The stinking bias that pollutes even the BBC
In today's news you have a picture of Ehud Olmert looking all pensive and serious. Then in another picture you have yet another picture of the leader of Hezbollah in fire and brimstone mode, mouth open, shouting, finger pointed upwards. It's full on Osama bin Laden mode. Don't the BBC know what they're doing? Duh, like he's got a beard and he's furious - goddamn terrorist obviously.
Sadly it's not that easy to define who are the terrorists and who are the people who just want their land back. Is Bush a terrorist? In my eyes, yes he is. Is Olmert a terrorist? Again, yes he is. Are Hezbollah terrorists? Yes they are, but the clear difference in some respects of the present conflict (and this is clearly mirrored on the ground in Iraq) is that they are trying to expel invaders from their land, and have been doing so for a long time with very little in the way of support of sympathy from the world's media. in the Palestinian territories it is the same thing. And never once are they referred to, in the western media anyway, as freedom fighters, which if you look at it close enough is what they really are. The bias in the media has to stop because it pollutes and distorts reality. And in the west people have to escape the clutches of historical bias to see the reality on the ground because unless that, and wars of land grab and control of natural resources, stop then neither will the terrorism stop. It's a no-brainer I'm afraid, but when we have a no-brainer US president leading the show is that then a surprise?

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