https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cwyl...e9908c4b8#post
I posted this link to the BBC’s ‘live’ page last week and suggested Frank Gardiner was smoking copium over the story of the exploding pagers. He seemed way too keen to paint the timing of the detonations as some sort of schoolboy error, suggesting there was no evidence of a build-up towards broader Israeli action that would be the only logical reason for this sort of attack on Hezbollah’s logistics.
“It’s possible that, when it comes to sabotaging its enemy’s communications, Israel has shot its bolt too early” he intoned solemnly.
Yet what happened next … 24 hours later, the walkie talkies exploded. Then Hezbollah’s leadership convened a crisis meeting at a location Israel clearly knew about and was ready to destroy - and did so, on Friday, decapitating the organisation’s leadership in Lebanon. Now, today, they’re doing the very thing Gardiner somehow decided couldn’t be about to happen, i.e. pounding Hamas positions.
Now, tonight, Bothsides Bowen is on the news at 10 opining that Israel is probably wasting its time trying to take down Hezbollah having had a year to do similar to Hamas in Gaza, and not yet having completed the task.
I’m left with the distinct impression that the BBC’s correspondents are all toeing an agreed editorial line which is that Israel doesn’t know what it’s doing, is reckless, and won’t get what it wants. That’s not inherently antisemitic but it is definitely aligned with the line-to-take coming from Hamas and Hezbollah’s useful idiots in the West. I’m sure that’s just a massive coincidence though.