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Introducing France 24 Watch
Introduction to new project observing French media’s approach to Israel, antisemitism, etc. especially France 24. First effort Two Gazans die in tunnel. Continue reading
Save the Children from the Independent
Count the Children As a general rule Five Minutes for Israel ignores the Independent. Criticising any newspaper featuring both Robert Fisk and Ben White would be like criticising al Jazeera or Soviet-era Pravda. But the graphics in Israel reduces Palestinians’ permitted fishing zone … Continue reading
Environmental War Crimes! – Action Item
Petition to United Nations Environmental Programme to condemn Hamas. Links to International law on incendiary weapons and poison gases. Continue reading
Posted in 5MFI Blog, Action Items
Tagged banned incendiary weapons, banned poison gases, burning kites, Gaza
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Gas vs. Smoke
Contest HAMAS claims about teargas Tyre fires produce much smoke, which carries toxic chemicals from the breakdown of synthetic rubber compounds while burning. That includes cyanide, carbon monoxide, sulphur dioxide, and products of butadiene and styrene. The average passenger car … Continue reading
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Tagged Gaza, teargas, tire smoke, tyre smoke
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No fact checking in Ireland?
What concentration camps, Mr.Horgan? Fault-finders of Edward Horgan‘s ‘Standing up for Palestine’ in this week’s Ireland’s Sunday Independent newspaper (print, digital online) and Irish Examiner’s reader’s blog with slight changes in all three expect to be hit by the standard ‘Criticism of … Continue reading
Crikey Glenn Le Lievre
Eight frames – all wrong Editorial cartoonists make great propagandists – for either side. Even though they appear in news media a genuinely neutral cartoonist would probably be dead boring. ‘Crikey’† cartoonist Glenn Le Lievre is far from dead boring but one … Continue reading
Written in Cement
Why is Gaza reconstruction so slow? Let me count the ways How many BBC foreign correspondents does it take to change a light-bulb? None. The light-bulb is only broken if their favoured sources tell them that it is. Five Minutes for … Continue reading
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Tagged BBC, Gaza, Norwegian Refugee Council, Yolande Knell
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I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream
The ice-cream maker of Gaza Roger Hearing‘s piece. The ice-cream maker of Gaza could be written off if it was only yet another BBC magazine colour piece designed to show spunky Gazans (aren’t they all?) creatively surviving. but does that excuse him and the … Continue reading
Trapped
Reply to Gaza: land of the trapped This is the text of a letter I wrote to Kevin Doyle, author of Gaza:land of the trapped, about the printed article. Reply to the video which, at least to my mind contains worse errors, … Continue reading
Is this a victory?
BBC quietly alters boilerplate The Change BBC boilerplate on Gaza casualties to reflect disputed figures campaign delivered more than 700 signatures and received a bland we-will-think-about-it reply. Well, perhaps they did!
