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?

[hafren.livejournal.com]

I guess they think their job is only to report it, not to do any good about it.

It's a sickening decision.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Quite! I guess they'd better pray for a more acceptable kind of disaster, such as an earthquake. Crush injuries are so much more politically neutral than white phosphorus burns.

[karinmollberg.livejournal.com]

Indeed! Things come to mind that shouldn´t and I don´t intend to be cheap about it, but may I just say; writing from Berlin always gives these issues an "interesting" twist? There were similar discussions about the genocide going on at the Balkan at the time, for instance: "Not partaking, just observing".