THE BBC SHOULD BE TRIED FOR WAR CRIMES
by Emanuel A. Winston
June 21 2001

    The BBC (British Broadcast Company) should be tried for war crimes against the Jewish people. The BBC has for a long time used their world wide network to disseminate hostile and inaccurate propaganda against the State of Israel. This propaganda incites others to hate and kill Jews. Therefore, the BBC should be tried for war crimes.

    Their latest foray comes in the form of a vicious misrepresentation in a TV program calling for the Prime Minister of Israel, Ariel Sharon to be tried as a war criminal. Reading the transcript of this concoction of carefully adjusted semi-facts demonstrates a deep bias and willingness of the BBC to use raw propaganda to support a fallacious documentary. (1)

    Apparently, the BBC forgot that when Arik Sharon sued TIME Magazine for libel for accusing him for responsibility in the murders at Sabra and Shatilla, Sharon won.

    A senior BBC correspondent, Faid Abu Shimalla in the Gaza Strip is reported to have told a Hamas gathering that journalists and media organizations are "waging the campaign shoulder-to-shoulder together with the Palestinian people". (2)

    Since the BBC has never identified any Arab leader in conflict with Israel as a war criminal or terrorist, clearly, their expertise seems shallow, if not biased in the extreme. In each of six wars, Arik Sharon fought these Arab leaders and their proxies who proclaimed they would destroy the Jewish State and push the Jews into the sea.

    Any other interpretation of these wars without reported the Arabs’ intended and self-proclaimed Genocide, would be a deliberate lie. Yet, the BBC, having the primary documents in their archives, never called for war crimes’ trials for any of the Arab leaders. These desperate attacks, pledged to eliminate the Jewish State were printed in bold, screaming headlines in every Arab newspaper, month after month and year after year.

    Moreover, soldiers under Syrian, Iraqi, Iranian leadership implemented torture and murder for most of the captured Israeli prisoners of war. The BBC has in its possession all of this and much more but chose to ignore even their own files. The BBC chose NOT to broadcast in detail or screen any pictures of these hideous practices wherein captured Israeli soldiers were cut to pieces in a display of their zealous radical Islamic fervor.

    The BBC has proven itself to be an anti-Semitic organization, deserving of no pity. They are fast approaching the operational policy of Der Sturmer, Josef Goebbels favorite news outlet which similarly prepared the minds of the people to accept and participate in Genocide.

    The BBC ignores the fact that Arik Sharon was a soldier who had to fight against the Arabs to defend his country in six wars initiated by the Arab nations who intended to exterminate the Jews and the Jewish State. He also fought against Arab Terrorism with no holds barred.

    The BBC’s twisting of facts or leaving out of facts is and remains their M.O., Modus Operandi. As an anti-Semitic organization, the BBC promotes incitement against the Jewish State. It’s not that the BBC likes the Arabs, it’s just that they have a greater visceral hatred for the Jews - as least at the staff level.

    The BBC seems to be part of the always present British anti-Jewish policy. We all know and recall how the Brits had the information early on in World War II, that the Germans had instituted the Wannsee policy of exterminating all the Jews in Europe and the Soviet Union. But, we now know that the British, as a matter of policy decided at the highest levels of the British government (political and military), did absolutely nothing about it. They sat on the information. They spiked it.

    We all recall the Arabist policy of the Brits to appease the Arabs by using their war ships to intercept desperate Jews, fleeing the graveyards of Europe and then by keeping the Jewish war refugees in their own concentration camp on the island of Cyprus after WWII. The British military, the British aristocracy have been the visceral enemies of the Jews back into the Middle Ages. Therefore, it’s no surprise for the BBC’s executives, editors, reporters to carry the same virus of anti-Semitism as did/does most of the British hierarchy.

    The BBC is one of the Media institutions that plague the world with the evil incitement of Israel’s enemies to greater levels of aggression - but always under the thin cover of "reporting the news" and the public’s "right to know".

    I wonder why Israel has not instituted a law of Truth in Reporting. For those media outlets who roam freely around Israel with approved credentials and drip poison into the public airways, I would simply boot them out. Warn them once, then withdraw their press credentials and cancel their visas. In Arab nations or in the areas that Yassir Arafat controls, the Media is not allowed to wander about without the risk of arrest, severe beating or worse. The Media have always abused Israel’s democratic freedom of the press to the point of being a volunteer extension of terrorist propaganda.

    We Jews have a deep experience with the Media who prepare the minds of ordinary people to accept killing of Jews as a noble attribute. This is not speculation! These are hard historical facts, backed up with libraries of documentation, photos and video. The Brits have always been users and elegant trash. They are sneaking deceivers and never to be trusted when it comes to life and death vs. profit and power.

    The facts left out of the BBC broadcast include some of the following: Sharon cleaned out the PLO who had caused a 12 year Civil War killing more than 100,000 Lebanese civilians. Then, as now, there were incessant terror raids into Israel, resulting in atrocities of major proportions. The Christian Phalangists went in to get those PLO still hiding in the 2 refugee camps, using the civilians as human shields. The Americans gave Yassir Arafat safe passage with his other terrorists and their personal guns to exile in Tunis, Algeria.

    NPR (National Public Radio) did a 10 year anniversary broadcast of Sabra and Shatilla called "The Night of the Long Knives". Why did they use that name? The Christian Phalange took revenge for the Muslim Palestinians’ brutal killings of Christians and the murder of the new President of Lebanon Bashir Jemayel a Christian Lebanese. They mostly used knives so they couldn’t be heard while they were killing the men they found in the camp.

    So, having the BBC attacking Arik Sharon who went into Lebanon to wipe out terrorists is actually a badge of honor. Why is the BBC using this vicious documentary now? Is it calculated to weaken Ariel Sharon now when he is trying to control the terror attacks which Oslo set loose?

    Under Ariel Sharon, Israel declared a unilateral cease fire - despite Arafat’s terrorists continuing their ongoing war of drive-by shootings, bombs, grenades, suicide bombing, artillery firing into apartments, etc. Even after the June 1st horrific suicide bombing at the Tel Aviv beach that killed 21 Israeli teens, mostly girls, wounding more than 120 (some maimed for life), Sharon kept this cease fire. Many in Israel feel he should have at least disarmed the Palestinian Authority of their stockpiles of illegal weapons such as anti-tank and anti-aircraft shoulder-fired missiles, Kalashnikov rifles, Katyusha rockets, RPGs (Rocket Propelled Grenades), explosives, and tons of ammunition for its illegal 85,000 man Para-military force.

    Is the BBC showing this documentary now to weaken Sharon in the eyes of the world, the world’s leaders and the Israeli people when they need to be united in Israel’s defense?

    It is said, we are known by our enemies.
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"The Accused" Transcript of BBC Panorama documentary 6/17/01 Palestinian Media Watch

2. "Hamas: BBC reporter expressed solidarity:" by Douglas Davis JERUSALEM POST: Online News from Israel 5/24/01
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Emanuel A. Winston is a research associate of the Freeman Center For Strategic Studies.

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