“No love lost”

Astonishing opening to @WyreDavies's report on @BBCr4today one the Israeli strike on Qatar. Every single element is grotesquely wrong:

"There's no love lost in Israel for Hamas or its political leadership. Most people in Israel hold them directly responsible for what happened on…

— Stephen Pollard (@stephenpollard) September 10, 2025

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Full text:

"There's no love lost in Israel for Hamas or its political leadership. Most people in Israel hold them directly responsible for what happened on October 7."

"No love lost" – as if Israel has some sort of petty squabble with the organisation which committed the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.

"Hamas or its political leadership" – as if there are two wings to Hamas, the military and the political, rather than (as every nation which proscribes it recognises) it being one terror organisation. Not for Davis, it seems.

"Most people in Israel hold them directly responsible for what happened on October 7" – as if there is some sort of question mark over who was responsible, and only a majority in Israel think it was Hamas.

This is the level of the BBC's reporting. For which we are forced to pay under threat of imprisonment.