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The indefatigable Robin Shepherd highlights a jaw dropping comment by Michael White, Assistant Editor of the Guardian:
In a discussion on security for political leaders pegging off the assault on
Silvio Berlusconi the other day, White talked meanderingly about previous
attacks on political leaders and, understandably for a British discussion show,
brought in the case of Northern Ireland where Unionists and Nationalists in the
main desisted from assassinating each others leaders. And then, like a flash of
lightening out of a clear blue sky, this:“In Israel they murder each other a great deal. The Israeli Defense Forces
murder people because they don’t like their political style and what they’ve got
to say and it only means that people more extreme come in and take their
place.”
No interruption from the BBC moderator of course — apart from an approving
“hmm”. No one to stop such appalling, defamatory lies in their tracks. There it
is. On the record. A vicious calumny about Israel, pumping yet more sewage into
the public mind as the Jewish state is portrayed as nothing better than a
violent, totalitarian dictatorship which silences political dissent through the
barrel of a gun.
Mr White has a habit of making throwaway remarks which seem almost calculated to offend. But even from him, this is especially outrageous.
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