Lack of intelligent reporting in Western Media

Here are some excerpts from the latest BBC correspondent Richard Miron's coverage on Israeli settlement.

"Wandering along a nearby dusty path are Palestinian women with heavy loads on their heads...

Their homes and fields sit a few hundred meters from the settlements, but belong to another world.

Some live in shacks covered with plastic roofs. Conditions appear basic and the nearby homes of the settlers look palatial by comparison."

Basic! When is plastic roof on a shack considered basic? A one bathroom house with an eat-in kitchen is what we consider basic! Then he sums up the situation - "Israel, which has been here for almost four decades, appears to have done little to advance their living standards."

Are you kidding me? The Palestinians were displaced from their homes and their land, forcibly! This dimwit seems to be saying that they had always lived in plastic covered shacks and the only wrong Israel has done is the failure to advance their living standards! How stupid is that? What advancement? Five decades of armed occupation resulted in the Palestinians living in such desperate situation.

This part beats any Hindi movie - '"Numerous mortars and missiles have fallen here - over 6,000 in the last four years," he (a settler) says.' WoW! Over 6 thousand mortars and missiles rained down on these 80 settlers in the last four years; that's over 1500 each year! And they only had one wounded person to show the correspondent. Where there 3 million of them before?

An intelligent person would have asked these questions, let alone an international correspondent from a reputable news agency. This is the sad state of Western Media which we have to live with. Little wonder that we collectively chose to side with thugs, thieves and murderers, and indenture ourselves as their slaves.

To read the report http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4094828.stm