British journalist questions whether legal action could be taken against pro-Palestinian commentators

It seems that some Western journalist have gotten so used to biased media reporting, that they view any true reporting to be worthy of legal persecution. This is the case with Daily Mail columnist, and Spectator correspondent Melanie Philips.

In a recent blog post, Philips goes on and on about the necessity for Israel to attack Gaza in self defense, meanwhile calling the UN a “Club of Terror”, and blaming Palestinian deaths on Hamas. She even condones the disproportionate civilian death toll suffered by Palestinians saying :

“Those who scream ‘disproportionate’ think – grotesquely -- that not enough Israelis have been killed. But that’s in part because Israel cares enough about human life to construct air raid shelters where its beleaguered civilians take cover.”

Philips assumes that starving Palestinians without electricity or food, should have been preparing shelters in anticipation of Israeli bombs. Perhaps Palestinians should blame the Club of Terror UN for not building bomb proof schools. Last week, a UN school where Palestinians have been taking shelter was shelled by an Israeli tank leaving over 40 civilians including women and children dead. Philips would probably condone Israel’s actions by saying something along of the lines of:

“Certainly, some civilian casualties are regrettably inevitable in any such situation – but particularly so in Gaza, since Hamas has deliberately sited its terrorist infrastructure amongst the civilian population”

But even this doesn’t hold ground since reports by Earth Times, Reuters and now Haaretz, have shown that there was no fire coming from the UN school where the refugees were taken shelter. But these kinds of reports wouldn’t please Philips. At the end of her misleading, poor journalistic post she asks:

“Isn’t there a case for legal action against these media outlets on account of their blood libels, for indirectly aiding the perpetrators of attempted genocide?”

And just to be clear here, the genocide Philips absurdly speaks of is that of the Israeli population inflicted by Hamas. A genocide perpetrated by a militia with home-made rockets, against the 4^th strongest army in the world, and the best technically equipped army, only second to the US.