Jonathan Cook – jonathan-cook.net/ Oct 4, 2024
News at Ten warns “Many will find his comments abhorrent” as Khalil al-Hayya deplores attacks on Israeli civilians, urges a ceasefire and seems ready for a two-state solution
The BBC no longer bothers to hide the fact that its news service acts as nothing more than the British state’s willing propaganda channel.
Last night on the News at Ten, Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen secured a rare interview with Hamas’s deputy political chief, Khalil al-Hayya.
Anchor Clive Myrie introduced the segment by warning: “Many will find his comments abhorrent.” But the only person making abhorrent assertions was Myrie himself, observing that, in the interview, the Hamas leader “claims the Palestinian people have faced violence at the hands of Israel for several decades”.
No, Clive. The world’s highest court, the International Court of Justice, as well as every major human rights organisation, has concluded that Israel’s belligerent military occupation of the Palestinians’ territory is illegal and violent – not as a claim, but as an indisputable fact.
Israel’s refusal to recognise a Palestinian state and allow Palestinians self-determination; Israel’s building of hundreds of illegal settlements on Palestinian land and the transfer of Israeli Jews, often militia groups, into those settlements; Israel’s 17-year siege of Gaza; and Israel’s collective punishment of the Palestinian people to force them to submit to these indignities, are all forms of structural violence. Again, that is not a claim. It is how international law judges what Israel has done and is doing.
Next, Myrie required Bowen to justify at length why the BBC was allowing a Hamas political leader – not a military leader – to be given air time. Note, al-Hayya’s boss, Ismail Haniyeh, was assassinated by Israel while he was involved in negotiations to bring about a ceasefire. Like some kind of gangster, Israel murdered the man on the other side of the table it was supposed to be talking to.
The BBC provided none of that as context, of course, for its interview. It was too busy placating Israel and the British government by issuing apologies and warnings before it offered a rare insight into Hamas’ side of the story.
So what did al-Hayya say that was so “abhorrent”? Here are the main points al-Hayya raised in the interview – you can listen to his precise wording via this link – under Bowen’s mainly hostile questioning:
- Hamas launched its attack on October 7 because the world had forgotten about Gaza even as Israel was slowly strangling the tiny territory to death through its 17-year siege. Hamas wanted to put Gaza back on the international community’s radar, and had decided it could do so only through military action.
- Hamas fighters had been told not to target Israeli civilians on October 7, only Israeli occupation soldiers. Hamas does not endorse harming civilians. However, there were failings by individuals in sticking to that plan.
- Israel, not Hamas, is the party responsible for destroying Gaza as evidenced through its bombardments of schools, shelters and hospitals. Hamas’ killing of 1,200 people could not be used to justify Israel killing more than 50,000 people in Gaza. Israel is “motivated by the lust to destroy”.
- The accusation that Hamas uses the people of Gaza as “human shields” is not true. “They [Israel] destroyed mosques on the heads of their owners when there were no fighters. They destroyed houses and high-rise buildings when no one was in them… It is all Israeli propaganda.”
- Netanyahu is the one obstructing a ceasefire. Even if Hamas surrendered today, Gaza’s next generation would take up the struggle because the Palestinian people want their freedom and have a legitimate right to resist the occupation. “People need to understand that Israel wants to burn the whole region.”
- The Palestinians need a state and self-determination, and the Palestinian refugees a right to return to their homeland, if the region is ever to calm down.
- It is Israel trying to eliminate the Palestinian people, not the Palestinians destroying Israel. “Give us our rights, give us a fully sovereign Palestinian state… Israel does not recognise a one-state solution or a two-state solution. Israel rejects it all.”
- [Responding to a question about whether he considers himself a terrorist] “I’m seeking freedom and defending my people. To the occupation, we are all terrorists – the leaders, the women and the children. You heard what Israeli leaders called us: we are all animals.”
Now, one can debate whether al-Hayya’s statements are accurate or truthful, or whether he is being sincere. But nothing at all he says here can be viewed as “abhorrent” – unless you are shilling for Israel. He deplores attacks on civilians, he accuses Israel of bringing about Gaza’s destruction, he blames Netanyahu for blocking a ceasefire, and he appears to be ready to settle for a two-state solution, though he doesn’t believe Israel will agree to it.
In fact, his comments are far, far more moderate and far less inflammatory than statements regularly made by Netanyahu and most of the Israeli political and military leadership. Netanyahu, remember, is being sought by the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity, while the country he leads is on trial for what its sister court, the ICJ, considers a “plausible genocide” Netanyahu has incited and overseen. Not that the BBC ever mentions either fact.
And yet the state broadcaster never prefaces remarks from Netanyahu or other Israeli leaders – such as the self-declared fascist finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich – with any kind of warning, let alone one that many viewers may find their remarks “abhorrent”.
And while we are at it, if al-Hayya’s remarks are the yardstick, how was Keir Starmer’s comment that Israel had a right to deprive Palestinian civilians of food, water and fuel – that is, to collectively punish them by starving them to death – not also deemed “abhorrent” by the BBC?
What becomes ever harder to deny is that the BBC isn’t reporting what is happening in the Middle East. It is aggressively framing it in such a way as to present Israel as the victim of events, and thereby assist it in carrying out a genocide in Gaza and beginning a second slaughter in Lebanon.
I was interviewed twice by the BBC TV and once on BBC radio
each time what i said was edited twisted and bits cut out
I refused to go on ah=again
the old saying ” The BBC is bullshit time is bang on the button”
The BBC is a sick joke
they wanted to poach TV chappie Philip Schofield but on investiagtion found he was often stopped late at night with young boys in the car, TV solicitors always got him off
but its ben said that for 30 years hes been into young lads
not just one as claimed
On the live phone in you could plainly hear a man in the back ground shout
” go on nob those little boys philip ” it was disgusting that this was not edited out
BBC verdict corrupt and perverted do NOT buy a licence
i have not bought one in 25 years
The “peaceful” world of the UN means Islam takes over slowly. The UN is atheist and thinks the religions are just culture and do not matter, except that Churches are Whitey and are therefore bad
One point missing from all this….MOST of the correspondents reporting from the Middle East are crypto jews INCLUDING JEREMY BOWEN….This is true for American networks and British networks and most likely other networks too….Germany France The Netherlands (the latter being heavily jewified….I had problems there infact most countries in Europe….even Denmark.
Spain I never ascertained the answer there…but Italy for sure (they later sent an Italian jew who got a job where I was working in the UK.
Bowen is one of the jews who deny they are jews….understandable considering he works in the region.
So these damn jews routinely hide their identity…..they ALL routinely deceive the Goyim….so it is difficult for actual real news to make it out to the West….
Just recently I have had “harassment “….from these fiends or their accomplices….this has been stepped up ever since last October…..
World wide Network ??…of course they have….
Guess what Tommy Robinson and Katie Hopkins are tribe members….no surprises there.
All of this will come to a head around US election time.
Incidently these are the people who have opened the West to invasion…and they will endeavor to pump Europe ful with the ex jnhabitants of Lebanon and Syria.It is so blatant that even Joe citizen is catching on to what is happening.
Cook has miraculously just reached that conclusion?
There’s a lot of thicko sheeple out there, and it’s the BBCs job to keep them thick.
I don’t know how many years, but it’s a very long time since I’ve seen or heard any BBC content.
Reading Cook, you’d think the sheeple had woken up, and the BBC was pulling all the stops out to win back their audience. Even the sheeple who have alternative opinions, instantly return to the Nazi script as their default setting.
JEFFREY Epstein listed 301 British associates in a “little black book” of society figures uncovered by the FBI, it was revealed last night. Among the contacts were celebrities such as Mick Jagger, Kier Starmer Tony Blair The amazing James Randi and Richard Branson – as well as lords and ladies. Jeffrey Epstein, who died in jail while facing sex trafficking charges, had 301 Brits among his contacts, an FBI dossier said there were more than 1,000 numbers and dozens of email addresses between the Brits named in the book belonging to Prince Andrew’s pervert pal Gislane Maxwell who was used as a prostitute by her father for Mossad New Labour grandee Lord Peter Mandelson – who has 10 numbers, including one marked “direct line” one for “home” and another for “country home” – is also listed. Prince Andrew has 16 numbers to his name – including a mobile and lines for Balmoral and Sandringham palaces, where he had visited the royal. Andrew’s ex Sarah Ferguson is also named in the address book – with 18 phone numbers for her. The revelation in the FBI’s 2,000-page dossier on Epstein came as agents raided the pervy billionaire’s private US Virgin Island, dubbed “paedophile island”, yesterday. A large group of agents were going through documents to see who was being blackmailed TIES TO UK US authorities have also vowed to carry on investigating Epstein’s ties to the UK as part of their child sex trafficking probe – amid fears he could have offended overseas. The irish Kincora childrens home was a big favourite with Jimmy Saville and the amazing James randi who went after the young boys. One document is said to describe the “damning things” Epstein’s inner circle did as he abused more than 100 children from across the world, the Mirror said. A source told the paper: “The document entails everybody in the Epstein case. “It has some damning things, including about a number of Brits.” SUICIDE SHOCK Epstei was found dead days after being taken off suicide watch – reportedly at the request of his own lawyers. His suspected suicide is not thought to have been caught on CCTV and it has emerged that guards did not check on him for several hours. Epstein’s death – which has sparked intense speculation – came hours after a Manhattan court released a 1,200-page dossier detailing lurid abuse allegations against him and Gislane Maxwell known as ” The Trollop”
All the major UK news Corporate networks protect Israel and it’s sickening to witness the lie masquerading as fact. Only a brainless idiot with no moral compass would be buying into the US/Israel/UK terrorist propaganda dished out on a 24/7 basis. The biggest trick in the book is to falsely accuse the victim of the sadistic terrorism you commit yourself. “By Deception We Do War” (Mossad).
An independent Criminal Court/Tribunal is urgently needed now to not only indict and prosecute corrupt, lying politicians but a corrupt and lying mainstream media!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAmk4efA2t0
When political leaders speak of genocide, they repeat a timeworn mantra: “Never again.”
Over the past year, for the Palestinians of Gaza, “again” has become reality – mass casualties broadcast almost in real time by its victims.
This film is about an alternative version of that reality – the one told by major Western news organisations – and how it has provided cover for Israel’s war on Gaza.
Based on interviews with more than a dozen insiders, it lifts the curtain on the inner workings of agenda-setting outlets like CNN, the BBC and The New York Times.
Contributors:
“Adam” – journalist, CNN
“Sara” – former journalist, BBC
Ghassan Abu Sitta – reconstructive surgeon
Jodi Rudoren – former Jerusalem bureau chief, The New York Times
Jeremy Scahill – co-founder, Drop Site News
Craig Mokhiber – former senior human rights official, United Nations
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The Zionist media has no problem with Israel making good its threat of bomb Iran. Do it they say, we’ll tell our listening audiences Iran had it coming for being ‘terrorists’
In the years to come a Gaza holocaust museum would be a good idea. Names and photographs of those who made it possible should be displayed.
BBC and all other mainstream media including in Canada are all controlled or owned by the babylonian banksters. I surely do not have a tv or watch tv anywhere. Case in point, the public health facility that I worked at during the initial phase of the plandemic CBC used to come to the facility with their cameras and I stated to them there is nothing happening here, as you can see we have lots of empty beds, so do not go out there and announce that it is full of covid patients. This is another reason why the families were prevented from coming in…thus no witnesses to denounce the CBC. lies. Yes, mainstream media including other gate keeper sites are all about fear porn of lies and deceptions. And noticed sports agencies, events are also owned by the same babylonian banksters among many other and mostly all from the same tribes. All that is reported above by a Hamas representative is 100% factual. Do not give up indigenous Palestinians, Iran, Lebanon and other Arabs countries that stand with Palestinians and all the other victims to the talmud evil cult.
On the ground the ‘second slaughter in Lebanon’ shows that attempts sofar of the Israeli’s are met with detonating IED’s wich after carefull observation are planted from near zero ranges, results in retreating soldiers carrying bodies and the wounded back to the rear bases and barracks along the border line wich are shelled with artillery ..
“The BBC…acts as nothing more than the British state’s willing propaganda channel”..
As I’ve been trying to tell THICK Brits since at least the time that Benny Hill was cavorting across the screen being chased by either a pussy- posse or a bunch of flamin’ fggots…
not that my efforts have ever, to my knowledge, stopped anyone in that population of Programmed Proles from tuning-into the BBC for their daily-dose of pre-digested kosher-certified puerile propaganda pablum…
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Can we trust anyone from the Middle East to tell the truth if the facts go against their very strong ethnic and exclusive interests? Can we even trust our own selves in the West when the official policy is to cast a a blind eye to the fact that our establishments also use and have Israel (and the Jews) just as much as they use us, as a kind of beachhead against the Muslim held oil territories – the alleged justification being that we “need” the vast oil reserves of the ME now and for the future, as it is essentially the main energy source which we have built our economies and infrastructures around. Perhaps a few of us can see the source of the real conflict. However, if the facts were more openly spread around, then these accounts as to how and why Oct. 7 really happened would be more clear.
What has happened since Oct. 7 is genocide committed by the Jewish people and especially by the Jewish establishment, having more to do with an universal entitlement complex based on their alleged superiority or chosenness before God and everything else. Obviously, it was a highly planned operation just as the fingerprints indicate Israel doing the actual wet work in 9/11. While the talk of two states goes on there will be the NGO’s and US craft along the shores of Gaza helping in the ethnic-cleansing and land clearance operations to ship the hapless people to our shores.
When we observe the Israeli NGO’s with those of the US hard at work herding people from north Africa and the ME into Latin American nations to snake north to the US border over the past 10 years, we have to see the method behind the apparent madness. Any organization under the control of the Rothschild dynasty money power is an instrument of their long range plans, and the Greater Israel project is most clearly the long sought-after dream of that dynasty becoming reality. Control of the oil, the Suez, and the proposed ME trade hub, for the chosen people is the real goal. However, there has to be some place for all of those displaced and “subhuman” Arabs to go? For instance, just what percentage of the illegal immigrants which have been pushed into Europe are refugees from the Syrian and other ME conflicts instigated by the Rothschild dynasty, Israel and the oil-hungry West?
I can add the name Russell Brand to the list. He flew to the island together with Diddy the diddler.
@Aleisternickoff
A Gaza Holocaust Museum- what a Brilliant idea!!
Set one up on the streets outside Parliament with photos and videos rolling continuously…lots of noise & protestors to cause major attention with tourists & MPs!! Also at the site of (((Holohoax))) proposed memorial in Westminster gardens
This would really shit the UK kike mafia up!
the west fight kikes with words..pathetic and harmless
Arabs fight them with missiles and bullets – REALISTS!
kikes dont give a Flying Fuck what you say or think about them – in fact, they LOVE the notoriety & attention (being hollow heartless narcissists). They have all your money.
The only thing they pay attention to is direct physical confrontation & violence…then they stop smirking & start running…
Carl Jones–some of us like Nazis and only wish they were dominant as in your vivid imagination
we need to start burning down synagogues
I was a rent boy and had to leave Australia
In the UK i worked for Robert Maxwell
i would research and be friend conspiracy minded people
like the london tattooist who exposed fake bombings
after i lost my job i would go on date sights befriend women and rob them
and do fake psychic readings
but i am now a born again christian, even so we must now start burning UK synagogues