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Sunday, March 15, 2009 sue # Ways of making them talk. What has the BBC got to say about the M.P.s who are talking to Hamas in Syria? Suicide-bomber sympathiser Jenny Tonge aims to force our government to talk to Hamas, and put pressure on the US to do so too. She said she was aware that her meeting with Meshaal could be considered illegal and that she could face arrest on return to the UK. "That is one of the risks that you take," she said, hoping for martyrdom, but stopping short of suicide. Will they they arrest Clare Short, Michael Ankram and Fianna Fáil TD, Chris Andrews too? He knows all about ‘talking’, what with the NI peace process - oh wait. The BBC has been strangely quiet about this, unlike several other news outlets, butSarah Montague is overtly in favour of talking to Hamas, - can’t wait for Today tomorrow. Comments: 12 (unread) - Biased BBC Home ed thomas # Quote unquote Number of Irish dissidents 'tiny' Police say the number of republican dissidents trying to wreck the Northern Ireland peace process is about 300. Not that I'm surprised or anything, but you can tell when the BBC are really "behind" a certain news narrative because the quotemarks go out the "window". Comments: 14 (unread) - Biased BBC Home sue # The one that nearly got away Last week on Saturday Live R4. there was an interview with a victim of a traumatic event, typical of the 'uman interest topics that characterises this programme. This one was unusual because the interviewee was survivor of the terrorist attack at the Munich olympics, Shaul Ladany, an Israeli athlete. Even more unheard of, the whole interview passed off entirely without a reminder of how evil the Israelis are - neither tagged on at the end, nor inserted in between. It was notably and remarkably absent. It was premature to assume that was to be the end of the matter. They wouldn’t let it lie. Because this week, a listener, *a British Jew*, emailed in; (15.52) and from the hundreds of texts and emails that they reputedly receive during the programme, this particular one was singled out for transmission. It said that Israelis are always portrayed on the BBC as “eternal innocent victims,” and the Arabs as “irredeemable irrational terrorists”, and wouldn’t it be nice if for a change they had a Palestinian on the programme to explain how hard life was for them. Would you Adam an’ Eve it? Israelis always portrayed as victims? On the BBC? Did she make a mistake and really mean Jews and the holocaust? Does proclaiming oneself to be a Jew bestow special dispensation, privilege, authority, meaningfulness, that lets one say something so ridiculous and so inaccurate? And do the programme makers think her idiotic comment was either worthy or necessary to provide an antidote to one little item that was neither critical of Israel nor condemnatory of Israelis that had slipped through the net for once in a million years? Comments: 6 (unread) - Biased BBC Home ed thomas # Biased BBC- a mini round up Man in a Shed notices the BBC's spin on the Government knife stats story. Nadine Dorries objects to Kirsty Wark and the unequal match up for Mr Choudhary Iain Dale questions another Opposition-lite day of Sunday politics coverage for the Left. Maurizio meanwhile, is "looking hard for reasons to believe" that the BBC's“Climate scenarios ‘being realised‘” article has not been written with the intent of misleading the average reader". Comments: 13 (unread) - Biased BBC Home