The BBC Can't Even Write Coherent Anti-Israel Propaganda
So Peretz has coopted some of the right by letting Avigdor Lieberman into the Coalition. All well and good. Here's how the BBC is helping sophisticated Americans and Brits talk about the event:
Because seriously, if Israel has to go to war with Iran or fails to make peace with the Palestinians, it will be the fault of the Israeli centrist coalition that's currently in control. This is like if you're shooting at us and your buddy is threatening to kill us - and when we turn around to go home, you say "well fine, but let the record show that you're the one who's walking away from this". Why would a newspaper even print an Iranian claim that Israel is being belligerent toward Iran? Like isn't that so far from good sense and logical thinking that you would just kind of dismiss it the same way you would dismiss tin-foil lunatics who claim that Jews were behind 9/11? As a journalist you personally note it, but then think that professionally it's just not something that one prints.
Which brings us to the Egyptians who are concerned that Israel is going to set back the peace process. That would be the peace process that Hamas has said thousands of times does not exist, will not exist, and can not exist. So there's obviously a huge cost in setting it back, right? Isn't this another thing where you'd be obligated to print something like "An Egyptian commentator sees the move as a setback to the peace process with the Palestinians, although Israeli neglected to articulate that possibility in light of Palestinian intransigence toward Israeli peace gestures made in recent months"
As "proof" of their assertion that Israeli commentators are critical of Lieberman, they site one Ha'aretz editorial (not even an editorial - a rant by Lili Galili) and two Yediot Aharonot articles. The first Yediot Aharonot article that proves that there is "concern [regarding] the admitting of the ultra-nationalist Yisrael Beitenu party" begins with:
So in other words, "just the opposite" of concern. The second article reads:
So in other words, a total lack of concern. But since 90percent of readers never get past the lede, they can comfortably go on believing that the BBC has confirmed for them that Israel is a racist state that even its own newspapers are outraged by.
