Robert Fisk on Al Jazeera maintaining that the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948 is central to the issue of justice and therefore peace in the region. Could you imagine such frankness on the BBC? They’d probably call it the disputed dispossession if they ever mentioned it.
Just as an example lets look at the main article, by Jeremy Bowen, in a section on the BBC website titled Israel at 60. Discussing 1948, Bowen states:
The reasons why the refugees left their homes are still bitterly contested, by historians as well as by leaders and activists.
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