Hey BBC What Size Are All These Countries?

See update below.

Following up on my discovery yesterday that the BBC Sport website is once again singling out the Jewish state for special negative treatement (the classic definition of antisemitism or Jew hatred as I prefer to call it), I sent them a complaint. Again. Number 3 actually.

I have complained twice about this web page giving details related to Israel and my country’s participation in the Olympics.

You now list the size of Israel but include a strange qualification as to where the figure comes from and which territory it includes. I do not see you qualifying this for any other country in the world where boundary disputes put the size in some doubt.

Why do you single out the Jewish state for special negative treatment? Treating Jews negatively & differently is the definition of antisemitism (I prefer the term Jew hatred).

Please consider the following:
Does the BBC note whether the Russian figures include the Kuril Islands?
Does it note whether Pakistani and Indian figures include parts of Kashmir?
Does it note whether Indian figures include Lathitila?
Does it note whether Armenian figures include Nagorno-Karabakh?
Does it note whether Chinese figures include Aksai Chin or Taiwan?
Does it note whether Serbian figures include Kosovo?
Does it note whether UK figures include Gibraltar, the Falkland islands and Chagos archipelago?
Does it note whether Georgian figures include Abkhazia?
Does it note whether Moroccan figures include the Western Sahara?
Does it note whether Ethiopian figures include Badme?
Does it note whether Cypriot figures include Turkish Cyprus?

I await their response with interest. I wonder if this time they’ll directly blame my complaint on a shadowy cabal of evil Zionists?

Update for some who aren’t quite seeing the problem:

None of this has anything to do with the relative sizes of any of these places. It’s that THE ONLY BORDER DISPUTE IN THE WHOLE WORLD that BBC Sport knows about is the one involving THE ONLY JEWISH state in the world.

Almost every Arab and Muslim country has a dispute with its own Arab or Muslim neighbours. Many millions of people have been killed over these (India Pakistan Bangladesh for example). All the BBC can single out is little tiny Israel. That is special negative treatment for Jews.

That is a problem. That is the point.

15 thoughts on “Hey BBC What Size Are All These Countries?”

  1. Jim from Iowa

    I don’t consider the BBC the source authority on much of anything, but wouldn’t it help your case, Brian, if the Israeli government were to actually annex Judea and Samaria? As I understand it, this land is still considered by the state of Israel to be “disputed territory” subject to a negotiated settlement with the Palestinian Authority, and currently administered by the IDF.

    1. Better yet, why isn’t Gaza considered an independent state when de facto it is in every respect other than diplomatic formality?

      1. I suspect because they consider themselves a small part of “occupied Palestine”. In other words, they don’t want to be.

    2. I think the point is Jerusalem and the Golan. Actaully, we haven’t even technically annexed the Golan, if I undersatand the issue correctly (and I may not).

      Where would you even put the green line, a thick crayon line on a map, in Jerusalem, where it cuts right through neighborhoods? What if people live right on it? (I actually went to school in what was once no-man’s-land.) At any rate, they are including West Jerusalem also, as disputed.

  2. Kudos to the Reverend Charles Lester Kinsolving, Helen Thomas’ “Good twin”, and gadfly to presidents since at least Nixon, for pushing forward a question Obama’s press secretary would not answer: What is Israel’s capital? As he said – if she knew the answer, (as Carney said), she wouldn’t ask!

    The guy often asks weird questions, but he was a lonely voice trying to stop Jim Jones before the mass suicide (Jones was in big with the Democratic party), responsible (with Rabbi Avi Weiss) for the expulsion from the NCC of holocaust pogrom artist “Archbishop” Valerian Trifa (later deported), and the only radio host I know of who support Pollard. (I believe all of this because I spoke to Rabbi Weiss and he confirmed the association.)

  3. “Jew-bashing” is a good term, also. (Did you forget Corsica?)

    Actually, for the BBC even accepting Israel’s figure in something.

    Why don’t they stop the ridiculous spending, and decentralize the olympics? They could have events all over the world, in existing facilities. In fact, there should be a rule that the facility must be at least two years old.

  4. ShaneAtTheBar

    It’s pretty obvious, even to me, that this isn’t Jew-hatred. It’s more like fear of Arab/Muslim/Palestinian hatred.

      1. And the Arabs hate the Jews, the BBC is doing their bidding. It’s the same result.

        All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to stand idle. They’re not even idle, they’re helping evil.

        They hate Jews.

  5. Jim from Iowa

    What are you guys complaining about? According to Romney, compared to the industrious Israelis, the Palestinians are all still living in their parents’ basements.

    1. Jim from Iowa says:
      July 30, 2012 at 9:56 pm

      According to Romney, compared to the industrious Israelis, the Palestinians are all still living in their parents’ basements tunnels.

      FIFY

    2. It’s not just according to Romney, it’s something reality bears out. Shy Guy’s “tunnels” edit is exactly the point: Where a real nation interested in its own well-being and prosperity would have made the most out of Bill Gates’ gift of greenhouses, these savages, who have never desired to build anything but only to destroy what we Jews have built, burned those greenhouses to the ground at the first opportunity, and in the resulting sand lot they dug tunnels for smuggling rocket materials.

      Under Arab/Islamic [mis]management, this land inevitably goes back to the way it was in 1882, the beginning of the Zionist renewal. A vengeful mindset is the only way the world gets to ignore those facts and support the desolators of the land over those who toiled and with HaShem’s blessing finally made it bloom.

      1. As I suggested earlier, Gaza is de facto independent. Accordingly, Israel could shake up the peace process by officially recognizing this fact. The advantage here is that should the rockets fall again, Israel can then formally declare a state of war and act accordingly, even demand the enemy’s unconditional surrender. The harrumphs of the diplomats should be fun to watch.

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