Mick Hartley

Author: Mick Hartley

  • Kris Kristofferson 1936-2024

    ohnny Cash, he had the looks to be a major movie star, but, yes, the old drink and drugs kept getting in the way.

    Great songs, though. Songs that nobody else could have written:

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  • Institutionally hostile to Israel

    to Hamas as the “resistance”.
    • BBC Arabic platformed one guest who had previously referred to the 7 October massacre as a “heroic military miracle” and another who described Hamas atrocities against innocent Israelis as “necessary”.
    • BBC Arabic was forced to purge articles from its website including one that asked whether the Kfar Aza kibbutz atrocities really happened.
    • BBC Arabic failed to moderate antisemitic and offensive comments on its YouTube channel and encouraged a discussion about whether the killing of a 79-year-old Israeli woman was “terrorism” or “resistance”.
    • The BBC failed to remove graphs from its website that purported to show that 70 per cent of Gazan fatalities were women and children – after those figures were shown to be inaccurate.
    • The BBC routinely quoted figures produced by the Hamas Health Ministry without highlighting it as a terrorist-run organisation, and routinely failed to stress in reporting that Hamas fatality figures are unverifiable and include thousands of Hamas terrorists.
    • The BBC referred to Hezbollah not as terrorists but as a “heavily armed militant and political movement” in one story, while a BBC News Channel presenter suggested during an interview that Hezbollah terror attacks were in protest over Palestinian deaths.
    • The BBC referred to one killed senior Hamas fighter as an “advisor” rather than a terrorist, and portrayed an assassinated Hamas leader as a “moderate” rather than a terrorist under sanction in the US.
    • The BBC came under fire for calling Palestinian militants and activists killed in the conflict ‘journalists’. One BBC Arabic article described 69 “journalists” killed in the conflict, while evidence from their social media posts suggest 55 of them either supported Hamas or worked for the terror group.
    • The BBC used freelance journalists and eyewitness reports without due diligence on their social media accounts which would have revealed clear anti-Israel bias.
    • The BBC was forced to sack one employee who described Jews online as “Nazi apartheid parasites” and called the Holocaust a hoax.
    • The BBC failed to sanction high-profile sports presenter Gary Lineker who shared a BDS post calling for Israel to be banned from international sporting events.
    • The BBC failed to apologise for wrongly claiming the International Court of Justice had ruled that allegations Israel had committed genocide in Gaza were “plausible”.
    • The BBC refused to launch an investigation called for by its own Jewish staff and contributors after extensive broadcasting mistakes and repeated failures of due diligence on sources and guests
    • The BBC repeatedly reported Israeli strikes on Hamas command centres based inside school buildings as “strikes on schools” and repeatedly failed to explain the terror group’s use of innocent Palestinians as human shields.

    The full report is here.

  • Mr. Nasrallah

    While many (most?) Lebanese, and others across Syria and Iran, are very happy to see the back of this genocidal antisemite who's had his foot on Lebanon's throat these past decades, much of the western press are busy making idiots of themselves:

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  • The voice of Lebanese Christians

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  • Celebrating in Syria

    From MEMRI TV:

    A video posted on YouTube by the Enab Baladi Newspaper showed Syrians in Idlib who have gathered to celebrate the killing of Hizbullah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah. One Syrian said he had come to celebrate the killing of “the Dahia Dog” and expressed hope that Bashar Al-Assad is next.

    "The blood of our martyrs was avenged by Allah." Well, by the Israelis….

  • “Thank you Israel”

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  • “The sleaze, nepotism and apparent avarice are off the scale”

    y colleagues are at your total lack of understanding about how you have made us all appear.

    “How dare you take our longed-for victory, the electorate’s sacred and precious trust, and throw it back in their individual faces and the faces of dedicated and hardworking Labour MPs?”

    Ouch.

    Gender handmaiden Nadia Whittome was quick off the mark:

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    The replies have been, well…robust:

    You are a truly pathetic person. You can’t answer questions when challenged, you are a science-denying, truth avoiding fool & you have all the grace and poise of a bowl of tapioca.

    You make Nancy Kelly look intelligent

    You’re a traitor to women & probably one of the most unpleasant people I know of in politics

    That last from Sharron Davies.

    And this:

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  • A qualified Islamic scholar

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  • Facing an annihilationist threat

    offensive in southern Lebanon.

    Nasrallah’s death exposes the glaring omission in most of the media coverage of the conflict. Few outlets seem willing to recognise the fact that Israel faces an annihilationist threat from the Iran-backed terrorist group and its Islamist allies.

    At best, media reports will acknowledge that Hezbollah has fired thousands of missiles into northern Israel since 8 October 2023, the day after the Hamas pogrom. This of course is why Israel has had to evacuate 60,000 of its citizens from its northern communities. In rare instances, the media might mention that Hezbollah has flagrantly flouted a UN resolution to stay at least 12 miles from Israel’s border. But Israel’s deeper motivations for its conflict with Hezbollah and allied Islamist groups are rarely taken seriously.

    Instead, the media paint a picture of Israel as a malign, irrational actor wilfully slaughtering innocent civilians. This is demonstrated most clearly on Al-Jazeera, an international TV channel based in Qatar. It consistently portrays Israel as indiscriminately attacking Palestinian and Lebanese people, seemingly just for the sake of it. The BBC and Sky are not far behind when it comes to the demonisation of Israel.

    The annihilationist stance of Israel’s Islamist opponents ought to be hard to ignore. The absence of discussion about it is one of the strangest aspects of the coverage of Israel’s wars. Hezbollah, literally the ‘party of god’, is very open about its ultimate aim. Its foundational document, the 1985 ‘Open Letter’, states that:

    ‘Our primary assumption in our fight against Israel states that the Zionist entity is aggressive from its inception, and built on lands wrested from their owners, at the expense of the rights of the Muslim people. Therefore our struggle will end only when this entity is obliterated. We recognise no treaty with it, no ceasefire, and no peace agreements, whether separate or consolidated.’

    Here Hezbollah states that its goal is the obliteration of Israel, the ‘Zionist entity’. This is not a statement about Lebanese sovereignty, or a call for Palestinians’ freedom. Hezbollah has no interest in either concept. Rather, it frames its project in terms of the umma, the global Muslim political community.

    Although this programme is almost 40 years old, the leaders of Hezbollah have made countless similar statements over the years. In July this year, the late Nasrallah repeated a common Islamist metaphor when he called Israel a ‘cancerous tumour that must be eradicated’.

    Which is why Israel is doing what it must do to ensure its survival. It's just a shame that the UK has chosen this time to put a partial block on arms sales to Israel – though they seem to be doing well enough without our help or support.

  • The “trans woman” rapist

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    "Never mind journalism, the BBC, and other news outlets befooling themselves; this brings our justice system into complete disrepute. For anyone still declaring their pronouns in their bios and work emails — this obscenity is what it leads to."

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