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Israele rompe con la Bbc dopo un documentario sulle sue armi di distruzione di massa

Tel Aviv, 29 giugno - Le autorità israeliane hanno rotto i rapporti con la Bbc, dopo che l'emittente britannica ha trasmesso questo weekend, nelle sue trasmissioni internazionali, un documentario sulle armi non convenzionali in possesso dello Stato ebraico. Il film si è chiesto "Quale Paese del Medio Oriente dispone di armi nucleari e biologiche non dichiarate ?", denunciando come Israele sia un Paese al di fuori delle leggi della comunità internazionale, nonostante si sappia che dispone di tutti gli armamenti più letali. Dopo aver cercato in ogni modo di impedire la trasmissione, le autorità israeliane si sono scagliate contro l'emittente, accusandola, secondo la loro buona abitudine, di antisemitismo. Oggi, è stato annunciato dall'Ufficio stampa del governo israeliano che esponenti di governo non concederanno più interviste alla tv britannica, che la autorità non forniranno più nessuna assistenza alle squadre della Bbc impegnate nello Stato ebraico e che i permessi di lavoro per i giornalisti britannici verranno rilasciati col contagocce.

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Israel cuts off ties with BBC
Israel declared over the weekend that it is cutting
off ties with the BBC to protest a repeat
broadcast on non-conventional weapons said to be
in Israel.


The program was broadcast for
the first time in March in
Britain, and was rerun Saturday
on a BBC channel that is aired
all over the world.

The boycott decision was made by
Israel's public relations
forum, made up of
representatives from the Prime
Minister's Office, the Foreign Ministry and the
Government Press Office.

It was decided that government offices won't
assist BBC producers and reporters, that
Israeli officials will not give interviews to
the British network, and that the Government
Press Office will make it difficult for BBC
employees to get press cards and work visas in
Israel.

Before the broadcast Saturday, Israeli officials
tried to pressure the BBC to cancel the
broadcast, saying that the program was biased
and presented Israel as an evil dictatorship,
ignoring the existential threat it was facing.


The forum members were furious at the trailers
to the program, which showed pictures of the
Dimona nuclear reactor and the biological
institute in Nes Tziona, with the narrator
saying, "Which country in the Middle East has
not declared the nuclear and biological weapons
in its possession?"

The trailer also says that there is no external
supervision over Israel, "which is holding in
custody for 17 years a man who has leaked its
secrets."

The broadcast deals with Israel's attempts to
maintain a policy of ambiguity on its nuclear
weapons, through the Va'anunu affair, the trial
of Brigadier General Yitzhak Ya'akov and the
incidents of cancer among the Dimona nuclear
reactor workers.

Danny Seaman, the head of the Government Press
Office, has been saying for some time that the
BBC has a clear anti-Israel policy, bordering
on anti-Semitism. Seaman told Army Radio on
Sunday that the BBC broadcast was an attempt to
tarnish Israel.
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