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>> TUESDAY, JUNE 02, 2009

In last Saturday’s Telegraph, buried amongst the troughgate, was: “Lebanese accuse Britain and US of appeasing Hizbollah “ by Damien McElroy in Beirut.

“Leaders of Lebanon’s pro-Western government have accused Britain and America of “appeasement” of Hizbollah as the radical Muslim movement prepares to seize power.”[....]“ A British diplomat said that the decision to talk to Hizbollah was taken even though the Secret Intelligence service reported it was implicated in terrorist incidents in the past year.”

We are talking to Hizbollah, and by so doing we risk making things worse for the pro-Western government that we supposedly aim to support.

The BBC has joined in this ever increasing chorus of admiration for Iran’s proxy whose aim is to destroy Israel, their contribution being the latest episode of ‘We are all Hizbollah Now.”

Particularly telling is the word the writer, Natalia Antelava, uses to describe an attack on the US military barracks, and bombings of Israeli and Jewish targets. Not, this time, the popular and somewhat revealing “audacious.”

Natalia wears her heart on her sleeve and comes out with “famous.”
"Notorious" or "infamous" did not quite express her true emotion?

LABOUR MELTDOWN SPECIAL

OK - I am supposed to be taking a break but I could not stand by whilst Labour implodes without providing this forum for you to discuss BBC coverage of it. Gordon is in full bunker mentality, the Save Gordon project looks doomed even beyond BBC salvation - so where to now? I wonder will the looming reshuffle be timed to dampen down the results of the elections? Will the BBC linger on the outcome of the elections or the consequences of the reshuffle? Still, I hear tractor production is at an all-time high.....