BBC scrubs story about starving Palestinians building luxury homes in West Bank


The video is from the BBC, but AOL picked it up, and that's where I got it. The Jew-hating dhimmis at the BBC have scrubbed it from their website -- here is where it used to be. You can, however, still see it linked (to a dead link) on the BBC Middle East homepage (look on the upper right):

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Mustn't let the facts interfere with the Palestinian jihad!

UPDATE: Blazing Cat Fur is in Israel, and has photos from the West Bank of the sumptuous homes of starving "Palestinians," vs. the hovels that Israeli "settlers" live in.

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This story is wrong, I am in the UK and I have just watched it on the BBC site at the link given. A lot of BBC programs that could be franchised abroad are blocked from non-UK viewers and I think this must be what has happened here.

A free press are the guardians of freedom.

A compliant and partisan press are the tools of dictators and oppressors.

A free press are the guardians of freedom.

A compliant and partisan press are the tools of dictators and oppressors.

I can verify what Robert is saying about this vanishing BBC video of the wealthy 'Palestinians' of the West Bank.

This was the BBC title of the piece:-

"Palestinians build luxury houses in the 'Miami of the West Bank'"

And this was the link-


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20275448

It so happens that at this moment the BBC, which is, of course a publicly-funded, politically 'leftist' outfit of pro-Islamic, pro-mass immigration, pro-E.U, pro-Labour Party/Democrat Party interests, is embroiled in all sort of public scandals of crisis proportions.

For daily critique of BBC, suggest see-

http://biased-bbc.com/

You are right and I can see it from NZ.

"Palestinians build luxury houses in the 'Miami of the West Bank'"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20275448

You are right and I can see it from NZ.

"Palestinians build luxury houses in the 'Miami of the West Bank'"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20275448

and arent they built by our tax $$$$
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In the UK I can launch video with the link on the BBC site, but the AOL version gives me a black screen with the message "Ooops! Video unavailable due to location".

Even in the neo islamic repubblic of Italy.
I hate my country more every day. Our pope is a grand mufti that wear pope costume and in some church they read hadits instead of Bible!

Al Arabiya carries the story in text from Agence France Presse Palatial West Bank homes cost Palestinians greatly: Al Arabiya Nov 9, 2012

Subhi Mustafa spent 35 years abroad, including a decade in the United States, but now that he has built his dream home in his West Bank village, he isn’t planning on going anywhere else.
Mustafa says he decided to decorate and furnish it in an “American style.”
“I wanted everything to be American-style so my children and grandchildren who live there will be comfortable when they come to visit.”

hmm!
the AOL link is blocked in India.'not available from your location' it says.
i got it from BBC link.
funny, because aol is not even cited as a respondent in a case against google and others against 'hate material'in a Delhi court a while ago!
from the gutsy google i got full Mo movie,from a link a poster provided here.
the levels media go towards PC MC!

Dear Jihad Watch readers:

I used to be involved in a lot of different cultural and international causes and charities. Being a gay Native American Indian; I was sought after and many times "courted" to join various groups and causes. Apparently my being gay and my ancestry made me a "prize" amongst leftist causes. It was also known that I interacted with muslims on both a professional and personal level. To have someone of my demographics "on board" whatever cause of the day seemed like a feather in the cap of activists of vaious sorts.

I remember this one event that was at least with lip service for both Palestinian and Israeli charities. I went and immediately became wary; as I discovered one of the organizers was a woman "minister" who was all about liberation theology (remember that movement from the 1980s). The woman was not a Christian. I state that not because of her leftist fanaticism as I know extremely left leaning Christians. She self admittedly that she wasn't a Christian; and used her clergy title for political show.

This event was a scam to do everything it could to get money to support "poor" Palestinian causes. Help the impoverished and maligned Palestinians! The organizer's daughter was involved as well and you could have described her as a 1980s Rachel Cory. All sweet for the cameras to promote her persecuted Palestinians... but away she was a violent anti-Semitic psycho (just like her mother).

I knew from these women that any donations were going to support the PLO and like minded groups. I also knew that other beneficiaries of any donations wasn't going to be "starving" Arab muslim children; but to Muslims who already lived very comfortable lives (had seen the photos of their parties, homes and businesses).courtesy of a previous visit with the minister and her daughter.

So these nice homes you see circa 2012... there were also nice homes, etc in the 1980s. Why? Because of the donations from the Western nations and UN organizations. Because of Christian and Jewish groups feeling guilty (don't know why) and donating. Because of Israeli support of the Palestinians West Bank infrastrucure. Because of Israeli-Arabs benefitting from the financial and material success of living in Israel... and then they (the Israeli-Arabs) send paychecks and products to family in the West Bank. I could go on; but it made me sick to know what was going on.

I was able to change some minds as well about doanting; though some of the other attendees were also already "wary" of donating.

There were two lesbian couples there; one an interfaith couple (one partner was a Jewess). There was another gay man as well. Keep in mind that this was the 1980s; so the media's darlings were communist states. Today it is Islam that can do no wrong in the media. In the '80s it was marxist nations that were protected at all costs in the media. So even though this was changing fast and Islam was starting to enjoy more and more the treatment marxist nations had... there would still be some criticism of Islam in the media. Which included an occasional story about gay persecution in muslim lands. As a result my fellow gays were very concerned about donating to a religion that would have executed them (yes, anti-gay killings in Islamist lands was going on in the 1980s as well).

Since attendees were allowed to bring "materials to share" one woman brought info on what I think was probably Christian Friends of Israel CFoI; lets say that didn't go over well.

Good that many of the folks there didn't donate or in case of the CFoI lady... passed out her resources to some of those "wary" folks. So at least a REAL mid-East charity was promoted.

Sadly, some at this event bought everything hook, line and sinker about this plea for PLO money.

I had one couple come up to me and told me up front how it was very "fitting" that I as an American Indian was here supporting the Palestinians. After all, American Indians NO LONGER experienced poverty (after all, everybody knows that American Indians get plenty of government money) I was told.

Then as they told me that I as a "native person" should feel solidarity with the Palestinians... as they WERE AN INDIGENOUS people too! Apparently, my comments to them that a recent visit to a rez, I saw nothing but abject poverty surprised them. They didn't want to hear my view on how Palestinians ARE NOT INDIGENOUS and it is the Jewish people whose roots are part of the land. This couple was so perplexed that an American Indian didn't understand their misinformed propaganda B.S.

The "talk" (ie plea for money) and the Q&A session didn't go will the organizers as too many in the audience gave a SHOCK..."supports Israel as well response." Some attendees who had not been unwilling to donate to "povertry stricken muslim children" had become so when it became apparent that nothing was going to be collected on behalf of any Israeli cause.

When a young woman whose tee-shirt was covered in feminist slogan buttons walked around with a coffee can to collect out of pocket donations... she was surprised by my refusal to donate as I told her I didn't think the lady minister's PLO supporter daughter's friends didn't need another swimming pool in their backyard or another car in their garage.
This poor girl was totally oblivious to what she was soliciting for.

The event finally ended with more than a few not donating and looking critically and annoyed at the "Free Palestine" brochures they were given on the way out. However, some of the deluded audience did pull out wallets and checkbooks.

This was over 20 years ago.

One thing this story also reminds me of from the 1980s/early 90s was how the media reported about Soweto township South Africa during that era. Many parts of Soweto like the West Bank were very properous. Many millionaires lived in Soweto. African businessmen and women had nice homes with swimming pools and tennis courts.

I AM NOT supporting the aparthied policies of that era. I am stating that though flawed... the South African western system had more freedoms and economic opportunities than the rest of Africa. Also, even before the marxist backed sanctions movement... the RSA had already been dismantling the dreaded apartheid system. The media not only IGNORED THE PROSPERITY AND RIGHTS many blacks in Soweto had... the media also ignored how the ANC used their violent "necklace" murders to retaliate against tribal ethnic and personal disagreements but blame the victims as being "informers for South African officials."

Sound familar for 2012? The fact that many on the West Bank are "well off" is censored in order to create sympathy for the Muslims; where violence from the West Bank against muslims (by other muslims) are blamed on getting rid of "Israeli collaborators", etc.

Some things it seems don't ever change.

That was a very informative post regarding what was going on in the 80s! Apparently no matter what day it is, the Leftists can't keep themselves from hating their own people and helping enemies.

Good post Arjay. I also have read that the starving Palestinian children are listed as obese according to the W.H.O.

That sounds like a worthwhile account to read, traeh, thanks for the link.

The general theme, comparing Muslim apostates to Soviet dissidents puts me in mind of an anecdote my Greek Orthodox friend (an American guy who joined the Orthodox church) told me, from an experience he had on one of his many trips to Greece and its islands. He attested that his experience was common, and that he'd encountered many similar attitudes; but one in particular stood out for him. He was sitting at an outdoor cafe on some Greek island where up in the mountains were ensconced the domiciles of an Orthodox monastery (I don't think this particular place was Athos, the most famous, but it could have been). He knows enough Greek to get along, and he began a conversation with some locals at the table alongside his. When he mentioned that he was going to pay a visit to the monks up the mountain, the Greek men spat on the ground beside the table and cursed the monks.

Now, here's the point: typically in a Muslim society, the ordinary people revere, respect and protect the clerisy and their institutions (madrassas, mosques, etc.). I think it would be extremely rare to encounter a Muslim version of what my Orthodox friend encountered. In fact, more likely, in a Muslim society, you would experience the reverse: anyone who dared to spit at the sheikhs, or the imams, or the muftis etc. would be surrounded by ordinary Muslims and threatened, or would be beaten, or worse.

I.e., the reason the Soviet Union collapsed is that most Russians were not true believers in Communism -- unlike in Islamic societies, where the reverse is the case. When Russians and East Europeans fled to the free West (before, during and after the Fall of the Wall in the 80s), they did not bring Communism with them, in their heads and in their behaviors, but were thankful to be free of all its claptrap. Indeed, Bill Buckley in a long account he wrote of the Fall of the Wall described how oftentimes denizens of the Communist East literally fled with just the shirts on their backs -- individuals, groups, parts of families or whole families -- running across fields often without any luggage at all.

Muslims, by contrast, when they stream into the free West, bring all their doubly totalitarian baggage with them. And when they get here, they assiduously, carefully, slyly unpack and set up shop.

Despite what "Rich" says.

Some Palestinians who made money overseas have built luxury homes, therefore there is no poverty in Palestine.

I was able to watch the video on the BBC site.

Not a bad house, if you're into pretentious stone mansions built on fields of rock. No decorating sense though - perhaps he should consult an expert in interior design.

@Arjay,
what a very interesting post! Thank you!

@liberty.or.death
"Apparently no matter what day it is, the Leftists can't keep themselves from hating their own people..."
Leftists do not regard 'their own people" as their own people.
They are enemies of the places they inhabit, but they do love luxury.

@Arjay,
what a very interesting post! Thank you!

@liberty.or.death
"Apparently no matter what day it is, the Leftists can't keep themselves from hating their own people..."
Leftists do not regard 'their own people" as their own people.
They are enemies of the places they inhabit, but they do love luxury.

What a banal thing to say. Poverty exists everywhere.

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