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Mrs A G
16 November 2009 - 11:45pm

My impression paradoxically after watching this tepid program that tried desperately but failed to prove conspiracies and illegalities, is that I understood why Israel needs lobbyists in Britain and I will become more vocal in my support. Peter Obourne looked positively miffed he wasn't able to dig up any dirt except that someone had shares in a shopping mall.  The film footage of suffering was only that of non-Israeli children. The children of Sderot also have shed blood and had been deliberately targeted by Hamas for years. Where was the BBC's concern for them in any purported attempt to be "balanced?" and unless I missed something has the Guardian ever written about their suffering? David Henshaw produced a documentary the aim of which seemed to be to perpetrate "comfortable" stereotypes about Jewish support for Israel. There are many left wing Jews who embrace Zionsim and Israel and many poor impoverished Jews living in and outside of Israel, both black and white who yearn for and love Eretz Israel. Supporters of Israel are a diverse group of Jews and non-Jews who in my experience desperately want peace and stability in the area. I never hear any Israel supporters call for the destruction of any other people, yet sadly this mantra is all too often voiced against Israel. Disappointingly this Dispatches program assumes dichotomies that serve only to perpetrate stereotypes and does not give a broad balanced overview of a complex subject.

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