Tony Benn broadcasts Gaza Appeal
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"If you wont broadcast the Gaza appeal then I will"
"Are we such fools that we think that if we bomb other people they will crumble, whereas when they bomb us it will stiffen our resolve?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E21MdXe3BOQ
Tony Benn hijacks BBC's Today to make Gaza appeal
24 January 2009
By Dominic Ponsford, Paul McNally, PA Mediapoint
Former Labour MP Tony Benn defied the BBC's self-imposed ban on broadcasting an appeal for the people of Gaza - by hijacking an interview on the Today programme to make the appeal himself.
Benn was asked on the Today programme this morning to argue the case for the BBC broadcasting the Disasters Emergency Committee appeal.
The BBC has come under mounting pressure to screen the emergency appeal, after ITV, Channel 4 and Five all announced today that they would be showing it.
Thousands of protesters joined a demonstration in London, while a string of politicians, including senior Government ministers, urged the BBC to reconsider its decision.
BBC chief operating officer Caroline Thomson said the BBC refuses to broadcast the appeal because to do so could compromise its editorial impartiality and for fear money raised could be used for political purposes by Hamas.
When asked to comment on this by Ed Stourton on Today, Benn said: "£50 would provide a food parcel for a family for a month.
"There are a million and a half people in Gaza without water, sanitation, shelter or electricity; 1330 have been killed, there are 5,450 casualties; 460 children.
"What I'm going to do now is to do the appeal myself and say if you want to make a cheque payable to the Disasters Emergency Committee Gaza Crisis, post it to PO Box 999, London EC3A 3AA or go to any post office quoting pre-pay number 1210."
When Stourton tried to steer Benn back towards answering his original question, the 83-year-old campaigner replied: "I'm going to go on repeating it [the appeal] until you turn me out of the studio."
"Are we such fools that we think that if we bomb other people they will crumble, whereas when they bomb us it will stiffen our resolve?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E21MdXe3BOQ
Tony Benn hijacks BBC's Today to make Gaza appeal
24 January 2009
By Dominic Ponsford, Paul McNally, PA Mediapoint
Former Labour MP Tony Benn defied the BBC's self-imposed ban on broadcasting an appeal for the people of Gaza - by hijacking an interview on the Today programme to make the appeal himself.
Benn was asked on the Today programme this morning to argue the case for the BBC broadcasting the Disasters Emergency Committee appeal.
The BBC has come under mounting pressure to screen the emergency appeal, after ITV, Channel 4 and Five all announced today that they would be showing it.
Thousands of protesters joined a demonstration in London, while a string of politicians, including senior Government ministers, urged the BBC to reconsider its decision.
BBC chief operating officer Caroline Thomson said the BBC refuses to broadcast the appeal because to do so could compromise its editorial impartiality and for fear money raised could be used for political purposes by Hamas.
When asked to comment on this by Ed Stourton on Today, Benn said: "£50 would provide a food parcel for a family for a month.
"There are a million and a half people in Gaza without water, sanitation, shelter or electricity; 1330 have been killed, there are 5,450 casualties; 460 children.
"What I'm going to do now is to do the appeal myself and say if you want to make a cheque payable to the Disasters Emergency Committee Gaza Crisis, post it to PO Box 999, London EC3A 3AA or go to any post office quoting pre-pay number 1210."
When Stourton tried to steer Benn back towards answering his original question, the 83-year-old campaigner replied: "I'm going to go on repeating it [the appeal] until you turn me out of the studio."
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fuck you, zionist controlled media. you can try, but thanks to people like Tony Benn, you won't fool everyone.
many jews, including David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first PM, thought this same way. when the British imposed martial law after all the terrorist attacks by jews like the King David Hotel bombing Ben-Gurion said:
"250,00 Jews of Tel Aviv and suburbs, core of country's social and industrial life, and 30,000 Jews in Jerusalem, mostly working-class quarters, isolated from all normal contact with outside world, facing complete breakdown of mechanism civilized life apart from food supplies and skeleton medical service. Industry crippled, trade paralyzed, unemployment threatening to become catastrophic. Industrial raw materials cannot enter, goods manufactured with available stock cannot be marketed outside. Workers cut off from places of work, children from schools. These restrictions have not affected terrorists nor stopped their outrages but instead have increased resentment of hard-hit population, created fertile soil for terrorist propaganda, frustrating community's attempt to combat terrorism by itself. Martial Law absolutely futile and senseless unless really meant to punish whole community, ruin its economy and destroy the foundation of the Jewish National Home."
it's a shame Israel has seemed to have forgotten that idea
what are you but my reflection? who am i to judge or strike you down?
"I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank." - Barack Obama
when you told me 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em'
i was thinkin 'death before dishonor'
people will see it happening on tv and send money anyway
but they don't know the address and that's it, po box 999, london england.....
what are you but my reflection? who am i to judge or strike you down?
"I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank." - Barack Obama
when you told me 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em'
i was thinkin 'death before dishonor'
tony benn, hell yeah.
He's one of few politicians with integrity.