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Tony Benn slams BBC on air for "capitulating to Israeli pressure"

ruggedtoast
ruggedtoast Posts: 9,819 Forumite
in Debate House Prices & the Economy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=E21MdXe3BOQ

He's always said it like it was. One of the few politicians who actually should have been in politics.
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  • CLAPTON
    CLAPTON Posts: 41,865 Forumite
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    one of the great politicians
    renounced his peerage but not his inheritance that went with it.
  • vivatifosi
    vivatifosi Posts: 18,746 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Mortgage-free Glee! PPI Party Pooper
    But that was in 2009... Does the DEC even have an appeal now?
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  • Sapphire
    Sapphire Posts: 4,269 Forumite
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    I thought he was dead.
  • zagubov
    zagubov Posts: 17,939 Forumite
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    CLAPTON wrote: »
    one of the great politicians
    renounced his peerage but not his inheritance that went with it.
    You mean he should have modelled himslef on Jimmy Saville and given it away to charity?
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  • The_White_Horse
    The_White_Horse Posts: 3,315 Forumite
    the BBC could barely me more pro-Palestinian if it tried. This morning their Gaza correspondent must have said "dead babies" at least 15 times in 40 seconds.
  • ILW
    ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite
    The_White_Horse wrote: »
    the BBC could barely me more pro-Palestinian if it tried. This morning their Gaza correspondent must have said "dead babies" at least 15 times in 40 seconds.

    Are dead babies not worth mentioning?
  • The_White_Horse
    The_White_Horse Posts: 3,315 Forumite
    not that many times. at the end of the day, these people voted terrorists to be their government. if you vote in terrorists, you have to pay the price. hamas don't look after their people. they sacrifice them. they spend money on rockets, not on food or infrastructure. you can guarantee this: if no rockets came out of Gaza, Israel would never fire on them.

    One of the main reasons there are so many more palestinian deaths than Israeli, is because the Israeli Govt protects their citizens, it doesn't use them as human shields. The Iron Dome is proof of this.
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    vivatifosi wrote: »
    But that was in 2009... Does the DEC even have an appeal now?

    Not sure about the DEC but I think the ANT does.

    ant-and-dec.jpg

    Can we get the Israeli Defense Force to sort these 2 out next?
  • ILW
    ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite
    The_White_Horse wrote: »
    not that many times. at the end of the day, these people voted terrorists to be their government. if you vote in terrorists, you have to pay the price. hamas don't look after their people. they sacrifice them. they spend money on rockets, not on food or infrastructure. you can guarantee this: if no rockets came out of Gaza, Israel would never fire on them.

    One of the main reasons there are so many more palestinian deaths than Israeli, is because the Israeli Govt protects their citizens, it doesn't use them as human shields. The Iron Dome is proof of this.

    Suppose it depends on your definition of "terrorist". If the Palestinians had a full airforce to to drop bombs on Israel with, then i guess they would be legitimate. Strange world we live in.
  • The_White_Horse
    The_White_Horse Posts: 3,315 Forumite
    If you can't see that Hamas is a terrorist organisation, then there is clearly no hope for peace in the middle east. If Hamas had an airforce, then they would just commit even more acts of terrorism. There stated aim is the total destruction of Israel. Very hard to negotiate peace with that.
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