no ifs and buts about it. These are deplorable, evil acts and we need to speak out promptly and clearly against them, just like we do against palestinian terrorism.'

However what strikes me is the indecent eagerness of media outlets, especially the institutionally anti Israel BBC, to cover these stories and push them to the top of the news. It's almost as though they want to say, or at least imply, that 'look at this, the Israelis are intolerant, baby killing terrorists, we told you so. No wonder the poor Palestinian people have to respond'.

All populations have bad people, bad people do bad things. You should judge a people by how their leaders react to one of their people doing a bad thing. In the case of these recent attacks, the Israeli government, Prime Minister and religious leaders have denounced the perpetrators and apologised for their actions. Do contrast that with the response of the Palestinian leadership to their people committing acts of terrorism against Israelis, where the terrorists are paid and may well have streets or sports stadiums named after them.

A fair and unbiased media would make this distinction clear, but the BBC is neither fair nor unbiased.

Jerusalem Gay Pride: Six stabbed 'by ultra-Orthodox Jew' per BBC News

I think that the BBC news department have had a collective orgasm. The top news story on their world site, also third lead story on the main news site is that 'Jerusalem Gay Pride: Six stabbed 'by ultra-Orthodox Jew''

The BBC are going big on this story, never mind that the perpetrator has been arrested, never mind that the Israeli government has denounced the attack. This is just the type of story that gets the BBC's collective juices flowing as they can use it as yet another excuse to vilify Israel, coincidentally increasing the amount of anti Semitic sentiment in the UK and around the world. Meanwhile the Iranian state kills homosexuals just for being homosexual and other Islamic states persecute homosexuals, but that's not important news for the BBC as that might show Islam in a bad light and risk Islamophobia and that would never do.

How the BBC's Middle East 'journalists' sleep at night I'll never know.

More poisonous shite from the BBC here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-33726634

Amazon Prime signs ex-Top Gear hosts

Another reason to cancel the licence fee?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-33715671

Sharp rise in anti-semitic incidents in UK, figures suggest per BBC News

The BBC report http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33713259 on a sharp rise in anti-semitic incidents in the UK without ever mentioning the perpetrators or causes.

I'd hazard a guess that a large number of the perpetrators were Muslim and one of the reasons is the anti Israel hysteria that the institutionally anti Israel BBC has helped create.

Graeme Swann’s Kevin Pietersen impersonation

So so so funny

Kerry: We Don't Have 'Access' to the 'Actual Agreement' on Iran Side Deals per Breitbart

Oh marvellous, Kerry hasn't seen the whole agreement and doesn't think Rice has either. So how will Congress know what's actually in it? 

More here http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/07/28/kerry-we-dont-have-access-to-the-actual-agreement-on-iran-side-deals/ but not on the BBC who are desperate for Iran to have nuclear weapons and so threaten, maybe destroy Israel.

NHS is forced to remind doctors and nurses that they must give water to dying patients

The 'envy of the world', the NHS is at it again...

'Doctors and nurses are having to be reminded to give water to dying patients.

It is being spelled out to them in basic guidelines following concerns that patients are being denied fluids before their deaths.

Experts fear the controversial Liverpool Care Pathway – under which food and drink was withdrawn from the dying – has left a 'hangover' in the NHS a year after it was abolished.

Staff are routinely waiting up to three days before putting the terminally ill on drips or feeding tubes while they debate whether it is in their 'best interests'.

... warned that he still regularly sees severely dehydrated patients on wards
 

Now guidance from NHS watchdog Nice – the first of its kind – expressly tells staff to 'support' dying patients to drink, or get them to suck sponges soaked in water if they are very frail.

It specifically points out that dehydration is 'unlikely to hasten death' and fluids will not 'prolong' the dying process, but in fact ease a patient's suffering.'

More here http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3177974/NHS-forced-tell-doctors-water-dying-watchdog-fears-banned-care-pathway-use.html but probably not on the BBC where the NHS is a substitute for religion.

The BBC with half an explanation

This BBC report starts thus:

'The number of pupils attending England's secondary schools is set to rise by 20% over the course of the next decade, government figures show.

By 2024, nearly 3.3 million pupils are expected to be attending state-funded secondaries, compared with just over 2.7 million in 2015, a rise of 547,000.

The increase is mainly due to the upturn in the birth rate since 2002, the Department for Education says.

The rise follows years of falling rolls due to low birth rates in the 1990s.'

Well partially yes. But surely the part missing from the explanation is the phenomenonal increase in immigration post 1997. How many of the rise in secondary school pupils is accounted for by the children of people who immigrated to this country post 1997? Immigrants who had children as late as 2002 would now see those children entering secondary school this September. What was the rise in immigration between 1997 and 2002?

Living Wage 'could harm home care sector' per BBC News

It may be my imagination but I could have sworn that when the Labour Party were pushing the concept of a 'living wage' the BBC were all in favour and arguments against it were dismissed.  Now that the Conservatives have, however cynically, adopted the policy it seems that the problems with the policy need to be aired. 

This article http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-33678919 investigates the possible negative impact on part of the health service and local government.

It is incredible how the left, including the BBC, can change their minds about a policy so rapidly depending upon who's proposing it. Now where's my copy of 1984...

@TribeswithFlags isn't always amusing, sometimes he's really nasty

I posted earlier about a recent amusingly stupid tweet from @TribeswithFlags


Unfortunately it seems that he's not just an amusing fool, here's two earlier tweets that oddly enough he/she/it has chosen not to defend or justify.

Here's the first...

Interesting, an accusation that the Israelis are sending Palestinians to the ovens, with the implication that this is just as the Jews were sent by the Nazis. This sort of slur is more common than you might imagine amongst the nastier elements on Twitter.


Here's the second...

Strange that @TribeswithFlags thinks that the worst place in the world to be a Christian is Bethlehem not those areas of Iraq and Syria where Christians are being killed by ISIS for being insufficiently Muslim, or many other Islamic countries such as Pakistan.


I wonder what first attracted @TribeswithFlags to hate Israel...

Funniest tweet of the day - by @tribeswithflags

Hysterical...

BBC Andrew Marr's Tory Lord Coke Freudian Slip

It's so part of the BBC psyche

Hard left plot to infiltrate Labour race per The Sunday Times

'HARRIET HARMAN has been urged to suspend the Labour leadership race after evidence emerged that hard left infiltration is fuelling a huge surge in party membership.

More than 140,000 new activists are projected to have joined by the deadline for registration to vote, a rise of more than two thirds since the election, with many signing up to back the hard left candidate Jeremy Corbyn.

The Communist party of Great Britain has called on supporters to join and back Corbyn as part of its revolutionary "strategy" while Green party activists have also been discussing how to vote for him.

Labour MPs say their local parties have been flooded with new members, most of them supporting Corbyn, the MP for Islington North, who polls have suggested is the frontrunner in the leadership race.

Some of the new members have previously stood as candidates for the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition... '

More here http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/Politics/article1585822.ece

It would take a heart of stone not to laugh at the problems mounting up for the Labour Party.

"Palestinians murdering striped hyena"

https://youtu.be/eqc3tvc8-IE

Why would someone do that? Why is stoning a poor lost wild animal acceptable? How sick are these people?

UK cleric Anjem Choudary defends beheading of non-Muslim civilians during war

If only 10% of what Anjem Choudary says about the requirements of Islam are true, then it's still a scary prospect.

NDTV exclusive - how Hamas assembles and fires rockets from civilian areas in Gaza

A reminder of how a non institutionally anti Israel news organisation reports from Gaza. Feel free to compare with the BBC.

George Galloway yells "You make me sick!" at anti-Assad audience member

George Galloway making friends as always. Shouting and verbally bullying are his trademark moves.

Farmer faces fine for smoking break in tractor per BBC News

This BBC news report http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-33607067 is quite ridiculous but one thing that struck me is that the farmer was caught by a 'tobacco control officer'. How many of these tobacco control officers are there? How much does each get paid? What is the management structure that runs them? 

I hate smoking but the criminalisation of smokers is just another example of raising money via transgression taxes. Smokers and motorists are cash cows for government, whether national or local.

The two hundred and seventh weekly No Shit, Sherlock award - Climate change debate 'dictated by left-wing anti-capitalists', says Amber Rudd - Telegraph

'Climate change secretary says she can understand why people see tackling global warming as "cover for anti-growth, anti-capitalist, proto-socialism"

Left wing anti-capitalists have dictated the debate on tackling climate change and a Conservative approach is needed to prevent global warming, Amber Rudd, the energy and climate change secretary, will say on Friday.'

No Shit Sherlock 

More here http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/climatechange/11759619/Climate-change-debate-dictated-by-left-wing-anti-capitalists-says-Amber-Rudd.html

Jeremy Corbyn calls for end to 'silly remarks' by critics per BBC News who show that you can forget about those tricky science stories, their Arts graduates can't even write decent English...

Read this passage, spot the dreadful English?

'How does it work? If no candidate gets 50% of all votes cast, the candidate in fourth place is eliminated. Their second preference votes are then redistributed among the remaining three. If no-one has still not got 50% of votes the third place candidate is eliminated with their second preferences (or third in the case of votes transferred from the fourth place candidates) redistributed. It is then a straight head-to-head between the last two candidates with the one having the most votes winning.'

'If no-one has still not got... '

Not very impressive is it?

Original here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-33646068

The candour, humour and body swerve of a US president per BBC News

John Sopel doesn't hide his positive feelings for Barack Hussein Obama in this grade A suck up piece - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-33646545 I can't imagine a similarly positive piece about any Republican President.

One piece struck me for a different reason:

'"I am not a fan of discrimination and bullying of anybody on the basis of race, on the basis of religion, on the basis of sexual orientation or gender," he told me.'

This was re Africa. Which would raise an obvious followup question for an unbiased journalist - what about Saudi Arabia and other Muslim countries where non Muslims suffer because of their race and religion, where homosexuals are persecuted, sometimes fatally so, and where women are definitely second class citizens? Oddly this question was not asked by the BBC's Sopel, I don't know why...

Shin Lim fools Penn and Teller

Wow, now that's magic!

CWF Meets Jeremy Corbyn's Campaign Team at the Marxist Festival 2015...

Ho hum...

John McTernan 'Labour MPs are morons' for wanting Jeremy Corbyn

https://youtu.be/z-Wr0HCsaUA

I believe that Margaret Beckett has admitted being a moron for nominating Jeremy Corbyn. Not just for that, Ms Beckett who was the worst Foreign Secretary that I can recall.

Apollo 11 Lunar Landing - PDI to Touchdown 46 years ago

I still find it incredible that man landed on the moon

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Arctic summers ice-free within 5 or 6 years

This BBC report is absolutely shocking, an ice free Arctic within 5 or 6 years.

'Scientists in the US have presented one of the most dramatic forecasts yet for the disappearance of Arctic sea ice.

Their latest modelling studies indicate northern polar waters could be ice-free in summers within just 5-6 years.

Professor Wieslaw Maslowski told an American Geophysical Union meeting that previous projections had underestimated the processes now driving ice loss.

Summer melting this year reduced the ice cover to 4.13 million sq km, the smallest ever extent in modern times.

Remarkably, this stunning low point was not even incorporated into the model runs of Professor Maslowski and his team, which used data sets from 1979 to 2004 to constrain their future projections. In the end, it will melt away quite suddenly... '

That is a truly scary prospect, an ice free Arctic within 5 or 6 years. 

Hold on though, that report is from 2007 and 8 years on the Arctic isn't ice free. But scaremongering continues and now we are being told that the Arctic could be ice free by 2030. The trouble is that that's also the predicted year for the Maunder minimum so probably not an ice free Arctic then.

That BBC 2007 report also included this:

'"Our projection of 2013 for the removal of ice in summer is not accounting for the last two minima, in 2005 and 2007," the researcher from the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, explained to the BBC."So given that fact, you can argue that may be our projection of 2013 is already too conservative."'

More scaremongering here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7139797.stm

Arctic ice 'grew by a third' after cool summer in 2013 per BBC News

'But they say 2013 was a one-off and that climate change will continue to shrink the ice in the decades ahead.'

You've gotta have faith... because the facts just don't support the hypothesis.

More here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33594654

How Could We Have Known: The Jews Who Voted For Obama per The Jewish Press

'You want to tell me you really didn't know about Obama's hatred for the Jews and for Israel? Sorry, but I'm having trouble buying that story.'

It's all here http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/analysis/how-could-we-have-known-the-jews-who-voted-for-obama/2015/07/20/0/

Is John Kerry stupid or a liar?

If he believes that because "they're not allowed to do that", then Iran won't, then he's stupid. If he says it whilst knowing the true position then he's a liar.

Any other options?

#BBCtrending: What pilgrims showed the world from Mecca per BBC News - a vague acknowledgement of Saudi Arabian apartheid

The BBC report http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33572433 on the Haj and include this thought... 

'... the Saudi city of Mecca, a city typically closed to non-Muslims'

Apartheid? 'Typically'?

Shark Attack on Mick Fanning caught on film

Oh my...

Chattanooga attack: Gunman Abdulazeez 'sent war text' per BBC News

This BBC report http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-33581753 is full of the sort of mental confusion that you'd expect from a 'news reporting' organisation whose world view is crumbling.

Here are some long extracts from the BBC report with my comments.... 

' The night before a gunman killed five US service personnel in Tennessee, he sent a text message linking to a religious verse about "declaring war", reports say.'

A religious aspect, which religion? Maybe the BBC will deign to tell us.

'Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez also spoke out against conflicts in the Middle East, according to the Reuters agency.'

Well of course he did, and the BBC are desperate to hold on to that as the real cause.

'Police have said his motives are still being investigated.'

The police being almost as desperate as the BBC.

'His family said Abdulazeez, who was killed in a shootout with police, suffered from depression.'

Of course, and depressive people do go on shooting sprees?

......

'Meanwhile, Reuters and the New York Times say they have seen a text sent the night before to a friend linking to a passage of Islamic text - Hadith 38 - containing the verse: "Whosoever shows enmity to a friend of Mine, I will indeed declare war against him.'

So the religious aspect is Islam, that's a surprise from someone called Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez.

"Full text of Hadith 38

Allah the Almighty has said: "Whosoever acts with enmity towards a friend [wali] of Mine, I will indeed declare war against him. Nothing endears My servant to Me than doing of what I have made obligatory upon him to do. And My servant continues to draw nearer to Me with supererogatory [nawafil] prayers so that I shall love him. When I love him, I shall be his hearing with which he shall hear, his sight with which he shall see, his hands with which he shall hold, and his feet with which he shall walk. And if he asks [something] of Me, I shall surely give it to him, and if he takes refuge in Me, I shall certainly grant him it."

That verse doesn't like something that 'the religion of peace' would say, but what do I know.

'The friend, who requested anonymity, said he thought nothing of the text at the time, but now wonders if it was a hint at the attack to come.'

Well of course not. Who of us doesn't receive links to religious texts that declare religious war from our friends all the time?

'Other friends also told Reuters that Abdulazeez spoke of his anger about conflicts in the Middle East, including Israeli bombing campaigns in Gaza and the civil war in Syria, after returning from a trip to Jordan last year.'

Ah it's all Israel's fault, well that was always going to appeal to the institutionally anti Israel BBC.

'"He had always talked about it, but I'd say his level of understanding and awareness really rose after he came back," said one of the friends interviewed.'

'Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez needn't have travelled to the Middle East to raise his anti Israel consciousness, he could have just visited the BBC website where the works of Jeremy Al Bowen, Lyse Doucet and Jon Donnison would have had the same effect.

'They said he had purchased three guns online following the visit, and used them for target practice.'

But no alarm bells were raised by this?

.......

'It would be premature to speculate on exactly why the shooter did what he did," FBI agent Ed Reinhold said. "However, we are conducting a thorough investigation to determine whether this person acted alone or was inspired or directed."'

Of course, that religious text will be a red herring, how could it be of possible relevance? 

Iain's Perfect Response To Holocaust Caller per LBC

This post might surprise some...

This LBC piece http://www.lbc.co.uk/auschwitz-survivor-i-cannot-say-i-forgive-112962 runs:

'A caller tells Iain Dale that Jews should "get over" the Holocaust - until Iain's passionate response shuts him up.

Tom in Chelsea called after Oskar Groening, known as "the book-keeper of Auschwitz", was sentenced to four years in prison for being an accessory to the murder of at least 300,000 Jews.

He told Iain that Jewish people should stop going on about what happened under the Nazis in the 1940s - until the LBC presenter put him in his place. '

I'm actually partially in agreement with Tom from Chelsea. Not about Jews getting over the Holocaust, that's a vile and insensitive suggestion. But in relation to the way that the BBC and other media, as well as governments of all hues commemorate the evil of the Nazis whilst ignoring the greater numbers killed in the name of furthering communism by Stalin's Russia and Mao's China. The number of people still in the Labour Party and, presumably the BBC, who supported the Russian and Chinese communist regimes when, or soon after, they killed millions and imprisoned as many fills me with disgust. 

Until we recognise that the number of people killed by the left is something that we should take warning from, we leave ourselves open to it happening again.

The two hundred and sixth weekly "No Shit, Sherlock award" - Khamenei: Nuclear deal won't change our regional alliances

'The nuclear agreement with major powers will not change Iran's policy against the "arrogant American government" nor will it change the Islamic Republic's policy of supporting its "friends" in the region, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Saturday.

"The Islamic Republic of Iran will not give up support of its friends in the region — the oppressed people of Palestine, of Yemen, the Syrian and Iraqi governments, the oppressed people of Bahrain and sincere resistance fighters in Lebanon and Palestine… Our policy will not change with regards to the arrogant US government," said Khamenei.

His remarks were greeted by chants of "Death to America" and "Death to Israel" at a ceremony in Tehran marking the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, which was broadcast live on state television. '

More here http://www.timesofisrael.com/khamenei-nuclear-deal-wont-change-our-regional-alliances

Iran will continue to support Islamist terrorists and forment hate of the only majority Jewish state, no Shit Sherlock.

Why they lie to us, and keep on lying regardless of the evidence that disproves their lies

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."

Think...

EU Official: Migrant Boats Also Carrying ISIS Fighters per Breitbart

'EU OFFICIAL: MIGRANT BOATS ALSO CARRYING ISIS FIGHTERS
 

 by BREITBART NEWS
6 Jul 2015
 

 BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union's top prosecutor said Monday she has been told that smugglers' boats bringing migrants across the Mediterranean to Europe are also carrying Islamic State group fighters.

Michele Coninsx, head of the EU's judicial cooperation agency Eurojust, told reporters she received the information as part of the organization's efforts to help EU nations jointly respond to illegal immigration, terrorism and cybercrime.'

You could look to the British Broadcasting Corporation for coverage of this story but somehow I doubt that they'll be interested.

Instead look at Breitbart http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/07/06/eu-official-migrant-boats-also-carrying-isis-fighters/

Why agreements with the EU are worthless

From Guido Fawkes this morning:

'Conservative Party manifesto, May 2015:
"We took Britain out of Eurozone bailouts, including for Greece – the first ever return of powers from Brussels."

July 2015:
"Britain will be liable for close to £1 billion of emergency loans to Greece after Jean-Claude Juncker tore up a "black and white" deal to protect UK taxpayers from Eurozone bailouts."

This is why whatever renegotiation David Cameron says he's achieved will make no difference to Eurosceptics, they know that post a vote to stay in, the EU will do what they like and David Cameron will meekly acquiesce.

http://order-order.com/2015/07/16/camerons-greek-bailout-promise/

Chattanooga shootings: House searched after marines killed per BBC News

The BBC's Gary O'Donoghue has managed to name the Chattanooga gunman but is very quick, as I predicted, to label him a lone wolf. 

'The investigation is still at an early stage, but it appears that Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez was acting alone. What made him do what he did will be the subject of intensive inquiries that will delve deep into his past and that of his friends and family, and into his state of mind.But lone wolves, as such men are often described, are the hardest to stop.'

When does a lone wolf cease to be such? How many lone wolf attacks must there be before the BBC will admit that there is a common factor to these attacks? 

More here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-33562479

Tennessee Shooting Suspect Identified As 24-Year-Old Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez per TheBlaze.com

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — A U.S. official says the gunman in the shootings in Tennessee has been identified as 24-year-old Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez.'

More here http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/07/16/official-tennessee-shooting-suspect-identified-as-24-year-old-muhammad-youssef-abdulazeez/ but not on the BBC until they can spin this as a lone Wolf attack....

Chattanooga shootings: Four Marines killed at Tennessee US Navy centres - BBC News

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-33559853

No name of the perpetrator...

You do meet the most lovely people on Twitter

Today's total delight is

Dan Brimley @danbrimley

Telly Producer. Usually found under a pile of pitches. Full-time procrastinator, part time genius.

For this tweet...

I don't think Dan Brimley likes people pointing out that the BBC might just possibly be a little biased...

UK spare electricity capacity to fall this winter per BBC News

This BBC report http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-33527967 manages to warn of power shortages this winter but apart from this brief comment: ' EU regulations have forced older polluting power plants to close.' barely hint at the reasons.

Maybe the last Labour government and its obsession with replacing proper power stations with windmills might be partially to blame.Perhaps we could all ask Ed Miliband to pay our surcharges for us.

Doing deals to prevent nuclear weapons being manufactured by rogue nations works, doesn't it?

Watching the Barack Hussein Obama administration do everything it can in order to placate Iran and come to a deal, any deal, that at least appears to restrict Iran's march towards nuclear weapons reminded me of another US Democrat President doing similar.


Here's Bill Clinton from October 1994 on how his deal was going to stop North Korea's nuclear weapons programme. That worked out well, didn't it?

On October 9, 2006, North Korea announced it had successfully conducted its first nuclear test. An underground explosion was detected, its yield was estimated as less than a kiloton, and some radioactive output was detected.^[6][7][8]
On January 6, 2007, the North Korean government further confirmed that it had nuclear weapons.^[9]
In April 2009, reports surfaced that North Korea has become a "fully fledged nuclear power", an opinion shared by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Mohamed ElBaradei.^[10] On May 25, 2009, North Korea conducted a second nuclear test, resulting in an explosion estimated to be between 2 and 7 kilotons.^[11] The 2009 test, like the 2006 test, is believed to have occurred at Mantapsan, Kilju County, in the north-eastern part of North Korea.^[12]
On February 11, 2013, the U.S. Geological Survey detected a magnitude 5.1 seismic disturbance,^[13] reported to be a third underground nuclear test.^[14] North Korea has officially reported it as a successful nuclear test with a lighter warhead that delivers more force than before, but has not revealed the exact yield. Multiple South Korean sources estimate the yield at 6–9 kilotons, while the German Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources estimates the yield at 40 kilotons.^[15][16][17]

How stupid does Barack Hussein Obama think we are? What does he care if Iran gains nuclear weapons and can threaten or even attack Israel with them?

Jeremy Corbyn loses his cool.

Scratch the surface and what an angry little chap lies underneath. 

https://youtu.be/hOZZF5XCDBM

I do love the way he compares Israeli politcicians with the genoicidal Islamist terrorists of Hmas and Hezbollah.

French SWAT Team show their skills

Gunmen Holding 10 Hostages At French Primark

Sky report http://news.sky.com/story/1517980/gunmen-holding-10-hostages-at-french-primark that gunmen are holding hostages at a Paris Primark store.

Robbery that went very wrong or here we go again?

Half-naked stockbroker performed 'vigorous' solo sex act in Kensington Gardens toilet per Telegraph

Vigorous masturbating makes sense, vicious much less so... Different strokes for different folks (pun intended) 

'Court hears Thomas Boyd, 61, emerged from a cubicle 'viciously' pleasuring himself in front of a history lecturer

A retired stockbroker pleasured himself in front of a shocked American academic in the public toilets in Kensington Gardens, a court heard.History lecturer Dr Tom Sebrell was stunned to see a half naked Thomas Boyd, 61, emerging from a cubicle, jurors heard.

The former stockbroker was allegedly staring at the uncomfortable Dr Sebrell, who lives in west London, as he "viciously" performed a solo sex act.'

More here http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/11723959/Half-naked-stockbroker-performed-vigorous-solo-sex-act-in-Kensington-Gardens-toilet.html

Is the BBC biased?: The case for (some) walls

Is the BBC biased has a great article http://isthebbcbiased.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/the-case-for-some-walls.html pointing out the obvious truth that for the BBC, and others, building security walls to keep out Islamist terrorists is fine, unless the wall is built by Israel, in which case it's an apartheid wall

What was the weather forecast, I'll have to watch the video again - A Friday Night Rule 5 Post - NSFW

Apparently Mexican weather lady Yanet Garcia is an internet phenomenon, I have no idea why! 

Hamas violations of laws

'... Hamas has been guilty of far more violations of the laws of war and humanitarian law,  - 18 other violations by my count.

Using medical facilities and ambulances for military purposes. Booby trapping civilian areas. 

Fighting while not in uniform. Using the local population as human shields. Recruiting and exploiting children. Stealing humanitarian aid. Using the uniform of the enemy. Threatening journalists. Mistreating the dead.'

More here http://elderofziyon.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/hamas-commits-another-war-crime-but.html but not on the institutionally anti Israel BBC.

Tunisia to build 'anti-terror' wall on Libya border per BBC News

The BBC report that:

'Tunisia has announced plans to build a wall along its border with Libya to counter the threat from jihadist militants.

It would stretch 160km (100 miles) inland from the coast, and be completed by the end of 2015, Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid told state TV.'

Strangely the BBC aren't quite as upset by this anti terrorist wall as they are by the security fence and wall built by Israel to keep Palestinian terrorists out of Israel. I wonder why...

M25 brought to a standstill by illegal immigrants who jumped from a lorry per Daily Mail Online

A staggering story headlined:

'Moment M25 was brought to a standstill by illegal immigrants who jumped from a lorry and ran across eight lanes of traffic'

This is getting ridiculous...

More here http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3155087/M25-brought-standstill-illegal-immigrants-jumped-lorry-ran-eight-lanes-traffic.html#ixzz3fPtOzIrm

Struggling home from work thanks to the Tube strike? Here's something to sing along with - NSFW Language warning and some atrocious spelling in the on screen lyrics

Also £30k annual salary for a tube train driver? Behind the times, nearer £50k now.

You can trust Barack Hussein Obama and his team to break their promises on Iran and nuclear weapons

12 times...so far!

Lyse Doucet - Children of the Gaza War

I missed this programme last night, so will watch it now and (as live) blog it.

What am I expecting? Well as this is a BBC production and the BBC is 'unbiased by Charter', I am expecting a totally unbiased examination of the subject. Let's see...

We open on destroyed buildings and then a scene in 'Gaza City, July 2014' of a Palestinian ambulance being apparently attacked whilst being filmed. The screen goes black and then we see a smiling Palestinian boy who suddenly looks sad, then two girls as the doleful tones of the BBC's Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet are heard, what will she have to say? "More than 500 children were killed last year in a war between Israel and Gaza". I'd rather she had said Israel and Hamas but let's leave that aside.

"I was in Gaza then" - shots of a window being blown out of a building. 

Actually I can't keep this level of reporting and comment up, I do have to do some work today, so I'll back off a bit and just comment when I think I need to.

How sweet Lyse Doucet films a young Israeli girl saying "It's either us or them, so obviously it's them", I wonder if she'll show any Palestinian children expressing similar sentiments or leave this image in the viewers mind?

Cut to a Palestinian child reciting a poem... saying "Israel is massacring us" ... hold on that's what the subtitles say but let's listen again to the Arabic, now my Arabic is pretty poor but even I know that the Arabic for Israelis is something like Isr'ili whilst the Arabic for Jews is similar to Yahud. That boy definitely said Yahuda, maybe a mistake or is Lyse Doucet trying to make out that the Palestinians aren't saying Jews but Israelis? Maybe it's a one-off....

A overhead of the usual area of Gaza that is filmed by the BBC, Channel 4 etc., I suppose that luxury hotels, bustling full markets and beaches would give the British public the wrong idea. 

Some boys playing football, one tells a story about the beach. I can see where this is heading...The old canard about the Israelis deliberately killing some boys on a beach. A few minutes on Google would find the truth behind this story but this is a BBC Lyse Doucet production so I suppose there just wasn't time for any balancing narrative. 

More interviews and sad voices in Gaza. 

Lyse Doucet goes to Sderot, how will she report from here? Sderot has a lot of bomb shelters, indeed they do. "Kassam rockets are crude", indeed they are but does that mean that Israel shouldn't respond to the firing of thousands at Israeli civilians? 

Whilst the 12 year-old Israeli boy talks about the rockets that have hit near his house and the car that was destroyed the BBC show some (presumably home video) of the damaged car, the fact that the man looking into the car is smiling I am sure had no bearing on the BBC's decision to show this clip.

Lyse Doucet makes much of the fact that the Israeli children have to be no more than 14 seconds away from a bomb shelter. We leave the Israeli children playing on nice bikes, not too far away from a bomb shelter that Lyse Doucet helpfully points out has a TV in it and the the large collection of CDs. We return to Gaza, with Lyse Doucet riding through a destroyed area, I wonder if it is the same one as before.Plenty of shots of massive destruction for the viewer to compare with the minor issues in Israel.

"They even shell the schools with children inside"And Lyse Doucet reports on the shelling of a school. Lyse Doucet reports what the Israelis say but I think it's clear what she believes. This part of the report is quite a long one and is designed to engender sympathy with the Palestinians and hatred for the Israelis. The girl's mother is in an Israeli hospital, Lyse Doucet explains that by saying that it is "better equipped". 

We cut back to Israel, where a blond girl is choosing clothes to put into a suitcase. She has "too much stuff" and can "escape the war zone". Apparently they can go to the North of Israel which is safe, not if Hezbollah carry out their declared aim of killing all Jews but I suppose that's an irrelevant detail for Lyse Doucet. 

Lyse Doucet does mention "a tunnel"under an Israeli town and that destroying these tunnels becomes a priority for the Israelis. A few minutes there in a nice room, lots of pink and cheerfulness and then it's back to Gaza and a shot through a hole in a wall of a blue chair and a green bottle in an otherwise drab surrounding. 

"In Gaza there is no place to hide" This is interesting Lyse Doucet says that Hamas fires rockets from within civilian areas, she doesn't mention that this is against the Geneva Conventions but I suppose she hasn't time to report everything and editorial decisions have to be made.Lyse Doucet reports an Israeli claim but then reports the effect on the children. The poor boy gets upset and understandably so. 

The film now shows small Palestinian children holding weapons but the tone is one of understanding why they should do this. In case the British public has forgotten we get more shots of the same area of Gaza. 

We're back in Israel so there's colour and a car on a clean road. we're back in Sderot and there's green grass and a pink bicycle and all is normal and western. Anyone would think that Lyse Doucet was trying to give as an impression of how different life is on either side of the border. A few holes in the wall caused by shrapnel, what are these Israelis worried about? 

More shots of colourful Israeli home, children drinking and reading in comfort. I wonder what the next shot will be, for contrast? I was wrong it's of the result of a Hamas rocket attack on Israel, a four Israeli year-old boy was killed. But Lyse Doucet puts his death into context - he's the only Israeli child to die in this war, she's already told us about the deaths of many Palestinian children, it doesn't need to be repeated that would be too unsubtle. 

Some more from the Israeli mother and how the death of this one child has affected her. 

A truce is called because the Israeli child was killed, and Lyse Doucet reminds us that over 500 Palestinian children were killed (I guess is did need to be repeated, subtlety is not Lyse Doucet's strong point), the inference we are meant to draw is clear, for the Israelis one Jewish child is more important that 500 Palestinian ones.

More shots of Lyse Doucet driving through that area of Gaza with a kindly sad face. "More than 2,000 lives had been lost". She reports the Israeli and Palestinian claims and then something interesting:
"... didn't win the concessions Gazans wanted: an end to Israel's blockade, an opening of their borders with Israel and Egypt"

If Gaza has a border with Egypt then the Israeli land blockade would be useless as Egypt could just open its border with Gaza. So does this mean that Egypt is also blockading Gaza?  Hold that thought as I'll be posting an article I read a few weeks back but neglected to post at the time. It has relevance to both this Lyse Doucet programme and a tweet made by Channel4's Jon Snow yesterday.

Now we have some Palestinians talking, again with subtitles. Again a boy talks and says Yahud but the subtitle says Israel. That's twice now... Also the claim is that "... we know Israel wants to wipe out Gaza", a claim that is left hanging. It's not true but why let the facts ruin an anti-Israel claim? If Israel wanted to wipe out Gaza it could do so in about a month of non-stop bombing, Israel doesn't want to destroy Gaza but how should it respond to Hamas firing thousands of rockets at Israel? I wonder if Lyse Doucet will ponder that question.

Another claim from a Palestinian child is left hanging "They don't want us to grow up and kill them so they kill us when we are young". Another claim left as fact? Not even "Of course the Isrealis deny this"?

More images of Gaza and then it's back to Israel where their problems are reported but shown as not as dire in situation as in Gaza. More shots of colourful Israel. 

Back to the destruction in Gaza. A boy carrying a mattress and very mood music! The Palestinian family also move home but their home is in ruins not like the Israeli family's home. This is pretty obvious stuff from Lyse Doucet.... 

Palestinian children vowing revenge and then it's off to a Hamas children's military camp, its existence having been explained/excused by the actions of the Israelis. I wonder if Hamas held such camps before 2014? Before 2007? 

More video from the Hamas training camp. We get a subtitled translation of a speech "We're going to hit the enemy and God will help us"

A happy Gazan family reunites, money is the worry; I wonder if the family would have money if Hamas spent international aid on its [people rather than weapons, presumably Lyse Doucet will ponder that... she doesn't.

A contrast  between a Palestinian and an Israeli school at peace.

More from the Palestinian boy who lost his cousin/brother on the beach. Lots of him talking about what happened and sad images of his face. The Israeli claims were reported once, earlier, Lyse Doucet doesn't have to again and if she doesn't have to...

We see an undamaged market in Gaza but the fear is "another war". How or why one would start is not explored. Presumably because it will only start, in the BBC's mind, when Israel reacts to more Palestinian aggression. 

Palestinian children return to their home "hoping to fond some of their belongings". Please not a Damian teddy bear moment, not even Lyse Doucet would be that obvious.... \A sandal is mentioned but not seen, Some more shots of distraught Palestinian children in a destroyed building.

Now this is interesting, a grandfather remembers when there was an open border with Israel, contact and even friendship. Will Lyse Doucet say why this situation changed? No need, the grandfather does it for her "But our enemy is a criminal. They won't keep quiet and leave us be". Presumably Lyse Doucet will remind her audience that Israel's attack on Hamas in Gaza came only after thousands of rockets were fired at Israel, Jewish soldiers were killed and a Hamas tunnel into Israel was used for a terrorist attack.... No of course not.

The last words from that grandfather are odd: "The children's memories will not allow them to live in peace with Israel" are what the subtitles say, but I don't hear Isr'ili but neither do I hear Yahud, can anyone translate this line properly for me?

More mournful music and a child's voice again with subtitles "I hope God kills the Israelis" Except the girl clearly says Yahud... That's three times and so I invoke the Goldfinger convention: 'Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, the third time is enemy action'. What is Lyse Doucet and the BBC trying to do here, a Palestinian on three separate occasions (maybe four) says the Arabic for Jew but the subtitle says Israeli(s). Lyse Doucet and the BBC are trying to convince the British public that this isn't about hatred of Jews but just about Israel, maybe we should look at the Hamas Charter since they are the people who run Gaza and educate the children:

From the Introduction:

For our struggle against the Jews is extremely wide-ranging and grave, so much so that it will need all the loyal efforts we can wield, to be followed by further steps and reinforced by successive battalions from the multifarious Arab and Islamic world, until the enemies are defeated and Allah’s victory prevails

From Part One, Article Seven:

...the Hamas has been looking forward to implement Allah’s promise whatever time it might take. The prophet, prayer and peace be upon him, said: The time will not come until Muslims will fight the Jews (and kill them); until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees, which will cry: O Muslim! there is a Jew hiding behind me, come on and kill him! This will not apply to the Gharqad, which is a Jewish tree (cited by Bukhari and Muslim).

 From  Part Three, Article 15:

When our enemies usurp some Islamic lands, Jihad becomes a duty binding on all Muslims. In order to face the usurpation of Palestine by the Jews, we have no escape from raising the banner of Jihad.

 From Part Three, Article 20:

The Nazism of the Jews does not skip women and children, it scares everyone. They make war against people’s livelihood, plunder their moneys and threaten their honor. In their horrible actions they mistreat people like the most horrendous war criminals. Exiling people from their country is another way of killing them. As we face this misconduct, we have no escape from establishing social solidarity among the people, from confronting the enemy as one solid body, so that if one organ is hurt the rest of the body will respond with alertness and fervor.

 From Part Four, Article 28:

We cannot fail to remind every Muslim that when the Jews occupied Holy Jerusalem in 1967 and stood at the doorstep of the Blessed Aqsa Mosque, they shouted with joy: “Muhammad is dead, he left daughters behind.” Israel, by virtue of its being Jewish and of having a Jewish population, defies Islam and the Muslims. “Let the eyes of the cowards not fall asleep.”

 From Part Four, Artcle 32:

Within the circle of the conflict with world Zionism, the Hamas regards itself the spearhead and the avant-garde. It joins its efforts to all those who are active on the Palestinian scene, but more steps need to be taken by the Arab and Islamic peoples and Islamic associations throughout the Arab and Islamic world in order to make possible the next round with the Jews, the merchants of war. “We have cast among them enmity and hatred till the day of Resurrection. As often as they light a fire for war, Allah extinguishes it. Their effort is for corruption in the land, and Allah loves not corrupters.” Sura V (Al-Ma’idah—the Table spread), verse 64.

Hamas's war is not Israel but with Jews; it's in their Charter, it's in their words in Arabic and it's in their educational system. The children saying Yahud don't mean Israel, they mean Jews. That might offend Lyse Doucet who might prefer to believe that it's a mistake, if she even checked the translation provided to her but that's a fact.

The girl continues "When we grow up we're going to kill them. May God kill all of them, every last one." Sad music plays... Remember the words of Hezbollah's Hassan Nazrallah "If they (Jews) all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide." This is about Jew hatred not Israel.

Now we see two Israeli children looking at the destruction in Gaza, they are accompanied by Lyse Doucet. Will they promise to kill all Palestinians? What will Lyse Doucet get them to say to finish the programme with something as shocking as Palestinian children saying that they "hope God kills the Jews"?

Lyse Doucet talks to the Jewish children about "girls and boys on the other side who were also scared". I note that she didn't have a similar conversation with the Palestinian children, tricky when they "hope God kills the Jews"? 

The little Israeli girl says that "They are the homes of people that want to kill us", well that's true, including children who "hope God kills the Jews". And we finish with her saying "It's either us or them., So obviously it's them". The camera lingers on a shy smile from the girl, will that image and words satisfy Lyse Doucet? 

Lyse Doucet talks to camera and talks about the increase in Israeli border security and a "wall of hostility, of suspicion and fear". Nice use of the word wall to make people think of the Israeli security wall on the west side of the Jordan river. No examination as to why the Israelis had to increase security, maybe because Hamas not only spoke about killing all Jews, they tried to. Lyse Doucet fears for the future...

There's more, and we're back with on of the Palestinian boys. A boy that has changed his mind and no longer wants to be a fighter. He wants to "drive them out" by other means, maybe by making a documentary with the BBC's Lyse Doucet,m for an hour of anti-Israel images is worth more than one boy and an AK47. No he wants to surprise them with his education and inventions.Lyse Doucet asks him if he wants the war to come back, he doesn't. 

We now see a Hamas flag and the makeshift graveyard. We contrast to the bright colours of Israel and the words from Lyse Doucet that "no rockets have landed in the kibbutz since the ceasefire", have they landed at any other ones Ms Doucet? 

Some images of the Israeli side of the border with Lyse Doucet looking sad at the acceptance by the little girl of war as a reality. She is much happier at the new mother's hopes of peace. We have a barmitvah in Israel, he's now a man which contrasts with the BBC's reporting of the deaths of Palestinians in Gaza where 20+ year-olds are reported as children. 

Now we contrast the barmitzvah's glitz and modernity with the Palestinian children playing in a dusty street. Lyse Doucet thinks that the children grow up too soon but leaves us with a crying Palestinian mother and her children. 

Apparently another war is coming, and there have been three in six years already but nest not tell the British public who started these wars Lyse Doucet? 

Another reference or more to "the beach", Lyse Doucet isn't going to let the viewer forget that part of her narrative. 

The piece ends and we get some BBC contextual information. First that both sides were found responsible for war crimes by a UN Inquiry. The second one I will quote in full:

"In May and June there were more rounds of rockets fired from Gaza and Israeli airstrikes". 

 I would say that would be better worded:

"In May and June there were more rounds of rockets fired from Gaza leading to retaliatory Israeli airstrikes". 

That's the end of the programme and my feelings are pretty much that Lyse Doucet presented just what I expected she would. A pretence of impartiality and even-handedness but in reality the programme was designed to raise sympathy and support for the Palestinians of Gaza and to increase anti-Israel feelings. But above all, what struck me was the way that at least three times the subtitles said Israel or Israelis  when the words said Jews has really shocked me. The Palestinian children said that they "hope God kills the Jews". It looks like I will have to raise yet another complaint with the BBC...