All the Isreal news has been completely replaced with news of the thwarted airliner bombing plot in London. My main interest in this is that flights from Tel Aviv to Heathrow have been cancelled today and I don’t know if things will get back on track in time for me to go home. While it is worrying that people are trying to get bombs onto planes, I can’t help but have some sympathy with some of the points ina post titled ”liquid explosives are overreactive“, not least of which is that even if ten planes had been blown up today, another twenty thousand would have landed safely. There are also some comments on a Samizdata post about how difficult explosives are to handle and make properly. Nearby is a link to a video of a comedian pondering the fate of the 72 virgins — very funny.
So what’s in the Post today? The front page story is that the cabinet has approved the expanding the ground offensive, but has left it to the PM to decide exactly when. The US are opposing any escalation.
Fifteen IDF soldiers were killed yesterday. The story doesn’t say how, but rather goes on to talk about the proposed expanded ground offensive to the Litani River. Apparently it would take a week to prepare, and for now the operations will continue in their present form.
Also on the front page is a story about the BBC not reporting the war fairly. There are calls for Israeli officials to boycott the BBC by refusing to give interviews and excluding BBC reporters from briefings, which they apparently did before “during a wave of Palestinian violence in 2003″.
Senior diplomatic officials went as far as saying that “the reports we see give the impression that the BBC is working on behalf of Hizbullah instead of doing fair journalism.”
The Post article quotes Stephen Pollard article:
The BBC’s coverage has been overwhelmingly one-sided, with presenters and reporters editorialising against what they universally refer to as “Israeli attacks on Lebanonâ€.
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