Post by Teddy Bear on Apr 13, 2011 17:43:20 GMT
This story highlights the lack of balance that is prevalent within the BBC mindset in regard to Israel.
Consider the events going on throughout the Arab world at the moment. protesters in Yemen, Syria, Bahrain, UAE, Libya, and Egypt have and are being killed and imprisoned in the ongoing power struggle there.
Within all this unrest that will undoubtedly have far reaching effects in this region, a BBC editor felt the following story worthy of inclusion into the main BBC Mid-East webpage.
Why any MP would speak out in favour of not cutting the finances given to the BBC World Service is beyond me. I can understand if it was a quiet news period in the region at this time that this toilet flushing story could be of some human interest or humorous, but with everything else going on there at this time, one has to wonder how this story can rate such attention.
Consider the events going on throughout the Arab world at the moment. protesters in Yemen, Syria, Bahrain, UAE, Libya, and Egypt have and are being killed and imprisoned in the ongoing power struggle there.
Within all this unrest that will undoubtedly have far reaching effects in this region, a BBC editor felt the following story worthy of inclusion into the main BBC Mid-East webpage.
Avigdor Lieberman pans Hamas in toilet interview
By Wyre Davies
BBC News, Jerusalem
Israel's outspoken foreign minister has chosen a novel way of making a point in a radio interview - apparently flushing the toilet live on the air.
Avigdor Lieberman was referring to the Palestinian Islamist group, Hamas, at the time.
Mr Lieberman, who leads the right-wing Israel Our Home Party, is no stranger to controversy.
He has often upset Israel's Arab minority and liberal groups with his forthright manner of speaking.
Now his critics say the former nightclub bouncer has sunk to new depths, by apparently flushing his toilet in a live radio interview.
Mr Lieberman's distinctly undiplomatic intervention came during a discussion about the Islamist group Hamas.
It may have been an odd way for the foreign minister to get his point across, but his methods aren't harming him in the opinion polls.
Although he is facing allegations of corruption, support for Mr Lieberman's ultra-nationalist party is growing and he is unlikely to care what his opponents think about his antics on the toilet.
By Wyre Davies
BBC News, Jerusalem
Israel's outspoken foreign minister has chosen a novel way of making a point in a radio interview - apparently flushing the toilet live on the air.
Avigdor Lieberman was referring to the Palestinian Islamist group, Hamas, at the time.
Mr Lieberman, who leads the right-wing Israel Our Home Party, is no stranger to controversy.
He has often upset Israel's Arab minority and liberal groups with his forthright manner of speaking.
Now his critics say the former nightclub bouncer has sunk to new depths, by apparently flushing his toilet in a live radio interview.
Mr Lieberman's distinctly undiplomatic intervention came during a discussion about the Islamist group Hamas.
It may have been an odd way for the foreign minister to get his point across, but his methods aren't harming him in the opinion polls.
Although he is facing allegations of corruption, support for Mr Lieberman's ultra-nationalist party is growing and he is unlikely to care what his opponents think about his antics on the toilet.
Why any MP would speak out in favour of not cutting the finances given to the BBC World Service is beyond me. I can understand if it was a quiet news period in the region at this time that this toilet flushing story could be of some human interest or humorous, but with everything else going on there at this time, one has to wonder how this story can rate such attention.