The BBC: clueless or complicit? At this point, what difference does it make?
“Hamas chooses Ismail Haniya as new leader,” BBC, May 6, 2017 (thanks to Fjordman):
The Palestinian militant group Hamas has announced that Ismail Haniya has been chosen as its new overall leader.
He succeeds Khaled Meshaal, who has served the maximum two terms in office.
Mr Haniya, 54, lives in Gaza, which Hamas has ruled since 2007, unlike Mr Meshaal, who lives in Qatar.
Mr Haniya is seen as a pragmatist who will try to ease Hamas’s international isolation. The group published a new policy document this week regarded as an attempt to soften its image….
It declares for the first time a willingness to accept an interim Palestinian state within pre-1967 boundaries, without recognising Israel.
It also says Hamas’s struggle is not with Jews but with “occupying Zionist aggressors”. The 1988 charter was condemned for its anti-Jewish language.
Mr Barhoum said: “The document gives us a chance to connect with the outside world.”
A spokesman for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said Hamas was “attempting to fool the world but it will not succeed”….
But it sure will fool the BBC.
“Hamas praises Osama bin Laden as holy warrior,” by Conal Urquhart, Guardian, May 2, 2011 (thanks to Fjordman):
The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas has praised Osama bin Laden as an “Arab holy warrior” and condemned his killing by American forces in Pakistan….
Ismail Haniyeh, head of the Hamas administration in the Gaza Strip, told reporters that Hamas viewed the killing of Bin Laden as “a continuation of the American policy based on oppression and the shedding of Muslim and Arab blood”.
He noted doctrinal differences between Bin Laden’s al-Qaida and Hamas which sees itself as primarily a nationalist movement rather than an international movement. Haniyeh added: “We condemn the assassination and the killing of an Arab holy warrior. We ask God to offer him mercy with the true believers and the martyrs.”…
Oliver says
Hamas cannot even pay for their electricity- they produce nothing. When Israel ( bad mistake) gave up Gaza, there was a thriving aquaculture business, greenhouses; flowers being exported worldwide, etc.
The Arabs destroyed the entire thing in days.
And have done nothing.
MOST OF GAZA-IN CONTRADICTION TO THE USELESS NATIONS THAT TI SI OVERCROWDED- HAS VAST, VIRTUALLY UNINHABITED AREAS.
Yet Hamas crams its people into small areas , and puts their rockets -to fire at civilians there- and cries and the assholes in the Useless Nations and the great (?) countries like Sweden, France, etc condemn Israel for killing “civilians”- who were either human shields, or terrorists but not in a uniform.
The left sucks; lies and tries to stifle those who disagree.
And to disagree with the left is suicide.
gravenimage says
Oliver wrote:
Hamas cannot even pay for their electricity- they produce nothing. When Israel ( bad mistake) gave up Gaza, there was a thriving aquaculture business, greenhouses; flowers being exported worldwide, etc.
The Arabs destroyed the entire thing in days.
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Yes–and philanthropic American Jews bought the greenhouses from the Israelis and donated them to Muslim employees in Gaza to give the economy a leg up.
As noted, Muslims there destroyed the greenhouses and other businesses as soon as the Israelis pulled out. What a bunch of barbarians.
Mirren10 says
”Mr Haniya is seen as a pragmatist who will try to ease Hamas’s international isolation. ”
Seen as a ‘pragmatist’ by **whom** ? How I loathe this sort of bland unattributed statement, so typical of the bbcrap.
gravenimage says
True, MIrren. To begin with, using the passive is never a good sign.
Michael Copeland says
Ismail Haniyeh says “Hamas ….sees itself as primarily a nationalist movement”.
This is un-Islamic.
“Prophet said ‘The Muslim nation is one nation to the exclusion of all others'”,
(placard in Oxford Street pro-Sharia demonstration, see ThinkAfricaPress)
gravenimage says
Muslims will say anything if they think it will further than cause of Islam.
The foolish Infidels are more apt to be sympathetic to something they think is a desire fro national independence.
mortimer says
The BBC is filled with nit-wits who write and speak about Islamic issues without the slightest study in the Islamic primary source texts. This would be similar to the BBC sending UNSTUDIED reporters to cover the international CRICKET MATCHES that occur regularly. Would they do that? No, they would not, because the BBC cricket reporting would be a simple-minded laughingstock.
The BBC coverage of Islam is similarly a laughingstock. The only reporter the BBC had who actually understood Islam perfectly was Zaynab Bedawi. She did not allow Islamists to get away the slightest amount of rubbish, but would swiftly and accurately expose their absurd claims.
The BBC has no one at the moment who is well-enough prepared to cover the Islam beat. This is reprehensible. They are letting their audience down and the people have every right to denounce the BBC for being complicit with the terrorists, if the BBC cannot even spot and identify the sinister implications of what Islamic terrorists are saying.
gravenimage says
Mortimer wrote:
The BBC coverage of Islam is similarly a laughingstock. The only reporter the BBC had who actually understood Islam perfectly was Zaynab Bedawi. She did not allow Islamists to get away the slightest amount of rubbish, but would swiftly and accurately expose their absurd claims.
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Not sure how unbiased she is, Mortimer. bbcwatch.org frequently criticised Badawi for “resorting to the all too easy and simplistic default option of blaming Israel for just about any Palestinian problem”. They blamed her for a “blatant disregard for accuracy”
somehistory says
Some time in the past, it was stated that moslims work at the BBC. What else can moslims say about moslims? They never see themselves as anything but in the right, the reasonable, the whatever will float their evil boat.
gravenimage says
There are huge numbers of Mohamemdans at the Beeb.
Ed Lee says
The BBC is complicit, not clueless. It does make a difference. For you, Robert, to use Hillary Clinton’s Benghazi question is a major error in judgement on your part. You need to choose your words much more carefully.
Wellington says
So, per BBCthink, Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot were also pragmatists. Actually, these four were even more pragmatic than Haniya considering what they “achieved.”
But hey, give Haniya some time here and don’t judge prematurely. Perhaps eventually he can be put in the same Hall of Fame of Pragmatism as the other four I already mentioned. All he needs, after all, is the means. To date it appears he certainly has the same kind of will, a very strong belief in an aberrant ideology, and an overall psychopathic make-up.
Yeah, give him time. Bet too he’s a wonderful guy person-to-person. Surely.
Eigil the downthrodden says
I see.. Holy ‘warrior’, fighting man & brave soldier etc. Did the man swing a sword in challenge of a despot, or annihilate a tyranny in the name of the greater good? Salah ad-Din would spin in his grave if he were compared with bin Laden. Men of action are remembered, but why is it that bin Laden who takes the whole blame. I mean, the unidentified zealots and all who influenced them to buccaneer the planes are just as guilty.
gravenimage says
Salah ad-Din would spin in his grave if he were compared with bin Laden.
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Saladin was himself a Jihadist. The image of him as a chivalrous knight was mostly spun by romantic Western writers like Sir Walter Scott.
gravenimage says
New Hamas top dog praised bin Laden as “holy warrior,” BBC calls him “pragmatic”
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These idiots are still hoping “fixing pot holes” will trump waging violent Jihad with Islam. It never does.
n tesdorf says
There is no need to chose, the BBC is both clueless and complicit along with almost all of the rest of the Western Media.
Dov Berrol says
Indeed, one only has to look at the significant place that the BBC Arabic Service has in the overall BBC operation. It offers radio and television programs in Arabic 24/7. Therefore, the service has a significant number of Muslim employees who will colour the coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflict to their liking. And since most of the leftist main-stream media adore and idolize the BBC, the Arabs know that this is a powerful propaganda weapon in their ongoing Jihad against the infidel Jews.
So respectful handling of Hamas with kid-gloves by the BBC is no surprise.