Please help me with this

The BBC won't carry a DEC appeal for Gaza, yet they have done so for Vietnam and others. OK, granted, they did not run one for Lebanon or for Afghanistan. Hmmmm, anybody would think they are too shy to run any appeal related to the 'greater Middle East' region.

Worried about our international broadcast revenues? Concerned with certain constituents? Or is there something else?

It shouldn't matter what your view of the Palestine/Israel conflict is - civilians need help with food, water and shelter (it's cold out there, and all the buildings have been flattened).

If the BBC is that concerned about being an international broadcaster and being seen as impartial (though I think that assertion lacks credibility), then they should just run the campaign on terrestrial TV and not international services like BBC World.

Also, why is it, that over the last few days, rather than fielding the editors who apparently were so concerned with being impartial, the BBC fielded its Chief Operating Officer (COO)? I don't know about you, but in most companies, the COO is an internal-facing role, and in a media company, would have bugger all squared to do with editorial matters (coz that's what editors are for).