I love BBC, I usually think that it’s a good source of information. Mostly impartial. Mostly. Today is Israel’s Independence Day, and I’m watching BBC “coverage”. BBC, the British Broadcasting Corporation. To some, even the mention of “British” brings up memories of occupation, colonialism, imperialism, and the famous “The Sun Never Sets on the Empire”.
I’m watching BBC’s “coverage” of the Israel Independence Day, and I’m thinking: nothing has changed. They still hate Jews, as they always have. Now they also hate Israelis. I have no other explanation for the fact that they allow thirty seconds to cover the poor Israeli school kids waving the blue and white flags, balancing it out right away with two minutes of an interview with some poor Palestinians who fled their homes sixty years ago, after the Arab plan of finishing off what Hitler has begun had failed.
They then go an announce that the Israeli Independence Day is the Arab anti-celebration called the Catastrophe, or the Naqba, and promise to have “live coverage of the Day-of-Catastrophe”. Live coverage. The BBC is providing live coverage of the Naqba. Unbelievable.
So let me break it to you. Everyone. The Jews may not be great administrators of state. But they are creative, they are resourceful, and they’re not going anywhere. They are here to stay.
To the Arab countries. Yes you with the huge land mass, rich in oil and in oil money. I would suggest the following. It’s time to do something. Time to shell out some money to get the refugee problem resolved. Get those people their dignity. They have been a playing card for you for way too long. They deserve a life. Their lives from sixty years ago can never be re-established. Just like my mother will never go back to Romania to claim her father’s house. And like my father who will never claim his father’s antique and jewelry store, destroyed in 1948 by a Jordanian tank. People caught in the midst of hostile activities get hurt, but they recover and they move on. Living in refugee camps is a shame. People were able to themselves following much much worse disasters. So can you.
To the BBC, I would suggest that when covering the British Independence Day (not sure there is one), they should have live coverage from the non-celebrating countries. The Indian and Pakistani, who are still trying to figure out what the British colonialism had left them to deal with - “creative” splitting of the land, and the population. The French maybe? Various countries and islands in Africa and South America. In fact, the BBC should have live coverage from Leeds. There are many families in Leeds who are not celebrating any British holidays…
You would think CNN is more responsible? Think again. In their infinite stupidity, CNN chose to cover the small village of Zippori. An “agricultural colony” as Ben Wedeman of CNN called it. There was a live coverage of a steady line of “Young Israeli Palestinians” (I swear he said that), to the ruins of the old Palestinian village of “Safuri”. But Ben “forgot” to tell that Israeli settlement in Zippori is documented to have had an Israeli Jewish settlement thousands (at least two) years ago..
Let My People Stay!
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