Even By Sackur's Standards....

[vetuste_ennemi]

...tonight's "Hard Talk"... the discussion about Israeli security/internal politics/proportional response is poor, isn't it?

What prevents an intelligent man like Sackur seeing both sides of an argument?

[bednobs]

Is that a TV program?

[vetuste_ennemi]

Should have posted the question under "Media".

[ichkeria]

I didn’t see it, but Hard Talk is usually an interview - with Sackur playing devil’s advocate. as a good interviewer often should.
Other than that : impossible to comment.

[bednobs]

Please don't be rude. I didn't mean u had posted in the wrong section just that I didn't understand the question (probably because I didn't know what hard talk is) and was just asking if it was a TV prog

[dannyk13]

VE post at 02.06 was totally uncalled for.

[Gromit]

Isn’t ‘Hard Talk’ an obscure interview show on the BBCs World digital TV service. I have seen it, but I am not a regular viewer.
Without watching it, hearing the questions (and the answers) and without knowing who the interviewee was, it is impossible to say if the programme was biased.
Whatever, the Israeli Government commit terrible crimes regularly, which any good interviewer should grill them about.

[ToraToraTora]

can you expand on the points you want to discuss.

[ToraToraTora]

Isreal tend to upset people like gromit because they have the temerity to defend themselves against islamic terror groups.

[Gromit]

TTT,
Often, The Israeli Government are no better than the Islamic terrorists, and attack and kill civilians (not terrorists) with the same disregard to international law.

[ichkeria]

Gromit: Hard Talk is shown on BBC News 24 also. I’ve watched it a few times.
It’s a real shame tho that BBC World can’t be shown in this country although for a good world news station France 24 is hard to beat.

[ToraToraTora]

gromit: "Often, The Israeli Government are no better than the Islamic terrorists, and attack and kill civilians (not terrorists) with the same disregard to international law. " - always in response to the neighbours lobbing their penny bangers over the fence. Its' easy to avoid if only they thought about it.

[Khandro]

//What prevents an intelligent man like Sackur seeing both sides of an argument?//
His wife's name is Zina Sabbagh, does that give a clue?

[sandyRoe]

Not really.
Is that an Arab or a Jewish name?

[ichkeria]

I guess it’s the interview with Israel’s education minister Naftali Bennett of the Jewish Home movement and he comes in for some hard questioning about why he stays in Netanyahu’s govt despite his threat to quit if not made defence minister. It’s a typical political interview. I don’t imagine it’s called “Hard Talk” for nothing. Sackur goes in hard and Bennett gives a good account of himself.
In summary as I suspect happens every edition, the interviewee gives one side of an argument, and the interviewer presents another. Far preferable than say Julian Assange’s love-in with the leader of Hezbollah a few years back.

[Khandro]

sandy // Is that an Arab or a Jewish name?//

Arab, she is an Iraqi, born in Mansour