Broadcasting at the public

What is about those who feel the need to broadcast but can't quite do it without asking for a bit of public dosh to support them?

An email from Ch4 just now, to which I was moved to reply.

'I've just been speaking to Mark Regev, spokesman for the Israeli prime minister. No sign of compromise in the air from Mr Regev. Nothing less than ending Hamas rocket fire and all use of tunnels to smuggle in weapons to Hamas will do for him.'

As a matter of interest, what 'less' than more rocket fire and the importing of more things that go bang might be in mind behind this sentence, and deemed a reasonable compromise in the context of this situation?

Or are we back to a more pleasing sense of 'proportionality' again? Back to the good old days of just the odd launch, not too many hurt.

Maybe just one tunnel, say a few score rockets. And if they stay in the bunkers maybe only a few dead Israelis?

'As the number of civilians killed in Gaza continues to rise, we'll have a report on what impact those images of the dead and wounded are having on young Muslims here. Community groups working with young British Muslims say they are worried about the growing threat of radicalisation, and some say these two bitter weeks of fighting have put their work back years.'

Anything so long as it doesn't motivate certain disaffected British youth to go on the rampage, eh? I wonder if there is a modern, new media equivalent to Danegeld?

'Asked just now about world opinion being appalled at what Israel is doing, Israeli President Shimon Perez flatly denied world opinion was at odds with Israel at all. China, the United States, and others, he said, agreed Israel had to do what it was doing. He seems to think squeamishness over dead Palestinian women and children is little more than an eccentric British problem'.

I may not agree with a lot that goes on, but you don't have a clue what without asking, so do bear in mind that you do not speak for the world, or at least the bit I'm in, so careful with the all-inclusive claims. And the trite rhetoric.