Hamas doing it's part for the peace process and the world turns a blind eye:

Western media sources have been almost completely silent over the latest crackdown by Gaza's terrorist outfit Hamas on opposition political activists.

While The Telegraph's Robert Tait reported on 'fears' of a crackdown, and The Guardian effectively copy-and-pasted an Amnesty International press release, other outlets in the Western world have abdicated their responsibility to report a further deterioration in the terrorist enclave which has operated under a totalitarian dictatorship since Hamas came to power and refused any future electoral process.

Ma'an News Agency reports:

    "Hamas security forces have launched an arrest campaign against Fatah leaders and affiliates in the Gaza Strip, Fatah said in a statement on Sunday. Hamas security forces raided the home of Fatah official Abed al-Aziz al- Maqadma on Thursday, confiscating his computer and mobile phone."

Violence against opposition members is worsening too, with Amnesty reporting that two men have recently been tortured and forced to confess to crimes they perhaps did not commit. The pair, due to be executed this week, are among 40 prisoners on death row in Gaza. If this happened in the United States, the world's media would rightly be outraged.

But for Hamas, and indeed for other regimes around the world, the media is happy to keep the cap on the lens. This is not only bigotry, as it presupposes that Arabs either don't know any better, or that we should not expect more from them, but it is also a gross abdication of the journalistic mantra to seek out and report the story, no matter who, where or what the case may be.

Particularly noteworthy is the absence of interrogation into the matters from the world's largest broadcaster, the BBC.

The publicly funded broadcasting outfit claims it goes the extra mile for the story, and claims to be impartial in its reporting. But the BBC has not only been shown to be biased in a domestic sense, but also in its international coverage.

When some buildings are built, the BBC is there, high-definition cameras at the ready, to capture what it frames as great injustices.

But when terrorists are holding an entire body of people hostage, imprisoning and executing opposition activists, the organisation falls silent.

In two, three, five years, or a decade, when the Palestinians in Gaza finally attempt to or succeed in overthrowing their oppressive rulers, the questions will be asked, like the questions are now of Mohammed Morsi, "Why did this happen? Why didn't we see it coming? Who knew?"

But the answer is that many of us did know. We just don't work at the BBC.

Media silence as Hamas cracks down on opposition