Israel - BBC Upset at Peace Talks

Melanie Phillips notes continuing bias by the BBC.

Switching on BBC News 24 just before going to bed last night, I had the disagreeable experience of being subjected to the poisonous ignorance and prejudice of Lauren Booth who was reviewing this morning's papers. Looking at the pictures of the handshake between Ariel Sharon and Mahmoud Abbas, she complained that while the stories said that Abbas had promised an end to Palestinian violence, there was no equivalent mention of any end to 'Israeli violence' -- only Sharon's promise of an end to 'military activity'.

This of course revealed her gross failure to grasp the fundamental moral difference between Palestinian and Israeli 'violence' -- that Palestinian violence is aggressive terror with the aim of murdering the innocent, while Israeli violence is the military defence of the country's citizens against such murderous terrorism.

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