tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844367946876032905.post7542309116493706415..comments2023-10-03T23:58:17.279+11:00Comments on Middle East Reality Check: LobbyotomisedMERChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14500573372528287733noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844367946876032905.post-17820357474053356832016-02-25T08:10:53.199+11:002016-02-25T08:10:53.199+11:00Whatever became of the proposal to ensure Q&A ...Whatever became of the proposal to ensure Q&A achieved more 'balance' ?<br /><br />Since then we have the sad spectacle of wall to wall Zionists and Zionist apologists appearing on the program. No dissenters to [Zionist] orthodoxy are invited to provide real balance, despite public opinion. The producers have decided to play it safe.<br /><br />Pre-approved 'questions' from the closely vetted audience ensure a seamless predictability. <br /><br />That makes for very dull and boring television.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844367946876032905.post-14874929718857471482016-02-24T13:30:55.945+11:002016-02-24T13:30:55.945+11:00I would have thought that the lesson from the Isra...I would have thought that the lesson from the Israeli experience is that Australia should never again steal other people's land, using it colonists and soldiers to kill them if they object, and imprisoning them and abusing them at will. <br /><br />We did it once, very successfully, on the basis of a legal fiction, and got away with it, albeit with ongoing repercussions for the colonised. Never again.<br /><br />The correct response to the questioner was that the question itself is a disgraceful misrepresentation of what is happening in Israel/Palestine.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com