It’s always reassuring, somehow, to see that the rest of the world’s media is just as biased as the American media. Take, for example, this story from the BBC.
The headline says, “UN Chief Says Gaza Suffering Under Israeli Blockade.” Damn those dastardly Israelis.
The article continues:
The UN chief has said Israel’s blockade of Gaza is causing “unacceptable suffering,” during a Middle East visit to reinvigorate the peace process.
Ban Ki-moon told Gazans that “we stand with you” as he visited an area damaged by Israel’s offensive 14 months ago.
His visit to the region comes amid tension over Israel’s plans to build more settlements in East Jerusalem.
But if you force yourself to keep reading, you’ll come to this revelation mentioned in passing all the way down in the tenth paragraph:
Among a list of criticisms of the blockade by Israel and Egypt, Mr Ban said the blockade was counter-productive as it prevented legitimate commerce and encouraged smuggling and extremism.
What’s that? The problem is so severe that Egypt, another Muslim country, is cooperating with Israel by blockading Gaza?
We assume the left will now begin referring to the evil, racist Egyptians in the same way that they refer to the evil, racist Israelis?
But we won’t hold our breath.
Source: BBC via Best of the Web
This post was last modified on March 24, 2010
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If you notice in every argument, we must first investgate that the grounds we are arguing about are in fact correct. There is NO humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Gaza has the 2 lowest Stunting due to Malnutrician of all of the Arab states. It's children are 4 times better fed than Egypt, 2X Syria, 2X Jordan, 3X Saudi Arabia and 7X Yemen. They are a mere 8% - the same as Israel.
Have a look at the videos below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MpRhmDSKGU&playnext_from=TL&videos=mpg4d3w1n0Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c09RyJC0JqI&playnext_from=TL&videos=tBi1sWHvLUw
Still believe they are starving in gaza?
Come on, the UN is a joke. Remember what happened recently when Israel gave some land back and all the "oppressed" idiots did was smash all the greenhouses so they couldn't grow their own food....and then they could bitch about the evil Israelis.
I just don't understand how a country that keeps getting attacked, and then kicking the collective ass of its attackers, has to give BACK the spoils.
Wow. Egypt is not even one of my favoritie countries right now with their persecution, rape and imprisonment of coptic christians. The govt is really not that great, but if they have united with Israel is because things are really bad and they are trying not to result in all out war, but the fact that this BBC report is so biased doesn't surprise me. Europeans in general perhaps not all but in general HATE Israel. They believe their treatment of Palestinians is barbaric, etc. However wasn't the Palestinians that started that whole bombing of people?