Posted on 11/12/2004 1:58:48 PM PST by quidnunc
An astonishing milestone was reached on British television recently. Few will have noticed, because of the late hour of scheduling and because of the avalanche of American election-geared specials.
Jonathan Dimbleby, a well-known British broadcaster, presented a two-part program entitled ‘The New World War’ about the global war on terror. What made the documentary unique is that he used his medium to provide a sympathetic profile of Hezbollah.
Anyone who knows even the sketchiest of facts about Hezbollah will be aware of the decades of violence and terror the group has generated in the Middle East. Some say the insurgency in Iraq is being funded and directed by Iranian Hezbollah. In his special, Dimbleby goes through the obligatory mantras about the starving, displaced Palestinians ‘yearning to return’ to their homeland wrested from them by the Jews in 1948. No mention is made of the United Nations or of the Shoah. You can be sure that if a British broadcaster is setting about devising a program about Israel, there will always be an introductory narrative about the tens of thousands of Palestinians forced from their land or fleeing for their lives from the legions of rapacious Jews supported by the United States and by world Zionists.
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The British media never cease to amaze me. The portrayal of the Israeli-Middle East situation is perpetually biased, and in the case of this week’s Dimbleby series, alarmingly provocative. He set out to show, for ninety compelling minutes, the terrible poverty and desperation engendered by Israel over its Palestinian neighbors in fifty long years. Never once did Dimbleby mention the horrendous toll amongst Israelis in fifty-odd years of wars and relentless terror. Never once did Dimbleby mention the corruption and avarice of Arab leaders.
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He's associated with The Guardian----that says it all.
As someone who really loves the UK(I've visited 5 times) I am so disappointed.Just a personal thing but I'll never feel the same way about the place.
The BBC is more foul than even CBS, ABC and NBC. Who knew?
What you sat is true, but this wasn't on the BBC.
The stench of antisemitism that exudes from the body of the BBC is almost as strong as that coming from Arafat's corpse
But isn't Dimbleby one of their presenters?
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