Tony Benn: If you wont broadcast the Gaza appeal then I will
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Stumble ThisTony Benn accuses the BBC ON AIR of capitualating to the Israeli Government by refusing to air an appeal for the Gazan people by the Disaster Emergency Commitee (DEC) he then broadcasts the Address himself much to the consternation of the interviewer!
Disaster Emergency Commitee (DEC)
Gaza Crisis
PO BOX 999
LONDON
EC3A 3AA
Disasters Emergency Committee Gaza humanitarian appeal:
Launched by UK charities on 22 January to raise money for Gaza aid relief and reconstruction
Participants: Action Aid, British Red Cross, Cafod, Care International, Christian Aid, Concern Worldwide, Help the Aged, Islamic Relief, Merlin, Oxfam, Save the Children, Tearfund, World Vision
Information on 0370 60 60 900 or at DEC website
via Reddit
Disaster Emergency Commitee (DEC)
Gaza Crisis
PO BOX 999
LONDON
EC3A 3AA
Disasters Emergency Committee Gaza humanitarian appeal:
Launched by UK charities on 22 January to raise money for Gaza aid relief and reconstruction
Participants: Action Aid, British Red Cross, Cafod, Care International, Christian Aid, Concern Worldwide, Help the Aged, Islamic Relief, Merlin, Oxfam, Save the Children, Tearfund, World Vision
Information on 0370 60 60 900 or at DEC website
via Reddit
I guess I also missed the bit where the BBC is somehow trying to suppress the details of this charity rather than just wanting to distance themselves editorially from it. Having this story on the front page of their news site for 2 days must have confused me.
And bonus points for the Global Zionist Conspiracy popup text. Nice.
The BBC coverage of this conflict all but stopped after the initial 3 days.
"People will die because of the BBC decision!"
Maybe the Queen will knight him and give him a destrier and a lance.
*quixote
''I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!'' -Howard Beale
"This" should be "it," no?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutton_inquiry
He didn't fight through armed guards, he didn't battle his way onto the set, no, what he did was go on the show, and do the right thing. Which is more than any of us can do. Especially you with your fucking "oh well done" attitude, he didn't ask for your approval on a knighthood, dickhead.
"Gee, he is very brave. All of those British people without access to the internet, who can't possibly Google around to find a Palestinian charity."
Comments like that are rediculous. By your logic, why would a charity go on TV and advertise? People can simply google!
And shit, people know about world events taking place, why have news programs? People can google.
Why have ANYTHING when you have google, right!?!?!?
IF you can't work out why what you said is stupid, you're too stupid to take part in a conversation here. Go find a lolcat.
PWNED!
Perhaps they brought him on knowing he would give out the information so they wouldn't have to compromise their own impartiality? The information was put out on air on the BBC and it wasn't part of an official BBC decision. Win-Win?
Try running through that metaphor again, only this time it's his house, you've kept him locked in the basement for the past 60 years, and no one in the world is interested in helping him get rid of you.
60 years, and no one in the world is interested in helping him? All the people in the world are slackers? I don't think so!.
Try running through that metaphor again, only this time it's his house, you've kept him locked in the basement for the past 60 years, and no one in the world is interested in helping him get rid of you.
My dad says the same thing re: hamas. Ok, they're shelling another country, and that's bad, and that's as far as he sees it. He doesn't remember/seem to know/care about the poor treatment being suffered.
A piece on the news telling about how they have to tunnel underneath israel into egypt (?) in order to get important food, water and medical supplies out came on TV the other night, and he said "There's no way they're getting food and water in through there." Case closed, for him.
Some people genuinely side with israel.
I side with no one, i think they've both done bad things, but i'm starting to come around to the likeness of "ghetto rioting", and perhaps what hamas has done is in some way "reasonable", in a vague sense of the word.
My guess (and it's just a guess) is that they expect the blockade to continue no matter what they do, so their chosen option is to provoke Israel into causing such a humanitarian crisis that other countries finally step in and tell Israel to stop, possibly by force.
I honestly don't see the actions of either side as surprising. People in Gaza (HAMAS or individuals) are intentionally provoking Israel and Israel is responding with excessive force.
>> ^NobleOne:
''I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!'' -Howard Beale
"This" should be "it," no?
I stand corrected.