It’s a day ending in a ‘y’ which can only mean one thing – noted geopolitics expert Gary Lineker inflicting his opinions on the Middle East on the rest of us.
Gary’s latest dip into the Arab-Israeli conflict comes after the BBC was forced to pull its documentary, Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone, from iPlayer while it performs a ‘due diligence’ check on the programme. This was prompted by the allegation that one of the programme’s child narrators was the son of a Hamas government minister. Since then, it has also been alleged that the programme mistranslated certain words used by its interviewees – changing the Arabic words for ‘Jew’ and ‘Jews’ to ‘Israel’ or ‘Israeli forces’.
All quite embarrassing for the Beeb, you might think, especially given the tremendously high horse it mounted at the beginning of the war when it refused to call Hamas a terrorist group, saying, ‘our business is to present our audiences with the facts.
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