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Jan 27 2009 8:54am EDT

BBC Wrong to Refuse Gaza Aid Appeal?

The management of the BBC is under heavy criticism -- both from within and from outside the network -- for refusing to air a short video created to raise money for humanitarian relief in Gaza. The video is the work of the Disasters Emergency Committee, which represents aid groups including Oxfam, the British Red Cross and Save the Children.

Although it has aired other DEC appeals in the past, the BBC says broadcasting this one would give it the appearance of taking sides in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But several other British networks disagree and have already aired it.

This is the video. What do you think? Are the images of wounded children and weeping mothers intended to inflame hatred of Israel, or just to raise much-needed money?

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