Today: Annexation today?

BBC bias: BBC presenter Nick Robinson lies that the occupation of the West Bank is illegal, and lies that most of the world regards it as illegal.

this morning (wednesday 1st), 7.21-7.26am, 8.37-8.42am, and 8.46-8.49am, on bbc radio 4 

today (presented by nick robinson) includes …

“Today is the day when Israel could begin to annex large parts of what most of the world regards as the illegally occupied West Bank, dashing hopes of a so-called two-state solution in which an independent Palestine lives alongside Israel in peace.“

including contributions from …

• ambassador hussam zomlot

• bbc reporter jeremy bowen 

• sharren haskel mk 

Today: Today’s election

this morning (monday 2nd), 6.05-6.06am and 6.47-6.52am, on bbc radio 4

today (presented by mishal husain) includes …

“Polls in Israel have opened in the country’s third election in a year.”

including contributions from …

• bbc reporter tom bateman

• christian evangelist ray armstrong

• bbc reporter jeremy bowen 

• israel medad of shiloh

• ofer alter, general manager of lipski plastics 

WTW: Trump plan reaction

this morning (saturday 1st), 9.06–9.12am (repeated 1.06am), on bbc world service radio 

the world this week (presented by caroline wyatt) leads with …

“Arab leaders have always been a bit ambivalent about the Palestinians. They’ve been a nuisance because it’s a long-running problem … with the exception of the Jordanians, Arab countries, while talking a very strong game, have not actually done a great deal for the Palestinians over many many years.”

including report from  …

• bbc reporter jeremy bowen 

MN/Today: Trump plan

this morning (wednesday 29th), 12.01-12.08am and 8.49-8.55am, on bbc radio 4

midnight news and today (presented by mishal husain) include …

“President Trump has set out what he has called ‘the most detailed peace plan ever’ for the Middle East, saying it’s a ‘win-win for both Israelis and Palestinians’.“

including contributions from …

• bbc reporter aleem maqbool

• bbc reporter jeremy bowen

• bbc reporter jon sopel 

B100d/Nn: Trump plan

yesterday evening (tuesday 28th), 7.01-7.15pm on bbc news tv, and 10.31-10.51pm on bbc 2 tv 

beyond 100 days (presented by michelle fleury and christian fraser) and newsnight (presented by emily maitlis) lead with …

“President Trump’s Middle East plan. Is it a plan for peace or for political survival?”

including contributions from …

• bbc reporter jeremy bowen 

• bbc reporter barbara plett-usher 

• tony blair 

• bbc reporter mark urban 

• james sorene, bicom

• diana buttu, former spokesperson for the plo

• ambassador husam zomlot 

• kirsten fontenrose

• philip gordon, former middle east adviser to president obama

6ocn/Nh/Twt: Trump plan

yesterday evening (tuesday 28th), 6.08-6.13pm, 10.01-10.02pm, and 10.07-10.24pm, on bbc radio 4, and 9.06-9.25pm and 9.51-9.59pm on bbc world service radio

six o’clock news, newshour (presented by tim franks), and the world tonight (presented by sean ley) lead with …

“President Trump releases his long delayed Israeli-Palestinian peace plan and promises ‘a new dawn’ for the region. Palestinians reject the proposal as hopelessly biased.”

including contributions from …

• bbc reporter aleem maqbool 

• benjamin netanyahu 

• bbc reporter tom bateman 

• mustafa barghouti 

• bbc reporter gary odonoghue 

• jason greenblatt 

• ambassador husam zomlot 

• logan bayroff of j-street

• bbc reporter barbara plett-usher

• bbc reporter anna foster 

• bbc reporter sebastian usher 

• diana buttu, former spokesperson for the plo

• bbc reporter jeremy bowen 

Today: Trump plan today

this morning (tuesday 28th), 6.10-6.13am, 8.02-8.04am, 8.10-8.23am, and 8.49-8.53am, on bbc radio 4

today (presented by nick robinson) includes…

“President Trump is due to unveil his long-awaited plan to end the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians later today. He’s called it the deal of the century. Israel’s prime minister will be at his side in the White House, while the Palestinians have already said they’ll reject the proposals.”

including contributions from …

• bbc reporter tom bateman 

• bbc reporter jeremy bowen 

• former israeli security advisor yaakov amidror 

• ambassador husam zomlot 

Today: Reporters’ PTSD

this morning (saturday 25th), 8.50-8.54am, on bbc radio 4 

today (presented by sarah smith) includes…

“I had my own brush with PTSD, I didn’t develop the full condition, but I suffered from the symptoms … after a Lebanese colleague of mine was killed by the Israelis, they fired a tank shell into the back of his car, I had just got out, I was only 100 yards away, he managed to force his way out through the window before he died. He was on fire, I couldn’t get up there, when I tried to get up there the Israelis tried to  kill me, they opened fire on me with a heavy machine-gun. These things leave their mark.”

including interview with …

• bbc reporter jeremy bowen

(see also https://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/22/world/bbc-says-unprovoked-israeli-fire-killed-an-employee-in-lebanon.html)

Today: Trump Plan ready

this morning (saturday 25th), 8.47-8.50am, on bbc radio 4 

today (presented by sarah smith) includes…

“Donald Trump, using his usual humility, calls it the deal of the century, a proposed Middle East peace deal that he might be ready to unveil next week.”

including report from …

• bbc reporter jeremy bowen

Today: Hezbollah missiles

this morning (friday 6th), 8.37-8.42am, on bbc radio 4 

today (presented by martha kearney and mishal husain) includes …

“With your allies in Iran, you have amassed an enormous arsenal of rockets and missiles, including guided missiles, that presumably you’d use in a war with Israel.  Under what circumstances would you use that arsenal of weapons?”

including contributions from …

• bbc reporter jeremy bowen

• naim qassem, deputy leader, hezbollah