Since I don't personally know any young Israeli women who run posh shops catering to jetsetting fashionables, I don't have any emotional hook to the "children of Haifa". Not that it matters - disinterested observers of the Middle East wars (ie journalists) do better without hanging their emotions out for all to share. Fergal Keane's throbbing outrage (for BBC news) over the deconstruction of Lebanon and the "Qana massacre" is driving half the viewers wild with rage and giving the other half (me) stress headaches. I put "massacre" in quotes, because some people insist it was a carefully staged Hizbollah photo-op, not a massacre. I don't know.
What I do know is that the Beeb should think of pulling Keane out of Lebanon for a bit of quiet R & R before he has to see any more massacres. (Or "massacres".)
The BBC is taking a lot of stick for its coverage of the conflict. It is charged with being, a) generally anti-war (in a sloppy-liberal, bien-pensant way) and b) anti-Israeli (and therefore pro-Hizbollah, pro-Palestinian, pro-terrorist). And therefore anti-Semitic. I don't think anti-Semitic sticks, but the anti-war/anti-Israeli charge is harder to defend.
Yes it is. And it's looking more and more like Qana was staged.
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