Miscellaneous Thoughts

A) CBC actually has a reporter of Palestinian origin, Naylah Ayad. Today she is reporting on the coming referendum in Scotland. Here is someone who is able to see through the Zionist narrative and present a Palestinian perspective, which other CBC reporters seem totally incapable of doing. Why is she reporting on Scotland?

B) CBC is proud that they show their objectivity by not calling all Hamas fighters, "terrorists". CBC would not, of course, use the words "freedom fighters", but compromises by calling them "militants." This is fine as far as it goes, but look how often CBC quotes Israeli sources using the words "terrorists" to describe their enemy. Is CBC being disingenuous here - refraining from saying it themselves, but making sure the propaganda message gets across by frequently quoting Israelis using the word "terrorist."?

Here is an example, but there are dozens of them in earlier weeks, from August 26th:

In an email message to The Associated Press, military spokesman Lt. Col. Peter Lerner said the strikes were "a direct result to Hamas' decision to situate their terrorist infrastructure within the civilian sphere including schools, hospitals and highrise buildings."

Retired Israeli air force brigadier general Shlomo Brom, now a fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, said he was doubtful that the highrise structures had been targeted solely because of their middle-class makeups.

"I have no doubt that these buildings were hit primarily because they contained offices or other facilities that belonged to Hamas," he said.

CBC does not bother to clarify that Hamas is the elected government of Palestine, and has been active in providing social services to the suffering citizens of the territory, and that the "infrastructure" the Israelis are attacking is the infrastructure of the Gaza Government. Nice touch, CBC, to let an Israeli describe it as "terrorist infrastructure." That makes it OK to destroy the government infrastructure of the territory, doesn't it?

CBC - More Zionist than Zionists

Desmond Tutu, a Nobel laureate and international personality, made an impassioned plea to Israel to be held accountable for its crimes in Palestine and supported the BDS movement. This plea has been repeated in many world media, including in the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz:

http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/1.610687

But CBC would not publish it. Instead CBC published an article by the moron Jon Voight in which he accused critics of Israel's massacre in Gaza as being anti-Semitic, an absolutely absurd charge.

How could CBC consider the statements by the non-entity, movie actor Jon Voight more relevant and worthy of publication than the words of Desmond Tutu? Indeed, how can this be explained?

Even Israeli media are willing to give the other side a voice, but not CBC.

CBC Israeli Propaganda Mouthpiece

On August 25th, more crap:

Israel-Gaza conflict: PM Netanyahu warns Gaza residents after apartment destroyed

Netanyahu's tough talk signals bolder strikes against Hamas

Why does CBC use the word "bolder"? There is nothing bold or bolder about Israeli strikes. They are as cowardly as it is possible to be. They are bombing literally defenseless people. How can CBC use the word "bolder"? CBC should describe them as more "barbaric", or more "cowardly", or more "inhumane", but "bolder"? Ridiculous.

It is sickening. Do the reporters at CBC speak English or only Hebrew?

Hamas "Demands"

CBC always has lots of room to quote Israelis, especially when they justify their massacre in Gaza, but why has CBC not bothered to report on what it calls Hamas' "demands"? The following is by Gideon Levy of the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz:

Read the list of demands and judge honestly whether there is one unjust demand among them: withdrawal of Israel Defense Forces troops and allowing farmers to work their land up to the fence; release of all prisoners from the Gilad Shalit swap who have been rearrested; an end to the siege and opening of the crossings; opening of a port and airport under UN management; expansion of the fishing zone; international supervision of the Rafah crossing; an Israeli pledge to a 10-year cease-fire and closure of Gaza's air space to Israeli aircraft; permits to Gaza residents to visit Jerusalem and pray at the Al-Aqsa mosque; and an Israeli pledge not to interfere in internal Palestinian politics such as the unity government; opening Gaza's industrial zone.

These "demands" are simply the demand for a normal, decent life. By not reporting them,CBC can continue the Israeli propaganda stance that Hamas is an unreasonable enemy whose demands must not be tolerated. Is the word "demand" real appropriate to describe an appeal to be given a decent life and have one's human rights respected. Do we really need to "demand" human rights or are they supposed to be granted without being demanded?

But CBC clearly stated the Israeli demand - that Hamas must disarm. This is the unreasonable demand, because Israel has made not commitment to stop its campaign of creeping ethnic cleansing against Palestinians. Israel is saying that Hamas must disarm, but Israel can continue kill Palestinians with impunity. The West Bank is effectively disarmed and the Israeli killing, house demolitions, and checkpoints and humiliation have never stopped there. Israel is demanding the same IMPUNITY in Gaza. How reasonable is that?

Also it is interesting to note here that Israeli newspapers, like Ha'aretz, give a more balanced reporting on the Israel/Palestine conflict than does CBC. There is something very strange about the fact that CBC cannot even meet an Israeli standard of impartiality, and must be so imbalanced toward the Zionist perspective.

All the Israeli Propaganda Fit to Print

Here is the headline on August 24:

Renewed Israeli airstrikes signal escalation in fight with Hamas

This is perfect Israeli propaganda. CBC says Israel, the country, is fighting Hamas, the political party.

The reality is that Israel the country is not fighting a political party, it is fighting an occupied territory - the occupied country of Palestine.

Israel wants to pretend they are fighting a political entity, but they are killing Palestinians who voted, democratically, for the Hamas political party.

Why does CBC let Israel write their headlines for them?

If the entity being fought in Gaza is just a political party, then for balance (something alien to CBC on this issue) they should write that Likud, the elected Israel government, is fighting Hamas.

Repeating Lies

This is CBC on August 25th (comments are embedded in italics):

A new round of Israeli airstrikes and tank fire pounded Gaza on Monday as officials in the coastal strip said two more Palestinian civilians died from the violence.

• Hamas admits kidnapping 3 Israeli boys, setting off Gaza war
• Airstrike kills 3 Hamas military leaders

----- Here again in the Related Links is that LYING headline. CBC must repeat it over and over in good propaganda fashion to properly serve its Zionist masters. Hamas NEVER "admitted" to setting of the Gaza war. That would be absurd. The fighting began as an escalation of violence that was heavily skewed to Israel doing violence against Palestinians over periods of months, and years and decades. THAT PERPETUAL ISRAELI VIOLENCE IS WHAT set off the fighting, not the fact that the Israelis took a major hit for a change with the 3 teenagers. When CBC says Hamas admits setting off the war, it is a bald-faced LIE.

There has so far been no end in sight for the war, which has already killed more than 2,100 Palestinians since the fighting erupted on July 8. On the Israeli side, 68 people have been killed, all but four of them soldiers.

The Israeli military said it carried out 16 airstrikes on Gaza early Monday, targeting a mosque it said was used to store weapons and another it said militants used as a meeting point.

Gaza police said one of the Israeli strikes hit the home of Omar al-Bursh, a Hamas justice ministry official, who was not harmed in the attack. Another airstrike severely damaged the departure lounge at Gaza's border crossing with Egypt, police said.The military also said that Palestinian militants from the densely populated strip fired 10 rockets into Israel on Monday, all of which landed in open areas.

-----CBC might have pointed out here that Israel is targeting non-violent government officials as a part of their ethnic cleansing campaign.

A 42-year-old woman died from tank fire in the north of the Palestinian territory, while a 22-year-old man died from his wounds on Monday after being hit in an airstrike in Gaza City shortly before midnight, Gaza health official Ashraf al-Kidra said.

The latest exchanges came a day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that the Israeli military campaign in Gaza could go into September.

Since the fighting began, Israel has launched some 5,000 airstrikes at Gaza, while Gaza militants have fired close to 4,000 rockets and mortars, according to the Israeli military.

-----Here CBC goes again, pretending the Hamas rockets are balanced by Israeli strikes. These numbers are meaningless at best, but more likely misleading because comparing Hamas rockets to Israel's advanced weaponry is like comparing sling shots to grenades. If CBC wanted to provide meaningful statistics it would publish over and over again that Israel has killed 500 children versus one killed by Hamas. Israel has injured 10,000 people compared to a dozen in Israel. These would be meaningful statistics.

Abduction by Hamas

The Gaza war stems from the abduction and killing of three Israeli teens in the West Bank by Hamas operatives in June, which triggered a massive Israeli arrest campaign in the West Bank, followed by an increase in rocket fire from Gaza. In an apparent revenge attack, a Palestinian youth was seized and slain in early July.

-----Here again the LIE in a sub-heading and in the text. Yes, over and over does the propaganda job. CBC should get a bonus payment from Israel.

Israel first launched an air campaign July 8, then sent in ground troops nine days later. It says it is targeting sites linked to militants, including rocket launchers, command centres and weapons depots. The UN says about 75 per cent of the Palestinians killed have been civilians.

Several rounds of indirect talks in Cairo between Israel and a Palestinian delegation that included Hamas have collapsed, along with temporary ceasefires that accompanied them.

Speaking to his Cabinet Sunday, Netanyahu said the public must show patience. "I said on the first day of the operation that it could take time and we are prepared that this campaign might continue even after the start of the school year," he said.

While the Israeli public has widely supported the campaign to halt rocket attacks out of Gaza, the government has come under criticism for its inability to stop the fire and anger has risen, especially following the death of 4-year-old boy who was killed in a Palestinian mortar attack Friday.

So Israelis are being asked for patience because one child was killed, and CBC thinks this is worth reporting. But why does CBC not address the issue of the 500 Palestinian children that have been killed? Why doesn't CBC try to explain the phenomenal "patience" of the Palestinians who have seen 500 of their children killed? The REAL NEWS is WHY do the Palestinians keep fighting when the odds are so severely stacked against them!!!

Is CBC's lopsided reporting because of one of these reasons?

1) CBC is racist and thinks Palestinians are not as human as Israelis, so they do not mourn their children as much?

2) Is CBC avoiding having to report how brutal and cruel the 67 year occupation of Gaza by Israel has been, and that the Palestinians are willing to fight, even against such terrible odds, because the alternative to not resisting is submitting to the creeping ethnic cleansing that Israel has been carrying out against Palestinians for all these years. Just like in the Warsaw Ghetto, perhaps the Gaza people have decided an honourable death is better than the "living death" the Israelis have subjected them to. 

CBC would never want to speculate like this because it would make CBC's beloved Israeli occupier look bad, and that would be anti-Semitic, wouldn't it?

Missing Statistics?

CBC is reporting on the renewed fighting after the ceasefire talks ended.

It gives details of two Israelis that were slightly injured by Hamas rockets, and reports on a few of the killings of Palestinians by Israeli bombs.

However I understand from friends in Palestine, that up to 100 Palestinians have been killed by Israel since the ceasefire ended.

So where is this statistic: 100 killed by Israel versus 2 slightly injured by Hamas?

Are details about injuries to Israelis more relevant to CBC's readers than deaths of Palestinians? Probably, yes to all those who share CBC's racist perspective but not to most Canadians.