The people of Ramallah didn’t seem to care much, but BBC correspondent Barbara Plett broke down in tears as the helicopter carrying Yasser Arafat lifted off from his compound.
Can I be excused, after reading this, for thinking that my impression of biased BBC coverage of Israel/Palestine isn’t the product of a fevered imagination? Can anyone picture a Beeb correspondent crying for Ariel Sharon?
(Via Imshin, who has some thoughts of her own.)