The BBC failed to anticipate inevitable criticisms of the documentary 'Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone' and now looks like it's indulging in censorship.
The more I hear about Gaza, the more I feel that you can’t be allowed to just react to it. In a normal way. Like many “debates” these days about almost anything particularly on tv and I don’t just mean the BBC it seems to me to be about what the official line is and what your personal politics are. There is nothing less helpful or informative than having a bunch of politicians squabbling about it. I’ve started watching Middle East Eye for this stuff. I particularly trust Daniel Levy and Peter Oborne. I trust Peter Oborne on this issue after I started reading him in Byline Times (a paper I trust) because he’s a good reporter and the news from this paper is reliable.
I started seeing footage about Gaza on the news. When they were bombing hospitals. That was shocking. The kids saw it. They were shocked. Kids screaming covered in dust and rubble having lost entire families. Even the snapshot in your article. You can clearly see they’re starving to death now. And to think our arms were being sent there. I then watched the Al Jazeera documentary about the October massacre and that was terrible kids being executed at a concert.
David Collier in his own words
“I am 100% a Zionist ( ‘Zionism’, such a loaded word, a different meaning to every ear, but a discussion for another day). The perspective of some that believe Israel is a European colonial enterprise and everything since is a continuation of that original sin is both absurd and alien to me. I understand its origin, I appreciate the enormous divide it creates when discussing Israel, but I think it is an argument devoid of factual content, realism and context.”
The problem for me is just when are we able to discuss the context in which this is happening.
I have nothing against Mr Collier. But even he surely needs to understand that there comes a point where you have to confront the fact that bombing civilians living in an open air prison denied food or water or medical care regardless of your political views or whether you’re a Zionist is abhorrent. In fact many Israelis are angry at Netanyahu and protest widely which I think is under reported here.
Apart from the Jews whose European ancestors converted to Judaism, every other jew in Israel is distantly related to every Palestinian. The difference between them is that, a couple of thousand years ago, some Jews converted to Christianity, and a few hundred years later, some converted to Islam. This has been supported by DNA.
When Israelis claim that Palestinians are less than human, does that also make them - their brothers and sisters - also less than human?
They are both human, and each side needs to acknowledge that fact.
The more I hear about Gaza, the more I feel that you can’t be allowed to just react to it. In a normal way. Like many “debates” these days about almost anything particularly on tv and I don’t just mean the BBC it seems to me to be about what the official line is and what your personal politics are. There is nothing less helpful or informative than having a bunch of politicians squabbling about it. I’ve started watching Middle East Eye for this stuff. I particularly trust Daniel Levy and Peter Oborne. I trust Peter Oborne on this issue after I started reading him in Byline Times (a paper I trust) because he’s a good reporter and the news from this paper is reliable.
I started seeing footage about Gaza on the news. When they were bombing hospitals. That was shocking. The kids saw it. They were shocked. Kids screaming covered in dust and rubble having lost entire families. Even the snapshot in your article. You can clearly see they’re starving to death now. And to think our arms were being sent there. I then watched the Al Jazeera documentary about the October massacre and that was terrible kids being executed at a concert.
David Collier in his own words
“I am 100% a Zionist ( ‘Zionism’, such a loaded word, a different meaning to every ear, but a discussion for another day). The perspective of some that believe Israel is a European colonial enterprise and everything since is a continuation of that original sin is both absurd and alien to me. I understand its origin, I appreciate the enormous divide it creates when discussing Israel, but I think it is an argument devoid of factual content, realism and context.”
The problem for me is just when are we able to discuss the context in which this is happening.
I have nothing against Mr Collier. But even he surely needs to understand that there comes a point where you have to confront the fact that bombing civilians living in an open air prison denied food or water or medical care regardless of your political views or whether you’re a Zionist is abhorrent. In fact many Israelis are angry at Netanyahu and protest widely which I think is under reported here.
Apart from the Jews whose European ancestors converted to Judaism, every other jew in Israel is distantly related to every Palestinian. The difference between them is that, a couple of thousand years ago, some Jews converted to Christianity, and a few hundred years later, some converted to Islam. This has been supported by DNA.
When Israelis claim that Palestinians are less than human, does that also make them - their brothers and sisters - also less than human?
They are both human, and each side needs to acknowledge that fact.