Passive Killing
>> Monday, June 01, 2009
Thanks to Pounce for drawing my attention to this example of BBC bias.
Police raid! Allegations of torture! Zionist Agents!
All of this and more, but wait - Who has done these evil things?
Israel is not in the headline. Why not? Because this time Israel is not the culprit.
There doesn’t seem to be culprit at all.
In fact no-one in particular seems to have murdered anyone. Just Fighting. Fighting is what has killed six Palestinians.
That explains why the headline is not:
“Palestinians murder Palestinians in West Bank Gun Battle.”
BBC headline writers have a habit of taking all responsibility away from Palestinians, who just die from ‘fighting’ whereas Israelis “kill militants” and “strike children,” and if any Israelis should die, it’s from Fighting, Rockets, or Explosions. You know, the ones that just happen.