This is a letter from Ted (from Liverpool) who pretty much dismantles BBC; please share.
Aloha Ted,
An absolute joy to read. I will be spreading this enthusiastically and look forward to seeing how many of the “journalists” at the BBC manage to report the truth about their disgusting propaganda piece. A better world has no room for such trash, and since those at the helm of the BBC have made it their choice to serve invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan and the ongoing occupation of Palestine, I look forward to their inevitable downfall… or takeover by people who actually honour the responsibilities inherent in genuine journalism. One way or the other, the truth will indeed set us free from the propaganda as only the BBC can deliver.
TJP,
Ken O’Keefe
Sir,
I would refer to the ‘consolidated appeal’ procedure which Michael Fadda, Editorial Assistant to the BBC Trust, has described in his email of 3rd December. This was in response to Richard Lightbown’s complaint of 24th August that the Panorama programme, Death on the Med’, was biased and lacking in impartiality. The procedure described by Mr Fadda is Byzantine and the process so drawn out as to make any final BBC decision, apparently due in April, meaningless.
It has become increasingly clear that the programme was a whitewash of the truth and represents a nadir of the consistent bias displayed by the BBC in its reporting of the Palestine/Israel situation.
This lack of impartiality was confirmed by John Pilger who told us on the Today programme (on 10/12/10) that the BBC had failed to report the UNHRC report on the Mavi Marmara affair on its main news channels – censorship by omission.
The report of the fact-finding mission of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the Israeli attack on the Gaza flotilla was released on 27/9/10. It is revealing and damning and should have been the subject of much publicity; it shows conclusively that US citizen Furkan Dogan and five Turkish citizens were murdered ‘execution-style by Israeli commandos’.
The report states that both activists and journalists on board the flotilla were treated in a cruel and inhuman way and confirms that cameras, laptops, mobiles, passports, credit cards and cash were stolen by the IDF. As John Pilger stated, war crimes were found to have been committed and the report recommends that there is a clear case for prosecution for wilful killing etc – *see extracts from the report shown below.
This Mission report gives unquestionable evidence that ‘Death on the Med’ was a travesty of truth. The BBC should now make an unreserved apology and offer the resignation of the Director General. Under the watch of the current DG the BBC has increasingly shown bias and lack of impartiality in their reporting of the Palestinian/Israeli situation. The BBC appears to be in thrall to Israel – as is much of the American media – it is understood that the UN Mission report did not appear in any US media whatsoever.
The Israeli military and its government have again behaved in flagrant contravention of the Geneva Conventions and should be regarded as a rogue state. For the UK to seek to protect members of the Israeli government from international law procedures – as they are attempting to do on 13th December by tampering with Universal Jurisdiction – makes them complicit in Israel’s serial wrongdoing, as does also the moral support they give in avowing that they are ‘Friends of Israel’
The UK government would be well advised to read the attached UN Mission report, and then to rethink that friendship and their whole policy towards the Middle East.
Ted from Liverpool
*The Mission considers that the same factual circumstances provide prima facie evidence that protected persons suffered violations of international humanitarian law committed by Israeli forces during the interception,
There is clear evidence to support prosecutions of the following crimes within the terms of article 147 of the Fourth Geneva Convention: • Wilful killing; • Torture or inhuman treatment; • Wilfully causing great suffering or serious injury to body or health
Perhaps the most shocking testimony, after that relating to the violence on the Mavi Marmara, was the consistent accounts of a number of incidents of extreme and unprovoked violence perpetrated by uniformed Israeli personnel upon certain passengers during the processing procedures inside the terminal at Ben Gurion International Airport on the day of deportation. These accounts were so consistent and vivid as to be beyond question.
December 13, 2010 at 4:16 am
As a US citizen, I am outraged that the media conceals Israeli crimes against humanity. By their silence, they have proven that they are working for the Israeli government and not in the best interest of the American people who have sent billions of their tax money to Israel. The Zionist media is supporting Zionist Israel, and there is definitely a conflict of interest. This must come to a stop immediately.
April 20, 2011 at 6:21 pm
I firmly believe that Americans don’t like people crashing planes into their tall buildings because the Zionist controlled media tells them to feel that way.
When an American woman puts her children on an airplane, she has no right to worry about a freedom fighter with a bomb in his underwear.
It’s all different in Europe. Europeans always say, “I love Arabs so much, I wish more would move to my country!!!!”.
December 13, 2010 at 7:18 am
love the description,”Meaningless”,may i ad unworthy..
December 13, 2010 at 11:23 am
Fraud Media
December 13, 2010 at 11:38 am
A few years ago the Israeli press office withdrew BBC press passes for a few months as they were not happy with their coverage and were only authorised after much negotiation and agreeing to certain guidelines!
December 14, 2010 at 12:58 am
https://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/forms/
December 14, 2010 at 1:14 am
Also, we can commet on
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/panorama/2010/08/death_in_the_med_-_join_in_the.html
December 14, 2010 at 1:20 am
Also, we can comment on
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/panorama/2010/08/death_in_the_med_-_join_in_the.html
December 19, 2010 at 6:53 pm
Why can’t we get them into the Court for that?
Not telling the truth,missleading the facts…
Cristiana
April 15, 2011 at 8:28 am
DEAR MR O’KEEFE
A GENERAL THOUGHTS AND FEAR
What should we do in your opinion.
It is always our blame.
Do you have any plans for us.
I feel your pain for the innocent, do we have some measure OF innocence in you eyes
I know that my questions are childish in the eye of the global processes,
And still do you have a place in your future for my INNOCET KIDS
I ALWAYS HOPE FOR THE BEST FOR EVEREBODY AND STILL
WHAT GIVES YOU THE RIHGT TO UNUL MY MORALITY AND INTEGRITY?
YOU ARE NOT THAT tolerant YOU ARE AN ANGRY PERSON
YOU MAY HAVE YOUR OWN JUSTIFIED REASONS for that BUT NOT FOR ANY REASON YOU DO OWN THE TRUTH
I HOPE THAT VILONCE WOULD BECOME ONE DAY A DICTIONARY RECORD BUT THIS CERTAINLY WOULD NOT BE BASED ON INTOLERANCE OR BIGATRY FROM ANYONE!
BEST WISH
AS ALWAYS I HOPE FOR THE BEST
December 19, 2014 at 7:42 am
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