Yawn indeed...I don't have the time to check each of these instances that you refer to, so I will have to take your word for it.
Maybe you are right. All I know is I have never ever come across anything approaching anti-Israel bias in my (admittedly limited to some degree) experience of working with BBC news.
It just seems to me that if you sat down and analysed the BBC to that extent, or any other news media for that matter, you could find thousands of examples of 'well if they reported that, why didnt they report that?'. You are never going to satisfy every criteria, its just physically impossible.
I still firmly believe OVERALL you would be hard pushed to find a news provider that is as balanced, or covers international news that is not specifically relavant to the UK as deeply as the BBC. And I still say to suggest that there is some concious, deliberate, organised attempt at a senior level in the BBC to have an ongoing bias against Israel in their news reporting is just wrong.
You might be interested in this news story:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Sto...183312,00.html
"....several foreign news organisations complain of increasing government pressure to curtail critical coverage or to report stories Israel believes help identify the Palestinian conflict with global Islamist terrorism.
Officials have presented editors with dossiers on individual reporters and singled out organisations such as
Sky News for allegedly having an anti-Israel agenda.
The Tel Aviv press has called for the expulsion of correspondents from Sky, the Times and several French papers for failing to cover a story the government mobilised embassies worldwide to get into the media last month.
In her report on Hussam Abdu last week, Guerin noted Israel's desire to gain a public relations advantage from the arrest. She described how the army "paraded the child in front of the international media", and observed that journalists had been prevented from asking him questions and therefore were left only with the army's account of the arrest.
Mr Sharansky alleged that the BBC reporter "cast aspersions on the meaning of what transpired" that amounted to "such a gross double standard to the Jewish state, it is difficult to see Ms Guerin's report as anything but anti-semitic".
The Israeli minister also protested at Guerin's conclusion, as the youth was forced to stand forlornly alone at the checkpoint solely for the photographers, that "this is a picture that Israel wants the world to see".
Yet there is little doubt that the Israeli government viewed the boy's arrest as of considerable propaganda value.
Israeli embassies urged newspapers across the globe to run the story as part of a campaign by the government to highlight the use of children as potential suicide bombers.
A week earlier, when a 12-year-old boy, Abdullah Quran, was stopped while unwittingly carrying explosives at an army checkpoint, Israeli embassies called news editors to insist they cover the story and warn that failure to do so would be viewed as bias against Israel.
When several news organisations failed to report it, an Israeli newspaper called for their correspondents to be expelled, including Sky's Emma Hurd and Stephen Farrell of the Times.
The government emailed the article around the world and reproduced it on official websites.
Gideon Meir, the foreign ministry's chief spokesman, said the criticism was legitimate. "Sky News did not cover the Abdullah Quran story but the next day, when the Israeli army targeted an Islamic Jihad terrorist with a missile, immediately Sky was on the air with seven or eight minutes of coverage," he said. "They did not cover the first story because it does not fit into the agenda the editors have."
Last month the Israeli foreign minister, Silvan Shalom, pulled out of an interview on Sky's Sunday with Adam Boulton after the show refused to cancel an appearance by the Palestinian representative in London.
CNN sources say the network has bowed to considerable pressure on its editors. Israeli officials boast that they now have only to call a number at the network's headquarters in Atlanta to pull any story they do not like.
The network's former Middle East correspondent, Jerrold Kessel, who was widely respected for his informed and nuanced reporting, said that while doubtlessly there was pressure on his editors to get him to modify his coverage, he regarded it as irrelevant.
"The less notice one takes of pressure, the less pressure one invites on oneself," he said. "If you get into a mind where the pressure is a factor, you get into the mind of worrying about what the effect of the pressure is going to be."
-so as you can see, its not just the BBC taking part in this 'conspiracy'. Its also Sky News, The Times, CNN, the french media....the list goes on.I never realised this conspiracy was so far reaching![/b]