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Wednesday, May 7 2008The BBC's Birthday Present to IsraelJeremy Bowen's documentary is full of omissions and historical revisionism. See HonestReporting's latest communique: The BBC's Birthday Present to Israel
TrackBackTrackBack URL for this entry: Listed below are links to weblogs that reference The BBC's Birthday Present to Israel: CommentsWhat do you expect from the BBC, fair reporting on the Middle East. It is a public body staffed by the We are all Hisbollah Now leftie do-gooders. Jeremy Bowen has NEVER reported fairly on the situation and is probably actively supported by the production team! Bowen's program continues his own and the world's anti-Jew spin on the situation in the Middle East. The Palestinians have way less history in the region and yet they are held up as the rightful "owners" of the land that is the home of Jewish State. Bowen was a very poor selection to host this "documentary" AND his placement is indicative of the BBC becoming the European equivalent of FOX News! It is all appauling. I am surprised Bowen did not try to deny the Holocaust itself! That's usual direction the spin heads. I am an American Jew and I feel that much of Europe has turned its back on Israel. Considering the victims of the Holocaust were killed on their land/their watch it makes it even harder to fathom. Jeremy Bowen: You are not a true journalist. Maybe you are more of a novelist! You are an enemy of the Jewish people. An excellent 'fisking' of Bowen's documentary. It is a shame that he will get away with his omissions and distortions as he has in the past - simply because the Beeb is untouchable in its lofty arrogance and the complaints procedure is woefully inadequate. Well its time to sue the BBC, and to uncover who is in control of this network, could it be that some Arabs have their way with what is produced on the BBC. Maybe the government needs to be investigated to find out who is being influenced by in Arabs in an illegal manner! Perhaps Honest Reporting members will not be surprised that thirteen people of my acquaintance had to be asked before one of them came even close to knowing either the world population of Jews today or the overall percentage (50% )of the Jewish population annihilated during the holocaust. While this may seem incidental to your efforts, I believe the numbers could be used positively to affect the perspective of many people who are not hostile but who sit indifferently on the fence on the Israeli question. Thanks. JM You expected maybe HONESTY from the BBC, the product of unwed canine mothers? (I think I cleaned that up pretty well) Here in the good old USA, most of the people with whom I converse with concerning Israel are a thousand percent PRO-Israel and view disgusting and repulsive "reports" as just that, disgusting and revolting. Each individual that had a part in that lying production should be sued by the State of Israel for slander. Only when those people begin to feel it in their pockets will that kind of tripe come to a screeching hald. I fault ISRAEL AND EVERY OTHER ENTITY THAT REFERS TO THOSE ARABS AS PALESTINIANS! They are ARABS...get it? They are NOT Palestinians, never were, never will be no matter what they call themselves. Arafat was a blasted EGYPTIAN! Most of the Arabs who call themselves what they do were from Syria, Jordan, Egypt and other parts of the Arab world. Any so-called "reporter" who pukes out screed should be stripped of their credentials and be banned from the State. Why is that not happening? The Arabs are wonderful in one respect ONLY...lying. Their religious books tell them that lying is not only permissible, but it is a saintly thing to do whenever possible. lying formed the basis of their PR campaigns while Israel just sat back on their high and mighty rear ends and did nothing to counter it. Repeat THEY DID NOTHING TO COUNTER THE SCREED THAT WAS TOSSED IN THEIR FACES AND NOW THEY ARE REAPING THE REWARD FOR THINKING THAT BY KEEPING THEIR YAPS SHUT THEY WOULD WIN THE UPPER HAND. Angry? Me? You bet your booty I'm angry. My blood pressure just went from 120/60 to 190/78, too high for a post-stroke patient. But MY getting angry won't do a blasted thing except let me blow off some steam here. ISRAEL has got to learn to scream louder and longer and with PROOF of what is happening: And they've got to get rid of the offspring of unwed mothers. If the Jeremy Bowen documentary has been shown on British TV, certainly somebody must have recorded it? I must see it before I can submit a criticism to the BBC complaint section. ve have the FCC and could possibly obtain equal time to dispute these falsehoods and possibly obtain a judgement for libel. The Hon. Mr Gillerma should present this to the UN which is busily engaged being a propaganda outlt for Ior Israel^s enemies. Lets point out home times Jerusalem Apeears in our Bible as opposed to the Koran. Our job is to act and not React, Kol Tov I saw Bowen's report on Israel's 60th independence day. Mr. Bowen is very reluctant to consider facts that are inconvenient for him (the ultimate intellectual dishonesty). as a non-jewish dutch woman I combat Ilan Pappé, a lier about history, the inventer of etnic cleansing bij Israel. Bowen is influenced by him, I suppose, for Pappé promotes this sort of boycots against Israel. Perhaps the BBC needs money and is payed as a traitor? If not then the BBC retires from this kind of stuff immediately. Bowen's claim that Haganah's "Plan D", concluded during the British Mandate had anything to do with "ethnic cleansing" is but a malicious lie. I participated in it, scouting the village of Saffouria in the Galilee (the Jewish fortress that, according to Josephus Flavius, stood in Rome's way 2,000 years ago) There were plans for all levels of Arab threat. Plan D was the worst case scenario, where a contiguous territorial enclave was to be held in order to survive. No one ever anticipated this to happen during the British Mandate but it did, starting November, 30, 1947, the day after the UN passed the Palestine partition resolution. As a member of the Palmach I participated, since December, 1, 1947, in convoy running between Jerusalem and the coast, passing through a string of Arab villages whose armed militias did, in the end, close the noose around Jerusalem's 100,000 Jews, denying them water, food and means to defend themselves. Maybe instead of explaining ourselves to these modern nazis who would like nothing better than to klll the mainder of the Jews, we should "go on the offensive" and drag them through every court in Great Britain and elsewhere. Keep them so busy that they would not have time to vent their hatred of Jews. Great Britain should look inside itself. the Empire is slowly but surely sinking into oblivion. Wait till Sharia Law takes them over.Who's going to have time to diss the Jews??
As a Brit who loves Israel I just want to apologise for the BBCs constant bias against Israel. This has been going on for a long while now and is becoming more blatant. Please don't think all Brits think or speak this way. There are many who care a great deal for Israel and her people. You are really sick people. First, you occupy some one else's land, drive its inhabitants away, kill them, plunder their wealth, make them pay for no fault of theirs; then you call your airstrikes and bombings as defence and their faltered rocket attacks as terrorism. If you quote history to claim a right over this land, then you should know that you would be driven out once again, as has been the norm throughout history. You are the chosen people, not for anything good, but because you are the chosen tyrrants that history has never come across. The summary didn't mention (so I assume the program didn't mention) that the mandate was given to Britain to form a Jewish homeland. Britain then gave more than 80 percent of it to the arabs, forming Jordan. It is interesting that you should quote Benny Morris when attacking Jeremy Bowen's report (which, to my shame I missed). You all forget that billions of Muslim Arab $ are at work in GB and the BBC has a propaganda role to play to keep this money coming to GB. It sounds like Jimmy Carter wrote the story with the usual slant and blame game. It is too bad that the BBC allows itself to be used or does the story follow BBC policy; I suspect that latter. Abba Eban said: the Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss and opportunity and they have done so over and over in the last 60 years. At 9AM in Raleigh, NC, the local NPR station broadcasts BBC news with its frequent anti-Israel bias. How disheartening for our own NPR to air this! The BBC lost all credibility on any issue involving an Islamic exponent many years ago. As far as the BBC is concerned it is far more important to understand the motives of an Islamic terrorist than report their attrocities. Mr. Bowen, all I can say is you have a lot of hate pent up inside of you. If you have been mistreated by an Israeli please show some mercy. It's the arabs that do not want peace. They are vindictive and extremely jealous. It's a shame no one criticizes their leaders as the real culprits. It easy to cast blame but hard to forgive. Thank you, Richard Bowen also forgets that the Jews were expelled from England in 1290. Who knows how many of those Jews ended up in what is today Israel. The BBC had a nasty little interview on their US radio station this morning too, with an Israeli Arab who doesn't think Israel is providing him with equal rights. The BBc follows a long legacy of selective memory and selective reporting. Not all the world is aware that the British were those who blockaded the shores of israel, turning away ships loaded with holocaust survivors to new camps in Cyprus. So the legacy of pro-Arabism is alive and well in Eurabia... Unfortunately, Britain is up for a rude awakening when they will realize in whose hands they are playing. I. Daskal M.D I believe Israel made a PR blunder by not stating that this their 60th year instead of proclaiming that this is 3000 plus 60 of Israel birthday. Many people world-wide think that the Jews dropped into Palestine and took it from the Arabs.By proclaiming 3000 plus 60 over and over it will sink in and will counter the bias against Israel over time. It will not hurt to proclaim 3000 plus 60. I WISH TO COMMAND HONEST REPORTING FOR THEIR EXCELLENT EFFORTS ON OUR BEHALF. THIS ILLUSTRATES THAT IT IS NOT OUR SIXTIETH BIRTHDAY THAT WE CELEBRATE/BUT OUR 4060TH/AND I HOPE 'BH' MANY MORE Perfectly balanced? No. But I can't help but feel your article is far more unbalanced than the programme itself. 'Honest' reporting? - yes I think it was. OK, Jeremy Bowen did betray the fact that his sympathies were not always with the Israelis from time to time,but it was not in any way as unbalanced as you suggest. Certainly not Israeli propaganda, but a dispassionate viewing would not see it as Palestinian propaganda either. This is nothing less than a PLO tract paid for by the citizens of England. It is amazing that in our age of sensitivity to blatant discriminatory reporting, the trash that Bowen conjures up can be produced by the State owned BBC! What next, a BBC production of the Protocol of the Elders of Zion? This is pure anti-Israel propaganda that hizbollah's al-manar could proudly show on their television. And as the history of the region pre-dating Israel's re-birth is simply made up by Bowen, it is anti-Semitic as well. Scholars who are even mildly anti-Jewish should be shocked by his turning history upside down! Perhaps Bowen's next assignment will be to 'prove' that there was no Temple on the Mount and Judaism is a false religion. After all, that is what his PLO comrades postulate and it seems he takes his 'facts' straight out of PA history books- also paid for by the EU I might add. Bowen proves that if Germany beat England in 1940, there would be many Brits quite willing to point out Jews to their new masters. I'm disgusted. I think if I said what I'd really like to say and what everybody else is thinking, I'd be arrested. Dishonest, arrogant and egotistical don't even come close to what Jerem Bowen is. I think I vomited in my mouth a little when I read this article. I have come to the terrible conclusion that no matter what people will falsify Israel and the Jews. There are some nasty people out there who spew garbage such as this Bowen character and although I will not be able to stop them all on my own I am glas honest reporting has created a platform where we can all ban together to hopefully have a more powerful influence. I believe any person that supports the Pals. next door are just mad like they are since nobody else wants them in thier contry either but they are not going to bomb there own muslim brothers. Israel is our land since the time of Adam and Eve. Come on people even Jesus was a Jew and there are deniers out there who want to say we are immigrants to the land. I guess they have been asleep for a long time... damn those dinosaurs! We know the truth! Our blood runs through to the core of the Earth on Israels soil. We will prevail. Isreal is out home, our heart and there is no option to fail! I am appalled at the biased reporting of Jeremy Bowen of the BBC. As Canadian Christians and evangelical and pentecostal, we are not Jewish, but very definitely do we pray for and support the claims of the people of Israel to the land that was taken from them in the dispersion. That Mr. Bowen should misrepresent the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which was never fully implemented by the British government, is nothing short of astonishing. The succeeding governments of Great Britain will much to answer for in their reneging of their early promise of land to the dispersed people of Israel. In Canada, our own government has to answer for their turning away of the St. Louis ship during the Second World War, sending many Jews to death in the Holocaust. I do hope that someone will be able to talk some sense into Mr. Bowen so that he gives at least a balanced coverage of the present crisis in the Middle East. He should read and study an excellent book by Joan Peters entitled "From Time Immemorial". It examines the origins fo the Arab-Jewish Conflict Over Palestine. It was published by Harper & Row in 1984. Philip Johnson I am outraged with Jeremy Bowen's falsehoods about Israel. Why did the BBC allow him to make this documentary- I have concluded that the BBC is biased, & must have Arab backing- I will no longer watch anything BBC airs on TV. Honest Reporting certainly makes telling arguments against the BBC's "reporting." But alas, if one reads the Letters to Editor in the current issue of The International Jerusalem Post, a number of correspondents make the point that there are very confused (self hating?) prominent UK Jews (including a Kaufman MP and the Chief Rabbi) who are either providing grist for the BBC mill, or alternatively,swallowing the lies and So what's new? When are the English returning Scotland and Wales to the Scots and Welsh? Getting them out of Ireland and India was a bloody mess. Such tedious, boring people. No matter what happens, the Jews are the villains, but Englishmen walk on water. Disappointed with this article simply because it's reference points are vague and need to be explained in more detail. The details used to explain Jeremy Bowen's article seem clearer then the ones used to refute his point of view. The reason Europe turned its back on Israel is simply to clean it's concious. And if Europestan think that the more they will suck up to the Arabs the better off they will be, I have news for them: the more you try to upease them, the more they think you are weak, and the more they will demand of you. Israel needs no friends but One. The BBC seems intent on not being One's friend.My prayer is for the well being of Israel. Mr Bowen, You forgot to say something about Israel's national anthem - or might that have been too much to bear? “As long as deep in the heart It is not new for me that Mr. Jeremy Bowen does not or does not want to understand the israeli palestinian conflict. BBC represents the voice of UK as VOA does the voice of America. Britain has forgotten the lesson of its traitorous treatment of Israel in the events leading up to 1917,a crime and a sin which has seen PAX BRITANNICA "the empire on which the sun never set" meeting its fate as a nation plunging into the dying embers of a setting sun. Not only that, USA as an extension of the former British Empire, is also fast fading into its own sunset because of Bush's persistence for Israel to give up its land for a Palestinian State. Why can't the oil-rich Arab states absorb the Palestinians, with all the talk of Islamic brotherhood and solidarity? Whilst deploring the Jeremy Bowen/BBC documentary I have not heard or read any denial of the supposed massacre in a mosque perpetrated by Jews-any truth or information on this would be welcomed. I am not condonning this incident if true but it in war regtable incidents happen even today. Why has not the Balen report been published?Supposed to be an impartial review of the BBC handling of M.E. politics. Having read all the comments - many of them very hateful to my surprise - I'm left somehow dumbfounded. How is it possible to be so dis-informed in today's age of information? What the readers/subsribers of (dis-)honest reporting are spreading, is nothing else but outdated zionist propaganda from the 80's. I recommend strongly, to read as a starter: "The Origin of the Palestine-Israel Conflict, THIRD EDITION (including Intifada 2000), PUBLISHED BY JEWS FOR JUSTICE IN THE MIDDLE EAST. The conflict could have been easily avoided, if the Zionist Enterprise of Herzl and the world at large would have followed the countless petitions which were brought forward at the Damascus Conference of 1919. Petitions by Christian, Jewish and Muslim residents alike to turn Palestine into a State (similar to a Commonwealth) for ALL inhabitants. With bi-lingual education for ALL. With one common past and future history for ALL. Void of attrocities committed against each other. Read the King Crane Commission Report incl. Annex. But the Zionist Enterprise didn't want to listen. Read what Asher Ginsberg (Ahad Ha'am) had to say in 1889 (!) in "The Wrong Way" and how he warned of the dire consequences if one would steal the land from the residents. He is just one of the countless warners throughout history up until today. But the ZE wouldn't listen. Read what our revered Martin Buber said time and again. But it fell on deaf ears. Why do we ommit from our memory, that we did not follow the UN Charta and we did not respect the Balfour Declaration? Why do we ommit from our history, that the Arabs offered a comprehensive total peace at the Lausanne Conference in 1949? A peace offer which failed because of Israel's "intransigence" - original text, see also protocol of the conference and UN-Archiv. What was the fate of the countless peace offers? The King Fahd Plan 1980? The offers of 1982 – the Fez Plan; Reagan Plan; Brezhnev Plan? The Shultz Peace Plan 1988? Madrid and Oslo I 1994? Oslo II 1995? Wye-River Memorandum in 1998? Tenet Offer 1998? Mitchell Report which Israel vehemently refysed? Sharm El Sheikh Agreement 1999? Camp David II Summit 2000? Taba 2001? The Roadmap 2002? The offer of the Beirut Conference - the Saudi Peace Initiative 2002? The Geneva Accord? Israel signs after long discussions and changes - and before the ink is dry on the paper it breaches what it just signed. The settlements pop up like mushrooms after the rain, the targetted killing continues with fresh fervor, the annexation advances ... What about the many ceasefires, which the Palaestinians - incl. Hamas - adhered to while they were daily bombarded and the targetted killings went on unabatted? The last one lastet for 17 months while Israel continued its murderous policy. Why do we cancel from our memories, that "Occupation is the disease, violence is the symptom". Have we forgotten, what our forefathers tought us? Read the Fateful Triangle by Noam Chomsky - yes, you must call him a self-hating Jew, I know. Read John Quigley, "Palestine and Israel: A But first and foremost read Ha Sepher Ha Palmach, The Book of Palmach. “The History of the Palmach” which in part has been published in the 50ies and in its entirety in 1972 (see: Kibbutz Menchad Archive, Palmach Archive, Efal, Israel). This is the history of the predecessor of the IDF and lists all our attrocities before and after the creation of Israel: Operation Nachson, 1 April 1948; Operation Harel, 15 April 1948; Operation Misparayim, 21 April 1948; Operation Chametz, 27 April 1948; Operation Jevuss, 27 April 1948; Operation Yiftach, 28 April 1948; Operation Matateh, 3 May 1948; Operation Maccabi, 7 May 1948; Operation Gideon, 11 May 1948; Operation Barak, 12 May 1948; Operation Ben Ami, 14 May 1948; Operation Pitchfork, 14 May 1948; Operation Schfifon, 14 May 1948 and many more. You find names and names of towns and villages, destroyed and its people murdered or expelled by us: Go to the UN-Archiv, War Documents, Middle East Section, and have a look at the maps of the region. Are the maps too self-hating Jews? Anti-Semitic? Look at the maps of PASSIA which too are illustrating the history of the past and the present. Why do you lack any mention or link to any of the peace groups? Read Gush Shalom, Jews Not Zionists, Not in my Name, Neturei Karta, Righteous Jews, Jews for Justice in the Middle East, The Other Israel, Rabbi for Human Rights, ACRI, ICAHD, etc. etc. All self-hating Jews so they fit the pre-disposed and programmed mind? Read "THE KEY TO PEACE: DISMANTLING THE MATRIX OF CONTROL" by Jeff Halper, http://www.icahd.org/eng/articles.asp?menu=6&submenu=3. The only just solution is: Get out of the occupied land, demolish all settlements, declare finally after 60 years the borders of Israel and accept to be a state among the states and adhere to the rules of the International Community of which we want so desperately be a part of. And most important: practice what we demand for ourselves; acknowledge the right of the Palestinian people to exist in the land of their forefathers. In peace. Without having to fear on daily basis the attrocities and agression of Israel. This would be a befitting birthday gesture of a democratic (real) State of Israel. I realise that my comment will propably not pass the censorship. So be it. Nonetheless I wish all of you Shalom, Peace and Salam. PS And my compliments to BBC that they do not give in to threats. In today's world this is a rarety. I believe the problem of bias exists because these so called commentators are ignorant or Spiritually blind to the truth. This is why Jeremy Bowen can only look at it from the worlds prejudiced view point. All you need to do is look in the Bible and you will find the truth as spelled out by the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob and all will be revealed. The land belongs fair and square to Israel as an everlastinrg covenant between the Almighty God and His people Israel. What is more King David actually paid money for this land to further reinforce Israel's right to be the legitimate owners of all the land of Israel and much more besides. Through these Spiritual eyes Israel is not 'occupying' any of the land, it already belongs to them. Can you imagine the picture the other way round with the Jews in Mecca having conquered that land, everybody would say it should be in Muslim hands as it is their Spiritual home. People should take the same view with Israel. Whist their has been no covenent between the muslims and mecca and God, Israel have the legitimate paid up right in all aspects to live in the land of their inheritance, ie their God given right. Strengthened by King David's payment for this land. Jeremy Bowen is just another liar and jew hater. I'm sure he would have fit right in with Hitler and the SS. They are probably his heros. What does he get out of lying? I guess it helps feed his hatred. Lovers of Israel- All previous comments seem to have said it all. Jeremy Bowen is a sad member of humanity. What is the BBC waiting for to throw him out on his "tuchus"? I don't like the title which says "Israel's 60 birthday". This is to please the enemies of Israel. Israel was born many,many years ago before even some countries got their names. This 60 years celebration is the re-birth of Israel or Independence day. Jeremy Bowen envies the success of USA and displays his wapped hatred through bashing Israel because US supports Israel in the war of survival. George Onah, Nigeria Jeremy Bowen belongs to the old order of jews haters and he probably wants some oil bloc from a sheik in the middle east. He must be a German of hitler days and not British proper. He is certainly a disappointment as a journalist because he is onesided in his analysis and his comments are thoroughly and bare-faced anti-Israel Jeremy Bowen has decided to recreate history so future generations as well as future generations can point to his distortion of fact and use it as truth when in fact his production is most likely 10% truth and 90% from his warped opinion of Israel and Jews in particular. The BBC is getting more tiresome. Yes, they are anti-Semitic, why not,the British government has been and still is.You would think after the bombings of the buses, etc. they would see it as a wake-up call but no, the British left is still swooning over Arab money & oil and their old scapegoat, the Jews. I don't think that Scotland Yard is looking at their moslem population with such rose colored glasses but they have to deal with them directly unlike the so- called intellectuals. You can always distort history if you hate someone, you just tailor the "facts" to your disgusting point of view.There is no point going over point by point the lies Bowen uses, WE KNOW the truth.
This is a thoughtful, much needed comeback to Bowen’s documentary, filling in important historical information. It is a shame that he has so distorted the situation, especially on a program meant to commemorate Israel’s 60th birthday. Thank you to Honest Reporting, for giving a more integrated, informed view of the issue. I suppose I am not in the least surprised that the BBC would post more biased articles about Israel. I suggest to Mr. Jeremy Bowen to " Don't quit your day job" Get your facts straight and educate yourself about Israel instead of your childish ramblings you are posting! Thank you, Betti Miner In Tasmania last night on BBC World Katya Adler and the BBC Jerusalem correpondent slammed the state of Israel in their reporting of Israels 60th birthday celebrations. I wrote the following letter to the BBC BBC/Bowen's "Birthday Present to Israel" is so much unsubstantiated hot air questioning not only BBC's integrity but also its competence. This morning, Friday May 9, a BBC World News reporter was describing Hezbollah's challenge to the Lebanese government and the violence that is occuring in Beirut. In his identification of Hezbollah the reporter described them as having "defended Lebanon from Israeli incursion". Furthermore - even leaving out the egregious nonsense above - the story was presented as, at most, a symmetrical conflict. The use of force and arms by one party to influence and intimidate the polity of a sovereign government is, to the BBC, a perfectly legitimate expression of power by one of the parties.
It is abundantly evident that BBC reporting - at least in regard to Israel - is propaganda and, in regard to Lebanon's moderate and secular politicians, indifferent. BBC is providing "Hugo Chavez/Muammar Quadafy current events instruction" but hardly dispassionate "information". BBC World News or Hezbollah's World Views !!! One always gets exactly what one expects from the BBC. There can be no argument to continue supporting the public funding of this monster. No ethnic cleansing by the Israeli forces? Bah, humbug. It seems just a tad problematic to be urging people who haven't seen the film to send in complaints to the BBC. More of the "nascent McCarthyism" that David Landua mentioned? Few years back I had suggested the BBC to change their name to PPC - "Palestine Propaganda Corporation". The Arabs have long been used as pawns by their own when it comes to manipulation. The ugly truth is they themselves have allowed this to continue through fear of reprisals and ignorance, and go so far as to vote for the likes of the murderous Hamas to govern them. Mind you, when Arab Israel's were asked if they thought it a good idea to be ruled by the same Hamas, the majority opted for living under Israeli rule rather than subject themselves and their families to a life of want, fear and need. In the real world, you cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hound, but try and have an Arab agree with you on such logic. Will the day ever come when they love their children more than they hate Israel? Not in my lifetime. As for the BBC, this lot of state supported welfare bums and doubtful starters have sold their own country down the river with their constant barrage of political correctness against the people of the UK, so certainly we ought not be surprised to see them continue their double dealing when given a golden opportunity to present Israel as just another oppressive regime as though it were Zimbabwe they were speaking of. Of course, the BBC knows from one sided dictatorial rule: is this not what they present to the world through their shabby reporting just who they in fact are? Godspeed Israel. What do you expect from the BBC with their love of Palestinians and every opportunity to put Israel in a negative light? I live in the UK and watched the show for about 10 minutes before puking due to the inaccuracies and whitewashing of history. It is amazing that the BBC cannot comprehend that before Israel became a country that it was a terroritory of the British Empire nor do they accept that they proposed a two state solution prior to WWII? Where was that in Jeremy's reporting? By the way the BBC protrays Israel you think the country sprang out of existance in order to destroy Palestine when in fact it was a terroritory controlled by different countries at different times and in reality the Palestinians have brought much of their problems onto themselves by publicly vowing to destroy Israel before its creation. Once again why were these facts missed by Jeremy Bowen? I used to watch BBC once. It was one of the prestigious media of the UK. Not any more, since Arabs, Pakistanis and Asians have taken over. Al-Jazeera and BBC makes no difference. Of all the people that could have made this programme it had to be Bowen!!! The man was kicked out of Israel by a Left wing government; thats how bad he is! They appear to have let him back in, but he is still a S.O.A.B. where Israel and Jews are concerned. The man clearly loves Arabs more than he loves the truth. He is a very poor journalist and should be got rid of. Why does a government monopoly taxpayer funded news media continue to spew such obviously biased and erronious drivel!!! The British are embarrassed by the BBC it is no longer british but run by muslims and sodomites. Bowen did know the History of the Temple but his Editors probably determine the take on mid East - as they are ignorant left wing atheists all we can do is apologise and suggest you look at sites where Brits do support and comprehend the reality of Israeli history and the Judaic roots of the Christian faith which mean we understand why we are called to Bless Ysrael and pray for the Peace of Jerusalem. Please accept our deepest apologies And please, please remember that for months the BBC has been heavily pushing Obama. That should ring alarm bells everywhere. abdul aziz khattak at May 7, 2008 10:39:40 PM Post a comment[Comments are held for approval before appearing.]
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