...the fact that his claim is debatable if only for the simple reason that Israel is not the only party upon which negotiations depend and the PA has shown in the past year that its strategy has shifted to the international arena, it is revealing to see yet another example of the BBC’s obsessive-compulsive focus on a topic which Connolly himself admits – in an article ostensibly about the Israeli elections – is not on the electorate’s agenda.
Hadar Sela..
BBC Watch..
15 March '15..
BBC News website coverage of the upcoming
election in Israel continued on March 13th with an article by Kevin Connolly which appeared in the Middle East page’s ‘Features & Analysis’ section under the title “
Israel election: Will outcome revive peace process?“.
Oddly, the main photograph chosen to illustrate that article has nothing to do with the Israeli election, as can be seen in its
original description.
The BBC however replaced the original caption with one of its own:
“Peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians have been shelved for nearly a year”
No attempt was made to remind readers that the
previous round of talks came to an end because the Palestinian Authority chose to form a ‘unity government’ with Hamas.
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