Monday, 2 February 2009

This is what I wrote to the BBC today pre-empting the Panaroma show next week.

I know that the BBC prides itself on its impartiality and I just wanted to write in to express my hopes that Jeremy Bowen will do justice in next week's Panorama to the terrible situation in Israel/Gaza. I hope that he will start by putting the situation in context i.e that for 6 long years Israeli citizens have had daily bombardment by Qassams, Grads and Ketusha rockets which by sheer miracle, have had few fatalities but many casualties-not to mention the psychological impact on the lives of Israeli civilians living in the South. I hope he will make clear that Hamas is a terrorist organisation that uses children as human shields. I hope that he will show the youtube images of Hamas firing from the UN School in Gaza. I hope he will show the Gazan Doctor who publically blamed Israel for the death of his 3 daughters and when there was an investigation, a piece of shrapnel from a Hamas bomb was found in one of the girls. I hope he will expose the mindset of a people intent on the destruction of Israel. I hope he will show images of the green houses left when the Israelis withdrew from Gaza in 2005 so the Palestinians could build a thriving enterprise for themselves BUT Hamas then destroyed them. I hope he exposes how BILLIONS of dollars have been poured into Gaza but instead of going to the humanitarian crisis, it has gone into the purchase of bombs, artillery and training camps for men and children. I hope he shows the youtube images where a Palestinian woman is interviewing a 3 yrs old(!) and asking her who are the sons and daughters of pigs and monkeys and who should we kill?

Thank you because after seeing Jeremy on Jon Snow's programme where Jon was baying for more blood and more bloody images, I was worried that our own Jeremy might not be so impartial after all.........

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