Because dead Israeli Jews aren't newsworthy at the BBC

The BBC have been in full two-minute hate mode in their coverage of the latest judicial instalment of the story of the unfortunate and accidental death of the 'peace campaigner' Rachel Corrie. In all the interviews with Rachel Corrie's family and representatives of the anti-Israel International Solidarity Movement I did not hear any interviewer ask the questions 'Were there any arms smuggling tunnels underneath the family home that Rachel Corrie was trying to protect?' and 'Did Rachel Corrie know that there were  smuggling tunnels underneath the family home that she was trying to protect?'. I think we all know why the BBC would never ask such a question.

Bearing in mind the amount of coverage that the BBC have accorded to the death of Rachel Corrie, how much coverage have they ever given the deaths of these other Rachels?

'Some of the forgotten Rachels: 

Rachel Levy (aged 17, blown up in a grocery store)

Rachel Levi (19, shot while waiting for the bus)

Rachel Gavish (killed with her husband, son and father while at home celebrating a Passover meal)

Rachel Charhi (blown up while sitting in a Tel Aviv cafe, leaving three young children)

Rachel Shabo (murdered with her three sons aged 5, 13 and 16 while at home)

Rachel Ben Abu (16, blown up outside the entrance of a Netanya shopping mall)

Rachel Kol, 53, who worked at a Jerusalem hospital and was killed with her husband in a Palestinian terrorist attack in July a few days after the London bombs.

Rachel Sela, 82, murdered the day before Purim on March 4th, 1996 when an Palestinian suicide bomber exploded at Dizingoff Center, Tel Aviv.

Rachel Tajgatrio, 83, murdered while shopping in Jerusalem's "Machaneh Yehuda" market when 2 bombs went off on July 30th, 1997.

Rachel Thaler, 16 years old from Ginot Shomron died of her wounds on February 27 2002, after a Palestinian bomber exploded in a shopping mall's food court, killing 3, wounding 30.

Rachel Tamari,  61, murdered by a Palestinian bomb on the Dan #20 bus in Ramat Gan, on July 24, 1995.  6 Israelis died in that attack, and dozens were wounded.

Rachel Drouk, 35, mother of 7 from the Shilo community was murdered by Palestinian terrorist gunfire while on her way to a demonstration (October 28, 1991) -- that negotiating with Palestinian terrorists would be dangerous to Israel.  The driver of her car, Yitzchak Rofeh was also killed and 5 others wounded.

Rachel Weiss, 26, pregnant and mother of 3 small children (Rafael, Netanel and Efraim), were all murdered by Palestinian terrorists who threw a molotov cocktail at her car in the Jordan Valley (October 31, 1988)

Rachel Weiss, 69, stabbed to death by Palestinian terrorists who were sent by Sheikh Ahmed Yassin to as an "entrance test" to the Hamas organizations.  She was murdered in her home in Moshav Shapir, August 3rd, 1988.

Rachel Munk, 24, [married 6 weeks earlier] was murdered in a drive-by terror attack by on July 26, 1996, along with her husband Zeev Munk.  The attack took place on the Beit Shemesh - Kiryat Melachi road near Moshav Gefen.

Rachel Stern, 8 years old,  stabbed to death, along with her mother, while eating breakfast in their home in Kiryat Shmona, on April 11, 1974.  16 people were murdered that day by Palestinian terrorists in that attack.

Rachel Afita, 16, murdered by Palestinian terrorists in the Northern Israeli community of Maalot on May 15, 1974

Rachel Lev, 50, murdered by Palestinian terrorists when 5 bombs exploded throughout the Haifa area on October 23, 1969.  7 people were killed in the attack, including her husband Eliyahu and son Avraham.

Rachel Mizrachi, 38, stabbed to death by Arab terrorists in her home in Tiberias, October 2, 1939.

May their memories be blessed.'

Most of these Rachels have never merited more than a one line on the BBC, if that. None have had the manner and circumstances of their deaths examined in such detail as was accorded the death of Rachel Corrie. Yes Rachel corrie was British and thus to the BBC's eyes her death was more newsworthy but do these Rachels really deserve to die with their deaths unrecorded on the BBC?

I suppose that as with the vile murder of the Fogel family each of these murdered Rachels might have been killed during a 'very busy news period' but somehow I doubt that was the reason for the Rachels or the Fogel family. The real reason is clear to anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear.


Thanks to The Muqata for the list of murdered Rachels.