Forum menu
I can therefore only assume that the footage coming out of Gaza is propaganda
Er, no, I doubt it - there [i]really[/i] are lots of dead and dying children in Gaza.
And no, the British TV reporters aren't lying to you - Israel really won't let them in.
So how come there's TV footage even though Israel won't allow reporters in ? Well I think you'll find that's fairly easy to explain.
Whilst the BBC and ITN might not want to have a permanent presence in the occupied territories, TV cameramen from other countries, specially Arab countries, might well have been there before things started to kick off.
Check this out :
[b][i]Danny Seaman, who heads Israel's government press office, which vets and issues permits to foreign correspondents said it was not Israel's responsibility to give foreign media access to Gaza. [u]"They should have been there in the first place,"[/u] before Israel began restricting access on 6 November[/i][/b]
Here's the link : [url] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/06/gaza-israel-international-media-excluded [/url]
If you're bothered about untrue propaganda coming out of Gaza, then take everything the Israelis say with a pinch of salt. The Palestinians have no reason to lie - the truth is horrific enough.
.
ernie_lynch, You are so full of hate for anyone that does not take your point of view.
Really ? This sounds like someone full of hate ?
Quote :
[b]"...the establishment of a free, democratic, secular Palestinian State, where all Palestinians, whether they are Muslim, Christian, or Jew, can live, is as morally imperative as the destruction of the Apartheid State was"[/b]
Well I'll be buggered ......... that'll explain why peace in Palestine is proving so hard to achieve then.
[i]And no, the British TV reporters aren't lying to you - Israel really won't let them in.
So how come there's TV footage even though Israel won't allow reporters in ? Well I think you'll find that's fairly easy to explain.
Whilst the BBC and ITN might not want to have a permanent presence in the occupied territories, TV cameramen from other countries, specially Arab countries, might well have been there before things started to kick off.[/i]
As Jeremy Bowen explains on the BBC website:
"[On January 10] I got back into the BBC armoured vehicle with Hamada Abu Qammar, who is one of our Gaza producers.
You may have heard him on the BBC from Gaza in the last two weeks. As the correspondents can't get in, Hamada and his colleague Rushdi Abu Alouf are on broadcasting duties."
So the truth is much more mundane than the usual anti-semitic conspiracy.