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[zangdook] 25/10/2023 17:16

If you won't accept a UN document as evidence that Israel is occupying Palestinian territories there's not much hope for you. Perhaps your local GP can refer you to a mental health clinic.

[zangdook] 25/10/2023 16:51

You do mouth off a lot for someone so unbelievably ignorant. Here's some reading for you.

[geckotheglorious] 25/10/2023 16:12

Zang?
Eh? Occupation? What you dribbling on about. Israel isnt occupying the place at all.

[xxxxxy] 25/10/2023 12:13

Russia is SICK.Made in Russia. LiesMade in Russia. TerrorismMade in Russia. MurderMade in Russia. TortureMade in Russia. MenaceMade in Russia. WAR CRIMESThe list goes on, and isn't over until Putin and his Gangsters are in the Hague Court.

[xxxxxy] 25/10/2023 12:12

Oleksandr Prokudin said."At about 07:20, the enemy dropped a guided aerial bomb on a residential area of the city (of Beryslav). It hit a house. Unfortunately, a 42-year-old man was fatally wounded," he said.Kyiv drove Russian forces out of part of the Kherson region last November after several months of occupation, but Russian troops have continued shelling the regional capital and areas around it from across the Dnipro River.... Daily Telegraph

[spacedust] 24/10/2023 23:51

All western leaders scared out if their wits to condemn Isnotrael

[zangdook] 24/10/2023 22:51

Funny how little Macron celebrates the French Resistance who fought the German occupation, but when it's the Palestinian Resistance fighting the Israeli occupation he suddenly takes the occupiers' side. But I suppose he would take the side of the French occupation of Vietnam too. No principles, only opportunism.

[spacedust] 24/10/2023 22:45

Ruble getting stronger and stronger since satans abandoned Ukraine

[spacedust] 24/10/2023 22:44

West Bank has no hamass

Also they were not around before 2006 and still the Palestinians were murdered

[1917again] 23/10/2023 16:16

Yes get rid of War Criminal Putin solve Ukraine carnage

[31337 c0d3r] 23/10/2023 14:14

I agree we need to get rid of Putin and elect Alexei Navalny.

[spacedust] 23/10/2023 13:41

Dangerous times. War in europe, Middle East and potentially south Pacific as well.

At times like these we need leadership who can bring people together and not make things worse and create more carnage.

[xxxxxy] 23/10/2023 08:43

Russia is SICK.

[xxxxxy] 23/10/2023 08:43

Ukrainian officials also reported Sunday that two people had been killed by Russian shelling in the Donetsk region. A 58-year-old man in the village of Kalinovka died in his home, while a 61-year-old man was killed in the town of Vasiukovka from a direct hit to his car, according to the Ukrainian prosecutor's office.... Daily Telegraph

[xxxxxy] 22/10/2023 21:30

Made in Russia. LiesMade in Russia. TerrorismMade in Russia. MurderMade in Russia. TortureMade in Russia. MenaceMade in Russia. WAR CRIMESThe list goes on, and isn't over until Putin and his Gangsters are in the Hague Court.

[1knocker] 22/10/2023 11:21

The wars in Ukraine and the middle east are propaganda wars as well as shooting wars. 'Enemy' news is 'propaganda', 'friends' news is 'managed'.

Is the BBC 'biased' and if so in which direction?

What we can say with certainty is that in the Israeli /Palestinian conflict, the supporters of both sides claim that it is biased against their side, and do their best to bring pressure to bear to 'correct' the language and tone to favour their side.

That is not unusual. It happens when any contentious issue is in the news, be it Brexit or a war.

Think about it. You have seen umpteen reports of vast Russian casualties and material losses. How many reports have you seen of Ukrainian military casualties and material losses? You have seen umpteen reports of Russian 'premeditated strikes' on schools , wedding parties etc with detailed reports of damage and casualties. How many reports have you seen of Russian strikes on military targets, with detailed reports of damage and casualties? How is it that the Russians are both militarily incompetent, but able to achieve precision when 'targeting' civilian targets? If the reports were all true and balanced, not only would you expect the Russians to have been thrown out of Ukraine by now, but the Ukrainian flag would be flying over the Kremlin! When the UK is backing Ukraine though, would you seriously expect the reporting to be otherwise?

But you don't hear protests about 'BBC anti Russian bias'. Why? Because whatever we may think about the way the war is being fought, or whether it could and should have been avoided, we all broadly want Ukraine to win, even if we have different views as to what would constitute an acceptable 'win'.

It is different in relation to Israel /Palestine. The UK does not have a dog in that fight, though there are fairly small but very noisy sections of our population whose highly partisan feelings range from 'Israel can do no wrong' on one side to to 'Palestinians can do no wrong' on the other , with the great majority in the middle believing either that that both are ghastly and deserve each other, or that both are more sinned against than sinning and it is all just a terrible never ending tragedy for both sides, or flipping from the latter to the former of those two views when confronted with complaints and demonstrations by the partisan sections of the UK population. So you would expect complaints and and disagreement about bias in the news reporting.

It is human nature to want to hear one's own views expressed, but complaints about bias intended to achieve that usually serve only to alienate the openminded and non-partisan sections of the population. Most extreme reactions achieve the exact opposite of their intended result.

Treat ALL news from ANY war zone as one sided, potentially unreliable, or even plain wrong. News, the struggle for hears and minds, is an instrument of war. the journalists deliberately or unconsciously slant their reports to provide what their own audiences want to hear, and only have the material provided to them by those in control on the ground anyway. Nor is any journalist equally welcome in both Russia and Ukraine, or Israel and Gaza, so no single journalist or news organisation can see the picture from both sides. Follow a range of news sources. Then at least you will appreciate how much you don't know, how little can be accepted as totally reliable.

[1knocker] 21/10/2023 20:23

Civilian deaths in Gaza vastly exceed those in Ukraine over the past couple of weeks.
Deaths caused by Russia = 'wilful killing'. Deaths caused by Israel in Gaza = 'unavoidable collateral damage'. So far as I am aware, Russia has not set made it an object of policy to cut off food, water and medical supplies from the Ukrainian civilian population.

All those killed are equally dead, but their deaths are reported differently depending upon whether they were caused by 'friends' or 'enemies'.

So long as such double standards continue, there will be no end to the death and destruction.