As everyone’s favourite fictional state goes into full meltdown-mode, it really is worth pondering how the BBC are going to spin this one. After all, the Corporation’s drones usually rely on the tactic of blaming Palestinians’ blood-soaked, genocidal rampages on Israel’s efforts to defend itself. Yet. For the last few weeks, the country’s Big Two terror-gangs have put their anti-Semitism on hold in order to slaughter each other, with nary an Israeli soldier in sight.

What to do? What to do

Some Palestinians fear that the end of the unity government could cause the collapse of the Palestinian Authority and the other institutions they had hoped would become part of the apparatus of an independent state.

This, from the BBC’s Mid-East Editor, Jeremy Bowen, who isn’t exactly clear on whether these ’some Palestinians’ are ones he’s spoken directly to or not. Certainly, there simply must be ’some’ (that word again) Palestinians who feel this way — There are some Britons who worry that the moon-landings were faked. In any event, their (non-)appearance affords Bowen the opportunity to shoehorn a useful truism into his article in order to provide a platform for some Israel-bashing:

The institutions, and the hopes behind them, have already taken a severe battering from Israel’s military actions over the last seven years and, more recently, by the punishing financial sanctions imposed by Israel and other countries after Hamas won a free election at the beginning of last year.

So, let’s try to understand what Bowen’s saying here:

• The fact that the majority of Palestinians vote only for political parties with armed-wings
• The fact that, in a free and fair election between the sneaky and the blatant approaches to Jew-murder, the majority of Palis opted to get their genocide out in the open by siding with Hamas
• The fact that, as promised, Hamas have spent the past year launching rockets into Israel
• The fact that the Palestinian definition of a ‘unity government’ involved more toe-curling violence than the average civil war prior to escalating into one

– None of this is, according to the BBC, the reason for Palestine’s latest meltdown. Instead, the fault lies with Israel and the West.

It’s tempting, of course, to point out that drivel like this shouldn’t be the sort of thing British subjects are forced to pay for in return for public-service broadcasting. But then, we would no longer treated to the pleasure of watching lefties like Bowen spin so hard in favour of their beloved Palis that they fail to notice the somewhat … um … singular line they’ve been reduced to arguing.

See, it’s really quite hard not to conclude that, right now, the BBC is pushing the idea that, although Palestinians deserve to run their own state, free from all foreign interference, they are also a people, so uniquely incompetent in the whole of human history, that they cannot even be trusted to take responsibility for their own civil wars.

Was that really what Jeremy Bowen meant?

Said RottyPup @ 2:00 pm | Permalink   

1. My favourite fictional state would be that place that a certain hyper-sensitive religiously-inclined group of people created out of thin air (and lots of guns), entitled, and I’m not kidding here “Israel” — as in, “is REAL and not FAKE.” You’d think people with that much money would have more confidence than that… They certainly could buy enough guns to ward off the poorly organized, angry brown savages that lived there before the land-grab. The newcomers showed that a lot could be accomplished by pure force (they learned from the best). Perhaps the “Isreal” peeps were just proving themselves to be forward-thinking, like ad men or politicos: repeat a lie enough and you will believe it yourself — and if you believe it, it’s the truth.

   Comment by seth — 6/19/2007 @ 1:32 am

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