BBC Goes Entire Article Without Mentioning Most Important Fact
Written by Brian Garst, Posted in Foreign Affairs & Policy, Media Bias
In an article on a disagreement over Israeli textbooks, BBC managed to never once mention that the “occupied” land in question was taken as a response to Arab aggression.
Currently, schoolbooks show Israel’s territorial conquests in the 1967 war – the West Bank, Gaza, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights – as part of Israel.
International law deems them occupied land that Israel has illegally settled.
. . .Settlers and their supporters have fought hard against any attempt by governments to withdraw from occupied land, either to foster peace with the Palestinians or enhance Israeli security.
About 430,000 settlers are thought to live in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, taken from Jordanian control in 1967.
The land was taken from Jordan in 1967. The end.
You’d almost think Jordan did nothing at all to provoke the capture of its land. Nothing at all alongs the line of – oh, I don’t know – invading Israel.
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