Israel must pledge 'never misuse British passports'
Israel will be able to replace the diplomat removed from London,
but only if they accept responsibility for the forgery of UK passports.
Jeremy Bowen's views on the expulsion
By Blacklisted Dictator
March 24, 2010The attached, from The BBC website's report on the expulsion of the Israeli diplomat, is quite classick. What does he mean by "a government like the British"? Is the implication that it is particularly cautious? Or that it has an innate sense of fair play?....
The BBC's Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen said the expulsion sent a "very clear message" of British disapproval.
"It is a very big step for a government like the British to expel one of the diplomats belonging to one of its important allies," he said.
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Yes, and Bowen wrote an emotional feature article about that in the "Daily Telegraph" a few years ago. It spoke of "trigger-happy Israeli soldiers" and was clearly in breach of Al Beeb's Charter and Al Beeb's Producers' guidelines.
I got the impression that Bowen was never particularly enamoured of Israel anyway, and the (accidental) killing of the driver reinforced his bias.
That online Diary of his during Cast Lead was not exactly a model of objectivity. Bowen intrudes his personal opinions into his reports all too often.
But Al Beeb can behave with impunity. It is answerable to nobody but itself.
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The egregiously biased Mr Bowen should be grateful that Israel has not expelled him!