BBC News and the word 'controversial'

The BBC here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-30340579 report on a restriction on immigration in Australia and use the word 'controversial' to describe the policy:

'The Australian parliament has approved changes to immigration laws that include reintroducing controversial temporary visas for refugees.'

Oddly Barack Hussein Obama's pro immigration policies are not described as 'controversial'. 

It seems that 'controversial' policies are only ones that the BBC disapproves of.

Harry's Place » 800,000 missing Jews: Guardian ‘refugee’ history includes glaring omission.

The Guardian like it's broadcast partner the BBC is so anti Israel that facts are forgotten in the need to blacken Israel's name.

The refugee story of Israel and the Palestinians in 1948 is just one example.

More here http://hurryupharry.org/2013/07/25/800000-missing-jews-guardian-%E2%80%98refugee%E2%80%99-history-includes-glaring-omission/

Must read article including analysis of refugee numbers around the world, including Palestinian 'refugees'

'Statistics provided by the UNHCR at the end of 2010 put the total number of refugees in the world at 15.4 million – of those, 4.82 million Palestinians. Of the 10.58 non-Palestinian refugees, 3.05 million are from Afghanistan and 1.7 million from Iraq.

However, the UNHCR does not include in its refugee figures Internally Displaced Persons, and in that category it placed a further 27 million people in 2010 – mostly from Libya, the Cote d’Ivoire, Somalia and Sudan. UNRWA, of course, does not count Palestinian refugees living under Palestinian rule in the Gaza Strip (1,167,572 in January 2012) or the Palestinian Authority-controlled territories (727,471 in January 2012) as repatriated refugees or IDPs. 

Uniquely, those Palestinians remain refugees because unlike the UNHCR, which constantly strives to reduce the number of refugees and DIPs and which in 2010 repatriated 197,600 refugees to their countries of origin and resettled 98,800 more in other countries, UNRWA has not made any effort since its establishment to reduce the number of Palestinian refugees either by resettlement or by ending the hereditary status of refugees of Palestinian origin. And of course like the Arab dictatorships which Lindsey German and her fringe organization support, she has nothing to say against the manipulation and exploitation of Palestinian refugees for political purposes.'

http://bbcwatch.org/2012/12/30/bbc-gives-air-time-to-stop-the-war-coalition/

Jews are a peculiar people

It's an interesting and thought provoking sentiment, but not one that the BBC will recognise the truth of.

The myth of 'Arab East Jerusalem'

The BBC line on East Jerusalem is normally a form of the following:

'The Palestinians want East Jerusalem as the capital of a future state. It was captured by Israel from Jordan in 1967. Israel subsequently annexed the land and declared all of the city its undivided capital. The move is not recognised by the international community.'

This makes it seem as though pre-1967 East Jerusalem was, and always had been, under Jordanian control and that Jerusalem had always been split into a Jewish West and Muslim East. This is of course a lie. East Jerusalem had been under Israel control from 1948 and was only captured by Jordan in 1967. Whilst under Jordanian control, East Jerusalem was barred to Israelis, synagogues were destroyed and the Western 'Wailing' Wall, the holiest remaining site in Judaism was used as a toilet. Contrastingly, since 1967 Muslims are allowed to pray in their mosque on top of the Temple Mount, and indeed Israel has ceded control of this site to Islam.

Jerusalem was never divided into a Jewish and Muslim half except between 1948 and 1967, here is a history for you to watch and learn from


So why does the BBC push this lie? Would explaining the truth about israel mean the BBC having to accept that there were Jewish (as well as Muslim) refugees in 1948?

Tuesday morning catch-up

Too many tabs open and not enough time to do them all justice so:

1)

'Britain’s public spending cuts are less severe than those in other European countries, an analysis has found.

As a percentage of national output, public spending in the UK will fall by less than the average for the 17 Eurozone countries.

The news that the cuts are less harsh than those our neighbours are experiencing has fuelled criticism of the BBC, which has often been accused of exaggerating the extent of the cuts without explaining why they are necessary.'

for more read this Mail article but don't bother waiting for the BBC to report it.


2) Sila explains why she had to pretend to be a Muslim, in Germany, but now has to show she's not because she posed nude for Playboy - Isn't multi-culturalism marvelous.


3)

'Refugees fleeing conflict in Libya are gathering in Calais in an attempt to enter Britain. '

That's the unsurprising news in The Telegraph. Now why would these people be so keen to come to the United Kingdom?

'“It is very difficult to get on the train, but I dream of England,” said Mohammed, who arrived in Calais on Tuesday after fleeing the war in Libya, where he was a migrant worker from Chad.

“Maybe I will hide, but I hope to find a way to get there somehow. England is a great country where I can have my human rights.”'

And, presumably, benefits.


4)

'A convicted terrorist banned from Britain for being a risk to national security has been stopped from being deported by the courts.'

Because a convicted terrorist's rights seem to trump those of innocent British people. The Telegraph has more, I doubt that the BBC has.


5) A cartoonist has discovered that lampooning George W. Bush was fine but lampooning Barack Obama is not so easy to sell:

'Ted Rall's cartoons and opinion pieces were all the rage when he was attacking George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and American soldiers.

But now that there's a man in the White House the press absolutely adore, the once syndicated polemicist claims he's having a hard time getting anyone to publish his work:

In the past, editorial rejections had numerous causes: low budgets, lack of space, an editor who simply preferred another creator's work over yours.

Now there' s a new cause for refusal: Too tough on the president.'

News Busters has the details.


6) It seems that college students might be getting brighter in the USA:

'A recent informal survey of 500 post-grads primarily between the ages of 22 and 28 — 83 percent of whom voted for President Barack Obama in 2008 — found just 27 percent of Obama’s previous youth supporters plan to vote for him again, The Daily Caller reports. That’s a drop of almost 60 points.

In contrast, of those who voted for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in 2008, a vast majority — 80 percent — said they would vote GOP again. An 80 percent majority of those newly disillusioned by Obama said they would consider voting for a Republican in 2012, too.'

Hot Air has more details.


7) Before you visit the Maldives for your 'holiday in paradise' please read this:

'Keep in mind that the Maldives constitution does not permit citizenship to non-Muslims and a U.S.-based Muslim group gave Maldives FM the “Muslim Democrat of the Year” award in part for denying non-Muslims citizenship. Upon receiving the award, the FM stated:

I’m very happy to be named Muslim Democrat of the year.

For now I’m very happy to be in a 100 per cent Muslim country having achieved homegrown democracy.'

Creeping Sharia has more, I doubt that the BBC has.


8) Next Big Future reports that:

'Harold Vinegar, the former chief scientists of Royal Dutch Shell, has devised an ambitious plan that would, if successful, turn Israel into one of the world’s leading oil producers. Now chief scientist for Israel Energy Initiatives (IEI), Vinegar maintains that the 238 sq km Shefela Basin holds the world’s second largest shale deposits outside the United States, from which around 250 billion barrels of oil – about the same as Saudi Arabia’s proven reserves, could be extractable. IEI estimates the marginal cost of production at between US$35 and US$40 per barrel. That, says Vinegar, would be cheaper than the US$60 or so per barrel it would cost to extract crude oil in more hospitable locations such as the Arctic, and even favourably with the US$30-US$40 in Brazilian deepwater. '

It always seemed a bit unfair that Israel had hardly any oil reserves when its neighbours dis. Of course Israel did have oil reserves whilst it had the Sinai peninsular but gave that back to Egypt in return for peace. I wonder how long before Egypt, Lebanon and the Palestinians claim the gas/oil is theirs?


9) The Mail seem shocked that female teachers are human beings outside of the classroom.

'Disgrace of the six drinking, pole-dancing primary school teachers who published the pictures on Facebook'

Seems like a complete non-story to me as the teachers were not in school, in loco parentis at the time or in any way linkable with the school at the time the photos were taken.


10) if you watched Gordon Ramsey in Malaysia last night; yes she did say "clittoral plant" and yes they do exist. To save you looking one up on Google, where the plant is not the first image returned, here's a picture

Here's what Herb Exploration have to say about the plant:

'Butterfly pea (Clitoria ternatea, Fabaceae) has large, deeply blue flowers that are used to give a bluish hue to desserts in Thailand (anchan, anjan [อัญชัน]) and Malaysia (bunga telang). In our days, it is mostly substituted by synthetic food colourants. '

The Forgotten Refugees

I know that I have blogged about this subject before, most recently here and here but until I can get back to proper blogging here's some video to get you thinking. Do please pass it onto any BBC propagandists that you know.

The video is The David Project's 'The Forgotten Refugees'

Part 1 sets out some background and explains what Islam means by a dhimmi in principle and in practice. Also the incidence of anti-Semitic hatred before 1967 and indeed 1948. The tales of Jews in Iraq strike many chords with me. However what I find very interesting is that the linkage between the Mufti and Hitler is repeated. This set me thinking as many of those on the left who even now attack the Daily Mail for having supported Hitler in the 1930s & therefore as being beyond the pale are quite happy to support the Palestinians whose leaders are the followers of people who fought alongside Hitler....

'A film about the mass exodus of Jews from the Middle East and North Africa in the 20th century

Produced by The David Project for Jewish Leadership and Isra TV, The Forgotten Refugees explores the history, culture, and forced exodus of Middle Eastern and North African Jewish communities in the second half of the 20th century. Using extensive testimony of refugees from Egypt, Yemen, Libya, Iraq, and Morocco the film recounts the stories - of joy and suffering - that nearly one million individuals have carried with them for so long. The film weaves personal stories with dramatic archival footage of rescue missions, historic images of exodus and resettlement, and analyses by contemporary scholars to tell the story of how and why the Jewish population in the Middle East and North Africa declined from one million in 1945 to several thousand today.

The Forgotten Refugees has helped raise awareness about this important period of Jewish and world history; an issue which has been tragically ignored in the media, world politics, and educational programs. On June 19, 2007, a fifteen minute version of The Forgotten Refugees was shown before the United States Congressional Human Rights Caucus, which convened for a special hearing on the mass violations of human rights of Jews under Islamic regimes in Arab Countries throughout North Africa, the Middle East, and the Gulf Region.

On March 31, 2008, the first-ever Resolution recognizing the rights of The Forgotten Refugees was adopted by the United States House of Representatives. The Resolution asks the President to ensure that when the issue of Middle East refugees is discussed in international forums, U.S. representatives will ensure that any explicit reference to Palestinian refugees is matched by a similar explicit reference to Jewish and other refugees.

The Forgotten Refugees has been screened at over twenty international film festivals, a dozen of television stations and numerous synagogues, churches and campuses. The Forgotten Refugees won the award for Best Documentary at the 2007 Marbella International Film Festival and the Best Feature Documentary Award at the 2006 Warsaw Jewish Film Festival.'

Part 2 explains why 'Jews are the dogs of the Arabs' and tells some horrific tales of anti-Jewish pogroms in Libya. Compare the tented camps that the Jewish refugees to Israel built & moved out of to the the refugee camps that the Palestinians still live in because their Arab brethren would rather they suffered so as to be a stick with which to beat Israel. Look also at the figures for how many Jews lived in Iraq in 1944 compared with 2004 (144,000 to 14), Egypt (80,000 to 40), Algeria (140,000 to 80) and Yemen (55,000 to 100). As well as the so called Jew friendly North African countries which certain British Jews think are trendy to visit: Morocco 285,000 to 5,000, Tunisia 105,000 to 1,500 and on and on and on.



It seems that the Jews who lived in Arab countries, many of whom were expelled from their homes, losing all their property and much of their possessions made a new life in Israel and so are forgotten by the world whilst the Palestinians who left their homes so the Arab armies of 1948 could destroy the newly reborn Israel still live in refugee camps and occupy so much of the attention of the world's media and trans-national organisations.


I have compared the way that Palestinian refugees are treated with those of other conflicts before but here is an extract from a speech that I think covers much of the same ground in an interesting manner:

'At the end of World War II, there were 50 million refugees. Today, all the refugee problems dating from before the 1950s have been solved. All, except one — the problem of the Palestinians.

Why did this problem not get solved? The reason is simple: Because the Arab countries did not allow it to get solved. And because Islam does not allow it to get solved.

In May 1948, the number of Jews in the Arab countries was estimated to be close to 1 million. Today, fewer than 8,000 Jews are left in the entire Arab world. In 1948, the Arab countries forced the Jews out and confiscated their properties. More Jews fled the Arab countries than Arabs fled Israel. Where are the Jewish refugee camps? There are none.

So, why are there refugee camps for Palestinians in areas surrounding Israel? Because the Palestinians were not welcomed in the neighboring Arab countries. There was no Arab solidarity; the refugees were forced into camps and slums, where many of their descendants still linger today.



Instead of blaming the inhospitable Arab regimes, many blame Israel.

Neisse rivers, the Hungarians who fled Transsylvania, the Greeks who were ejected from the Aegean coast of Anatolia, the Hindus who fled the Punjab.

With each generation, the resentment of these refugees and their descendants slowly fades away. Time heals all wounds. Acceptance of the new situation is the norm.

Islam, however, conditions Muslims to hate Jews. It is a religious duty to do so. Israel must be destroyed because it is the homeland of the Jews.

Influential Islamic scholars, such as Muhammad Tantawi, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar in Cairo, the most prestigious center of Muslim learning, call Jews “enemies of Allah.” Tantawi, who died last March (this speech was given in December 2010), was generally considered a moderate by the Western media and policy makers. But how did this “moderate” address a delegation of Palestinian Muslims who visited him in 2002?

He urged them to intensify suicide attacks against Israelis, stating that every so-called “martyrdom operation” against — I quote — “any Israeli, including children, women, and teenagers, is a legitimate act according to [Islamic] religious law, and an Islamic commandment, until the people of Palestine regain their land.” — end of quote.

Nizar Qabbani, one of the most revered poets in the Arab world, praised the madness of those who are blinded by an ideology of hatred. In his poem Ode to the Intifada, he wrote: “O mad people of Gaza, A thousand greetings to the mad. The age of political reason has long departed. So teach us madness.”

That is the nature of the Islamic enemies confronting the Jews — sheer madness.

Israel, on the other hand, is a beacon of light; it is like a Hanukkah menorah whose lights have been kindled in a region that until 1948 was engulfed by darkness.

Friends, Israel is not to blame for the situation in the Middle East. The problem is Islam’s rejection of Israel’s right to exist. Only last month (November 2010), Fatah concluded its convention in Ramallah by declaring its blatant refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish state.'

The speech was given by Geert Wilders in Tel Aviv in December 2010 - thanks to Gates of Vienna for the spot.


Next week London's School of Oriental and African Studies will be showing the above film, Point of No Return has details of this, I predict problems as SOAS students seem to be almost as anti-Israel as those at the LSE. Oy Va Goy also has some interesting  thoughts on this matter.