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June 2001
A Collection of articles in response to the BBC Panorama program.
Introduction:
BBC Program: Sharon should be tried for war crimes
That Israel has reacted with fury to the BBC's
propaganda fest this past Sunday evening comes as no
surprise. Once considered the leading television station in
the world, the BBC utilized its weekly newsmagazine
Panorama to launch an unprecedented broadside against Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon. Nineteen years after the Sabra and
Shatilla massacre, in which Lebanese Christian militiamen
killed hundreds of Palestinians, the BBC suddenly decided
to investigate the affair, making the case that Sharon is
fit to be indicted for war crimes.
From "A Panoramic Failure" see link below.
BBC correspondents extend their double standard to their supposedly
objective reports. After a series of bombings -- one by the IRA in London,
and two by Hamas in Israel -- the BBC labeled IRA bombers as "terrorists,"
but called Palestinian bombers by the far milder term "militants." This
despite the fact that the IRA at least gave prior warning of their attack,
something Hamas would never do because of its intent to kill Jews.
The Palestinians, or even Yasser Arafat alone, have committed, ordered and propagated enough terrorism to keep the Belgian tribunals
busy for years. Today, Islam is the only worldwide ideological stream in many parts of which a culture of death and murder is widely propagated; this is
true of both its Shi'ite and Sunni factions. Iran, Iraq, Libya, and the Lebanese Hizbullah are among the world's worst offenders.
The BBC has for years engaged in incitement against Israel in its programming, long before it concocted this week's
new blood libel against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon regarding the 1982 slaughter of Palestinian refugees by Christian
Phalangists.
Needless to say, the content and timing of the program are highly suspect, coming as it
does when Israel and the Palestinian Authority are in the throes of a propaganda war
aimed at winning over world public opinion.
"The program disregarded the judgments made in Israel and the US on the matter," he said, in reference to the Kahan
Commission and the US Court of Appeals decision in Sharon's suit against Time magazine, which both found that Sharon was
not responsible for the massacre.
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.
Since the British
establishment has always been a zealous guardian
of the system that kept Israel's head down after
1982, the BBC was more than willing to undertake
the task of disarming Sharon and restoring the
limitations on Israel's military resourcefulness.
It came up with the program called "Accused",
which aimed both at discrediting their target and
warning him to keep his head down - or risk being
tried as a war criminal.
And lo, the very next day came the news that survivors of those massacres
had lodged a suit in Brussels, demanding Mr. Sharon be indicted under a 1993
law that allows Belgian magistrates to try war-crimes cases no matter where
they were committed.
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