{"id":244059,"date":"2026-07-15T15:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T15:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/244059\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T15:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T15:45:10","slug":"video-bbc-in-bethlehem-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/244059\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: BBC in Bethlehem | CAMERA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Transcript:<\/p>\n<p>The BBC describes the barrier around Bethlehem as a towering concrete wall stretching through the city. <\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s just one problem: most of it isn\u2019t a wall. Approximately 95% of the barrier is a chain-link fence. Only about 5% consists of concrete wall sections, primarily in areas where snipers and terrorist attacks once targeted Israeli civilians. <\/p>\n<p>The barrier was built during the Second Intifada after years of suicide bombings and terrorist attacks that killed hundreds of Israelis. <\/p>\n<p>Since its construction, those attacks have fallen dramatically. <\/p>\n<p>As usual, the BBC\u2019s audience gets an incomplete picture<\/p>\n<p>See also \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.camera.org\/article\/the-trope-of-perpetual-reactivity-the-bbc-flattens-reality-in-bethlehem\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Trope of Perpetual Reactivity \u2013 The BBC Flattens Reality in Bethlehem<\/a>\u201c<\/p>\n<p>Comments are closed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Transcript: The BBC describes the barrier around Bethlehem as a towering concrete wall stretching through the city. There\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-244059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}