I genuinely don't know how Bastard Bowen lives with himself. (Maybe that salary bordering on a quarter of a million quid helps?)

The programme was full of attempts, by him, to paint what is the simplest moral issue of his lifetime as a case of 'they're both as bad as each other' (with a self-pitying side-order of 'what's an impartial journalist to do?') Thus we heard about what 'the Palestinians say' (about their right to resist) and what 'the Israelis say' (about their supposed 'right to defend themselves') -- in a situation where what 'the Palestinians say' is actually what international law says. But that's how Bastard Bowen rolls: make it seem just a case of 'he said ... she said' -- 'impartiality' by erasure -- and leave the listener to give up in boredom at the 'intractability' of it all...

M.