Posted on December 15, 2007 by Dave
“Often, events told a different story: for example when that angry crowd set alight a soldier as he scrambled out of his armoured vehicle - the single best known image of the British in Basra - and not one of the city’s 20,000 police came to help.”
As I recall this was after two SAS soldiers [...]
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Posted on September 13, 2007 by Dave
“This is a very dangerous provocation little short of wantonly violating the sovereignty of Syria and seriously harassing the regional peace and security.” spokesman for North Korea’s Foreign Ministry from the Fanonite
“Maybe Israel decided to send the Syrian government a message that it would understand. ” BBC News
Excellent journalism from the BBC again. Regional peace is [...]
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Posted on September 2, 2007 by Dave
BBC facts and figuresfrom the Lebanon conflict. Seems like blatant propaganda to me.
Notice the percentage for Lebanon is of the TOTAL POPULATION displaced. Whereas when we look at israel its the percentage of the NORTH TOTAL POPULATION. So we have two percentage figures which at a glace make it look like there was a bigger factor [...]
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Posted on May 7, 2007 by Dave
The war began on the 12 July 2006 after Hezbollah fighters abducted 2 Israeli soldiers and killed 8 in a cross border raid.
Source
Again the BBC is following the Israeli Governments timeline of events “the war started on the 12 July 2006.” An unbiased source would call the 12th the day Israel dramatically escalated [...]
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Posted on April 12, 2007 by Dave
Professor Ilan Pappe is one of Israel’s acclaimed New Historians who debunked the idealized Zionist version of the Jewish State’s history and exposed that massacre, rape and dispossession of the native Palestinians that attended its foundation. Prof. Pappe is an advocate for a single secular democratic state in historic Palestine with equal rights for Jews [...]
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Posted on January 18, 2007 by Dave
BBC facts and figures from the Lebanon conflict. Seems like blatant propaganda to me.
Notice the percentage for Lebanon is of the TOTAL POPULATION displaced. Whereas when we look at israel its the percentage of the NORTH TOTAL POPULATION. So we have two percentage figures which at a glace make it look like there was a bigger factor [...]
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