Comment Is Free, And Guardian Bias On Israel And Hamas Is Laughable
WAR in Gaza and the Guardian is on the case.
A letter to the paper.
As international lawyers, we remind the UK government that it has a duty under international law to exert its influence to stop violations of international humanitarian law in the current conflict between Israel and Hamas…
Further, the parties to the conflict must take all feasible precautions to minimise harm to the civilian population, and to allow and facilitate the rapid and unimpeded passage of medical and humanitarian relief to civilians in need.
More:
In particular, we call upon it to condemn publicly attacks by the parties to the conflict that target civilians directly, or fail to discriminate between civilians and combatants, or which are expected to cause disproportionate injury to the civilian population.
Both sides. Got that.
Afua Hirsch writes for the Guardian, and she too has seen the letter:
The letter argues that Israel has violated principles of humanitarian law, including launching attacks directly aimed at civilians and failing to discriminate between civilians and combatants. [Emphasis added by me - NG.]
How’s that for unbiased reporting?
As the Guardian boasts:
Comment is free, but facts are sacred
Posted: 15th, January 2009 | In: Media Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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January 19th, 2009 at 12:36 am
Any country that lets the press into a conflict zone - is a moron - unless the press are guaranteed to be on their side and in that case - why bother going?
January 16th, 2009 at 10:13 am
Er, I appreciate that emotions run high, but not even the most lunatic of supporters of Hamas or Israel would believe that writing a letter to a newspaper makes you a reporter.
It makes you someone who writes a letter to a newspaper. Reporters are a wholly different kettle of fish.
The letter in question is rather different in total content to the extract you have quoted; in fact I am sure that it was entirely unintentional on your part but you do seem to be afflicted with the compulsion to fillet out bits of the letter in question in order to misreprresent the contents as a whole.
And comparing orders of magnitude your misrepresentation of the letter goes a lot further than whatshernames.
We have problems knowing what is happening in Gaza, which makes accurate reporting somewhat more difficult, becase Israel refuses to let foreign journalists into Gaza.
Hint: free speach is meaningless if you bar the people from seeing something to freely speak about…
January 16th, 2009 at 1:16 am
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