Just because the story is not reported, it does not mean that the events did not happen.
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| A child, wounded in a strike on a U.N. school in Beit Hanoun |
The government propaganda officers (P
O's) who sit permanently on the editorial boards of our newspapers,
were very busy yesterday pushing the official line, or perhaps the
lack of it,
to ensure that today’s editions
contain predominately “safe” stories. A glance across the front
pages of our national daily's reveal the extent to which the
sanitisation of news has reached new levels of “subtlety” which
the P O's hope and believe will satisfy the readers and divert their
attention, at least for a short period.
For example, the Daily Mirror leads
with a “story” about Vladimir Putin's girlfriend, The Sun has
more about Peaches Geldorf, the Star continues its obsession with
“Big Brother”, in the Express the front page is again dominated
by the British weather, while the Times and the Telegraph lead with
more hyperbole regarding the “recovery” of the British economy.
The Daily Mail (where else), offers a big story about the Red Arrows
and the FT comes in with its own view on the “Junk Bond Bull run”.
Even the Independent and the Guardian, who usually at least, make
some attempt to report on matters which concern us all, or perhaps
should concern us, can only find a story about the “poultry scare”
or how the Council tax causes hardship to the poor.
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| BBC News 24 |
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| Sky News |
We should not forget that the P O's are
also very active in the offices of the news editors at both Sky News
and BBC News albeit with slightly lesser success than with
newspapers, but where “delicate material” does find its way onto
our screens, we can always rely on the fact that the shameless
partiality of the presenter will guide the viewer in the “right”
direction. Martine Croxall, Clive Myrie and Tim Willcox at the BBC
with Anna Botting, Colin Brazier, Stephen Dixon and Kay Burley at
Sky News, to name only a few, manage to throw into question any
opinion, suggestion or even fact which does not agree with the
“official version” of the truth.
Only on Aljazeera, can the viewer
expect to be given an accurate and balanced report and analysis of
events both in the news programmes and on their regular news analysis
feature programmes. This is probably due to the fact the Aljazeera is
based in Doha well out of reach of the P O's in the United Kingdom.
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| A Palestinian man carries a child, wounded strike on a U.N. school in Beit Hanoun, |
It
should have been impossible for the national daily papers here in the
United Kingdom, to completely ignore, apart from one photograph on
the Guardian and one on the Independent, the fact that yesterday,
Israeli tanks and aircraft attacked a UN run school in Beit Hanoun,
which was designated as a “safe haven” for Palestinian civilians
who had fled the fighting in other parts of Gaza. Chris Gunness, the
spokesman for UNRWA, the UN's humanitarian organisation in Gaza, said
"We gave the Israelis the precise GPS coordinates of the Beit
Hanoun shelter. We were trying to coordinate a window [for
evacuation] and that was never granted," This is the fourth time
in the last few days of the current fighting, that Israeli forces
have attacked UN schools and comes only three days after their
shelling of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital, where many civilians were
killed and injured. In yesterdays attack, which may be another
Israeli war crime, 15 people were killed and more than 150 injured,
some seriously.
It is difficult, if not impossible, to
understand how western leaders, Kerry, Hammond, Cameron, Obama, Hague
and the rest, can continue with their constant repetition of the
phrase “Israel has the right to defend itself”, and the more and
more implausible lies, distortion and inflammatory comments of
Benjamin Netanyahu, Mark Regev and now of Naftali Bennet, just beggar
belief. No right thinking person could justify that the “Israel’s
right to self defence” rationale can extend to killing civilian men
women and tragically many children, sheltering in UN installations,
hospitals, schools, disabled facilities or old peoples homes, because
they have nowhere else to go.
Since the commencement of “Operation
Protective Edge” on the 8th July 2013, less than 20 days ago, more
than 800 people have been killed by the Israeli forces. Of those 800,
more than 70% (560) are civilians and of those more than 250 were
children.
The list of war crimes charges against
the invading Israeli forces is growing by the hour to add to those
war crimes which Israel has committed during its long blockade of
Gaza and the occupation of Palestinian lands. The protests against
Israeli aggression has spread within the last few hours, to the West
Bank, East Jerusalem, Ramalah and other towns throughout Palestine.
Already, two Palestinian protesters have been killed by Israeli
“security” forces and the protests continue.
Our media is full of stories about the
Commonwealth games, Vladimir Putin's girlfriend, The Red Arrows or
Britain “Baking” for a month rather than the events in Gaza. The
P O's in the editorial offices may be working overtime, but they are
destined to loose as public become aware of their motives and
the reality of what is taking place in Gaza
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