Then on Friday morning, TV pictures of Indian commandos storming the besieged Jewish center were broadcast by networks around the What they seem to represent is a continuation of the last year or so, in which President Bush adopted policies that were more conciliatory, less combative and actively sought the help of other countries...A difference in tone, then. But in policies, not a million miles from the chastened and cautious Bush Administration of the past year. And in the New York Times, David Brooks similarly observes that one of these supposed hawks, Defence Secretary Robert Gates, has already been implementing Obama’s... The following letter has been received from Lord Patten of Barnes, Chancellor of Oxford University. I reproduce it here in its entirety. Your article, “Carpe diem -- or can we all relax now?” by Melanie Phillips (26 November 2008), repeats a number of patently false assertions about Robert Malley that are currently blighting the more dubious corners of the internet and do not belong in a respected publication. Mr Malley did not work for the Obama campaign, nor is he working for the transition team. He did not travel anywhere for Obama, neither before nor after the election. His work on the Middle East in recent years has been in his role as the Middle East and North Africa Programme Director of the International Crisis Group, where I am currently co-chairman. Ms Phillips uses a quote...
Tuesday, 2nd December 2008
The shameful silence of the BBC
4:15pm
In the Wall Street Journal,Tom Gross rightly draws attention to a troubling gap in the BBC's coverage of the Mumbai atrocities:For some time, many have argued that an element of antisemitism has distorted the way the BBC covers the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But now, following the Mumbai events, we can perhaps see that antisemitism may even be at work in the way the BBC covers foreign news in general. For much of the Mumbai siege, the BBC went out of its way to avoid reporting that the Jewish community center was one of the seven targets. At one point viewers were told that ‘an office building’ had been targeted (referring to the Jewish center as such).
...Continuity we can believe in
3:55pm
Two writers today make observations about Obama’s security team that underpin the point I made here: that those who think these appointments represent a lurch to the centre never grasped that President Bush’s own foreign policy lurched in this direction some time ago. In the Times, Bronwen Maddox notes of the so-called ‘hawks’:Letter
3:44pm
Tuesday, 2 December 2008
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