BBC Blasted for Refusing to Air Plea for Humanitarian Aid for Gaza Victims

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(NaturalNews) When 13 charity organizations helping to feed, treat and bury all the victims of the Israeli attack on Gaza attempted to run an ad on the BBC asking for humanitarian financial aid, the response they received shocked the whole world: No!

The BBC has refused to allow the ad to be aired, infuriating even veteran BBC journalists who are now beginning to realize just how deeply their own organization is involved in the politics of censorship.

Young children in Gaza are suffering from the devastating wounds of war, with arms and legs lost to exploding munitions and burns on their skin from the white phosphorous rained down upon civilian populations by the Israeli military. Like any children caught in a war, they need food, water, medicine and shelter.

I dare ask: Is it not the right thing to aid these victims of war?

Set aside for a moment who's right or wrong between Israel and Palestine. No sane person could reasonably believe that young children are at fault for the escalation of violence in the region. And yet they are the ones suffering from this war. Do we not have the right as compassionate human beings to ask for humanitarian aid for those children?

Or is it really the position of the BBC that these children should suffer and die simply because they were born on the wrong side of the wall?

Protesters stormed the BBC's offices yesterday and were finally beaten back by police. Religious leaders, politicians, statesmen and government ministries have all expressed outrage at the BBC for this censorship decision that would deny the ability of the British Red Cross, Save the Children and other non-profits to appeal for humanitarian aid.

I want to be very clear about my position on this matter, even at the risk of losing a few NaturalNews readers who disagree: I believe humanitarian aid is never a crime. Giving food and medicine to bleeding children in Gaza is the right thing to do. These actions are simply based on human compassion, and they should never be labeled as crimes or restricted by the mainstream media.

It doesn't mean I condone the actions of all Palestinians. Do not misconstrue my compassion as an endorsement of every action made by people who participate in the escalation of war. Rather, my sense of compassion is based on the fundamental desire to end human suffering, even for those humans we disagree with or wish to condemn.

If you disagree with me on this, then you are an enemy of the Red Cross, by the way. The Red Cross was founded on the principle that all victims of war deserve humanitarian medical aid, regardless of which side they're fighting for. This is a deeply religious principle, by the way: That even those you disagree with deserve some form of human dignity as they are dying from the wounds of battle.

Even the Bible itself defends this position. I'm no Bible scholar and can't quote the exact passages, but I get the big picture of its teachings, and it sure doesn't say "Let the children of your enemy suffer and die," which is apparently what many hate-filled war promoters believe at the moment. To adopt such a view is, technically, genocidal by definition.

Besides, humanitarian aid improves relations between opposing factions. When one side of a war offers to give humanitarian aid to the opposing side, it actually improves the long-term outlook of peace between the two parties. When such aid is denied (or actively blockaded), it has the opposite effect: It breeds more future violence and even serves as a recruiting tool for new extremists.

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