No appeal for Gaza

[steepholm]

WTF? Since when was it considered partisan to help the civilian victims of a conflict? Does this mean there will never be any appeals on the BBC (or others in the UK - but apparently the Beeb called the shots) for the victims of the Congo, Darfur, etc etc? Or is the idea that the Disasters Emergency Committee is some kind of cat's paw for Hamas? Or what?

Can anybody read this story in a way that makes any kind of non-sickening sense?

Comments

[sovay]

"However, the BBC will, of course, continue to report the humanitarian story in Gaza."

And if no one sends aid, what good does that do?

[lamentables.livejournal.com]

This has been bothering me since I read your post - nothing about it anywhere else that I've seen. But it was reported on R3 news this morning...

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

Given the way things have gone today (especially the repeated broadcasts of Tony Benn reading out the phone number in BBC news programmes), I'm beginning to wonder if it's an extremely devious but bizarrely masochistic method of giving the appeal even more publicity than it could possibly have got in a normal airing.