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THE BBC isn t slowing up on anti-Israel bilge inflaming pro-Palestinian protests and seeing fearful Jews emigrating.
National newspapers praised BBC TV’s Louis Theroux: the Settlers about Israeli nationalists setting up homes in disputed areas. The i newspaper’s Gerard Gilbert described the documentary maker, son of an English mum and American journalist dad, as “a serious documentarian of considerable weight” and his latest work “among his best”. The Fleet Street publication's slogan ironically is: “Impartial news + intelligent debate”. Both Theroux and Gilbert painted egregious narratives of little resemblance to historical truth. Is there settler violence? Yes, but it’s tit-for-tat. Do the Israel government, police and defence forces turn a blind eye, and sometimes aid religious extremist aggression? Yes, but it’s far below the biblical “eye for eye, and tooth for tooth” command. It bears no resemblance to the severity of Hamas horrors meted on October 7, 2023, or the Fatah-run Palestinian Authority’s financial rewards to murderers of Israeli Jews. As a Hebrew Bible believer, there's a plethora of texts stating Jews would be exiled for spiritual disobedience and then brought back in perpetuity to the land divinely decreed to descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, but Israel’s rebirth is justified from a non-biblical basis. Eastern European pogroms saw Jews emigrating to the Holy Land from the late 19th century. They made the desert blossom, which attracted labour from neighbouring Muslim nations. Jew and Arab numbers grew exponentially. Against the League of Nation Mandate terms the UK curbed Jewish immigration when it should have allowed free entry into the land, then called Palestine. This was the result of Arab pressure against plans for a Jewish state. Imams teach that land conquered by Islam remains theirs for ever. Mosques fuelled violence against Holy Land Jews from 1920s onwards. Palestine Liberation Organisation leader Yasser Arafat founded the Fatah (conquest) political party dedicated to the liberation of Israel by armed struggle. Theroux and Gilbert made no mention of this. Increasing Arab violence towards the 20th century end saw Israelis taking reciprocal violent action and building homes in disputed areas. “Never again” was the Jewish cry following the Holocaust, and immigrants are at the vanguard of the settler drive to inhabit parts of Judea and Samaria ie West Bank. “Where we don't settle, terrorism grows,” a Texan armed settler told Theroux. Gilbert wrote: “Theroux finds this colonisation process far more advanced — and more violent” from his 2011 documentary The Ultra Zionists. Theroux ends his latest film overlooking Gaza, where Jewish settlers were said to have 80 caravans poised to move on to the war-torn enclave, home to two million Arabs. Gilbert states: “It’s at this point that Theroux is told to stop filming — there’s a learned distrust of the media at work here, but also (dare we hope?) an inherent sense of shame.” He had earlier referred to Palestinians being called “savages and camel-riders” by rabbis and said the documentaries gave a “fully rounded picture”. To those who know the history of the Jewish state, Gilbert’s incorrect conclusions are a disgrace to journalism. He fails to mention the unanimous League of Nations decision to grant land from the River Jordan to the Mediterranean to the future Jewish state. The larger part of the Ottoman Empire Palestine territory went to the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan which is around 70 per cent Arab, Palestinian if you like. These decisions were rubber-stamped by the United Nations in 1945. In the wars of 1948, 1967 and 1973, neighbouring Muslim nations vowed to wipe Jews of the Middle East map. The Hamas Charter calls for the planet to be Jew-free. Israel has had enough of periodic wars, and to achieve lasting peace must eradicate the threat of the death cults Hamas and Fatah. Just as the Allies snuffed out Hitler’s fascist Germany, the Jewish state has to do the same with enemies swearing genocide.
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