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| BBC Film Compares Israel to Iraq on BBC2 Sunday 16 |
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| Aafreen |
| 03/16/03 at 10:17:03 |
| BBC Film Compares Israel to Iraq on BBC2 Sunday 16th March 7.15pm the Correspondent. BBC 2 Under fire from Zionist lobby ... will you support the brave team that made the program or let them fight alone? Email address: correspondent@bbc.co.uk If you would like to email BBC Current Affairs programmes and congratulate them simply email them above : Correspondent Team that dared to Speak out: Editor : Karen O'Connor Deputy Editor : David Belton Web Producer : Andrew Jeffrey http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/correspondent/2837671.stm Or go to the link above and write your comments to the BBC showing your support NOW! Get off your sofa and show some meaning to the word "BROTHER and "SISTER" we banter so much. You are accountable no doubt about it. Make yourself accountable before Allah asks for your account. Make it a habit to write, and call in. Nurture your love for your brothers and sisters. Learn to be active, it doesn't happen overnight. Teach the younger Muslims to be active instead of "do as I say, not as I do." http://mpacuk.org/mpac/data/6ea66910/6ea66910.jsp Go to the MPAC link to find out more on how to write and what to say! For the sake of your own skin at least if you believe in a heaven and hell. Stand up and be counted. Mordechai Vanunu: a BBC documentary uses an examination of the Christian convert's story to make a link between Iraq and Israel Photo: AP COMMUNAL anxiety over linkages between Israel and Iraq was fuelled this week by a BBC 2 film alleging that the Israeli Army used a "new gas" against Palestinians. The film, due to be broadcast on Sunday night at 7.15, ostensibly deals with Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu, but also asks whether there's a double standard in the world's treatment of Israel compared to that of Iraq. The concern over the film came as the Board of Deputies protested to Christian Aid about a campaign by the charity to encourage members to send postcards to Prime Minister Tony Blair urging both a peaceful resolution to the Iraq crisis and an "end to Israel's illegal occupation of the West Bank." The BBC film, "Israel's Secret Weapon," is part of the Correspon-dent series and draws explicit links between Israel and Iraq, according to a pre-transmission transcript seen by the JC. "Which country in the Middle East has undeclared nuclear weapons?" it asks. "Which country in the Middle East has undeclared biological and chemical capabilities? Which country in the Middle East has no outside inspectors?" At one point in the programme, presenter Olenka Frenkiel - who appeared on BBC radio on Monday ahead of the TV broadcast - challenges former Israeli Premier Shimon Peres: "There's a cry going up talking of a double standard, that the world has to check Iraq for nuclear installations, but not Israel." Rejecting the comparison, a clearly angry Mr Peres says of Saddam Hussein: "He's not a leader, he's a killer. You cannot say it of us." But Ms Frenkiel retorts: "Even in Israel, there are some who do." The film goes on to state that Israel used "a new gas" against Palestinians in Gaza in February 2001, resulting in the hospitalisation of 180 people with "severe convulsions," according to the transcript. It continues: "Israel is outside chemical and biological weapons treaties and still refuses to say what the new gas is. No one knows what happened to the patients admitted to hospital that night." An Israeli military official this week described the allegation as "a lie. We do not use gas." The Israeli embassy in London has declined comment on the programme until officials have seen it. Ms Frenkiel's pre-broadcast remarks on Radio 4's "Start the Week" sparked objections from a number of listeners. One complainant to the BBC argued that there had been "unsubstantiated and negative implications stated as facts, causing a massive distortion... which if allowed to continue can lead to the gravest of consequences." Meanwhile, the Board, already angry over aspects of a recent Christian Aid report on Palestinian poverty, has objected to the organisation over its postcard campaign. "The question of war with Iraq is completely distinct from efforts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict," board director-general Neville Nagler wrote to the charity. "It is disingenuous, if not highly offensive, to imply that resolving that conflict should take priority over Iraq." In response, a Christian Aid representative said the charity believed a "twin-track approach to peace in the Middle East is essential" and offered to meet board representatives to "discuss their concerns." Asked whether Christian Aid's campaign breached charity rules on political activity, a Charity Comm-ission spokesman said it had made contact about "concerns which have been raised with us. It is too early, at this stage, todetermine if any action will prove necessary." Links between the Iraq crisis and Israel have also been suggested by the Muslim Council of Britain. Rejecting war against Iraq, General-Secretary Iqbal Sacranie, who was among a delegation of Muslim leaders who met Mr Blair, urged steps to "force Israel to comply with all relevant UN resolutions on Jerusalem and Palestine" and "to cease forthwith the brutalisation of the Palestinian people."Meanwhile, journalist John Pilger, whose TV documentary about Israel and Palestine caused a storm, told students at Bournemouth University that most complaints about the programme had come from the “vociferous pro-Israel lobby in America!" The media war in Europe is starting to heat up with western journalists starting to realise the oppressive nature of Ariel Sharons administration. As one IDF commander said "if we lose the media war in Europe we will lose the real war here". This shows the importance of conveying the truth to the public. We have to keep the pressure up on media instituitions letting them know that we will not settle for less than top quality impartial journalism. Already Zionists are calling up radio channels like LBC and writing in to complain before they have even seen the program. They silenced Vanunu ..will you let them silence the BBC, email them and support the brave team now! MPAC - ACTIVE ISLAM www.mpacuk.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
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