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What did the BBC ever do to--indeed, what has it ever not done for--the Palestinians?(Brief article)

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What did the BBC ever do to--indeed, what has it ever not done for--the Palestinians? These must be the questions on the mind of many a BBC mandarin ever since Alan Johnston, the service's correspondent in Gaza City, was taken captive in March. Even after praise of Johnston as "a friend of the Palestinian people" from no less a man than Marwan Barghouti, a Fatah leader, who is presently incarcerated by Israel for his role in orchestrating a handful of suicide bombings, Johnston has remained in captivity. The incident lacks the usual grist of Gaza Strip kidnappings: Neither a monetary demand nor a lopsided exchange of the kidnapped for a hundred or so Israeli-held ...

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