Is Attacking Gaza Really About Hamas Rockets?

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• Is attacking Gaza really about Hamas rockets? 
  by Stuart Littlewood, http://www.redressonline.com/ 
  The words below are printed on a T-shirt I sometimes wear. They cut through the propaganda crap straight to the true cause of the latest unpleasantness in Gaza.
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  “They stole my land, burnt my olive trees, destroyed my house, took my water, bombed my country, imprisoned my father, killed my mother, took my job, starved us all, humiliated us all, But I am to blame: I shot a rocket back. So they stole more of my land, burnt my olive trees, destroyed my house, took my water, bombed my country….”
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  This morning (Sunday 18 November) the BBC continued its descent into the journalistic cesspit, pushing the Israeli line on the atrocities being committed in the Holy Land. You only needed to see BBC One’s “Sunday Morning LIve” which matched an incoherent Palestinian newspaperman against Charlie Wolf, an obnoxious import from Boston, USA. Nobody touched on the underlying causes, not even the presenter, Samira Ahmed. It was ignorant and shambolic, yet on the basis of this encounter viewers were invited to vote whether the Israeli bombing was justified.
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  “Offensive pillock”
  According to Wikipedia, Wolf during his talkSPORT show in 2005 described Rachel Corrie (the American activist murdered by an Israeli military bulldozer in Gaza) as “scum”. Ofcom, the British communications regulator, ruled his remark was in breach of the “Generally Accepted Standards” section of the Broadcasting Code and said it was “seriously ill-judged”.
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  Why would the BBC hire such an offensive pillock if it intended to provide a reasoned and balance debate? I certainly object to having the likes of Wolf beamed into my home on a Sunday morning, or any other morning, by our fee-snatching national broadcaster.
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  I hear that when the poll result was announced 56 per cent voted “No” and 44 per cent “Yes” to the question “Are Israeli military actions justified?”. The programme’s website now states the results “are not available to the public at this time”. The plot thickens!
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  But it’s not so difficult to figure out when the Controller of BBC One is Danny Cohen, a Jew.  Such a surprise. According to the BBC:
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  – Cohen is responsible for the overall direction of BBC One.
  – This includes its strategy, the ideas that are developed and all programmes that are commissioned to be transmitted on BBC One, both on television and online.
  – He also oversees the scheduling of the programmes.
  – As creative leader, Cohen determines BBC One’s editorial policy, priority, style and presentation based on analyses of target audience needs.
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  And he’s paid over GBP 250,000.
  An earlier BBC One offering this morning, the “Andrew Marr Show”, had General Mike Jackson calling Hamas what they actually are – guerrillas. He deliberately avoided the well-worn and inaccurate propaganda slurs such as “militants” and “terrorists”. If you call them that, what names are left for the Israelis? I wonder if he’ll get his knuckles rapped.
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  Marr made his leanings clear by saying: “From a military perspective people have to remember how small Israel is and how open to rocket attack…” without mentioning Gaza’s much greater vulnerability by not only being tiny, impoverished and overflowing but having no military to speak of at all
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  Israel wants the entire Holy Land and Gaza’s gas
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