Retaliate first?

Here are two curious reports from the BBC website. In the first, Israel kills five Palestinians in a raid on Tulkarm in the West Bank. According to Israel, the five were wanted in connection with suicide bombings. Further down the report we see that according to Reuters, Palestinian witnesses said that three of those killed were unarmed teenagers and that only two of the five were armed; one from Al-Aqsa Martyrs and one from Islamic Jihad. Funny how the BBC prefers to take its cue from a state that has murdered one of its staff in preference to a prestigious news organisation, but it gets curiouser. The latest report expresses the bewilderment of the Israeli press at the fact that there was a suicide bombing yesterday. Now the first report has Islamic Jihad threatening revenge for Thursday's Israeli raid. None of the Israeli papers quoted by the Beeb in the later report mention the Israeli raid at all. Again the BBC has taken its cue from Israel. Now in my last post on the Muslim Council of Britain I had a comment from the Muslim Anarchist describing the MCB as "useless". It's pro-zionist reporting like this from the BBC that's in danger of giving the MCB a good name.