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Up to the point that BBC is reluctant to call Hamas terrorists. The BBC is required by its charter to be impartial, it almost always reports "... Hama, designa
by jjgreen 3y ago
Up to the point that BBC is reluctant to call Hamas terrorists.
The BBC is required by its charter to be impartial, it almost always reports "... Hama, designated a terrorist organisation by the UK government, ...", which is impartial and true. The word "terrorism" means simply "uses violence of which I don't approve", Hamas, the US army, the Israeli army do similar sort of things, so that "The US is a terrorist state", "Hamas is a terrorist organisation" and so on are not statements of fact, but of opinion. The BBC should not express such an opinion.
- WesolyKubeczek 3y agoI dunno, when you kidnap an unarmed civilian to further your ideology, and cut their head off while filming and publicizing the whole thing, then it's maybe just a highschool brawl and not terrorism at all.
- jjgreen 3y agoI'll not be trading atrocities with you, but if the BBC were to report Israel routinely as "the terrorist state of Israel", do you think they'd be permitted to report from there? The impartiality is there for a reason.
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