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As the BBC won't broadcast the appeal, I'm going to do it myself
Anyone who wants to contribute
I'm going to do that and I'm sorry, you're not going to stop me!
You're not going to stop me...
I'm sorry
No!
I'm sorry.
The Disaster Emergency Committee Gaza Crisis (DEC)
Is available at:
PO Box 999, London, EC3A 3AA
And I know from the BBC because I've been here most of the morning...
Nobody here agrees with what the BBC has done...
1,330 people have been killed
460 Children 5,480 casualties
and the reason the BBC have done it is very simple...
The Israeli government objected!
Well the BBC would disagree with you and you did hear the line from management there...
that it's a question of raising impartiality - the public will be concerned and...
the other issue of course, will the aid actually get to the people who need it?
Well if you're telling me
that if I send money to Gaza
the BBC's impartiality with it
I'm sorry, I'm a human being.
If you sent money to Gaza though, through an appeal...
could you be sure that it will get to the people who need it
Well - In a war situation... The Israelis have killed 1,330 people, now...
Livni, the Israeli Foreign Minister...
said, "There is no humanitarian crisis". Now...
be clear, the Israelis have objected to the BBC - that's the reason...
I've never met anyone, and I've done masses of meetings, I've never met anyone...
who doesn't think we should give aid to Gaza.
What about the other broadcasters who are also not showing it though?
Well, they're wrong as well!
But you see we are human beings and I know you work for the BBC and I'm a pensioner...
We're people! If you saw children dying as they are today in Gaza
because there is no food, medical; wouldn't you want to send it?
We have shown what's been happening in Gaza
I know you've shown it but I'm talking about trying to help people
Yes but, surely people will see it and send the money anyway. What d...
They don't know the address! And that's it, Po Box 999, London EC3A 3AA
I'm doing what the BBC won't do!
And you did it earlier as well and I think people now know what the address is.
Can we look at the bigger picture though?
Yes of course
What about targeting the aid going to the people who need it?
What about the problem... possibility that it might go to Hamas
that it might actually go to rearm...
Hamas is the elected government
In 2006, Hamas won the general election in Palestine
Jimmy Carter, the former American President said that.
And if you're telling me that no aid can go to people dying there
in case it goes to a school run by Hamas
I mean, it just doesn't make sense!
How much money do you think the appeal will lose by not having the BBC
and the other broadcasters broadcasting this?
Well The Congo they got £10 million and I think in Burma, £18 million
People will die because of the BBC decision. Let me be clear about that.
And I started my life, 60 years ago, as a BBC producer.
I loved the BBC. Supported it.
But it has capitulated to Israeli pressure. That the truth, I have to tell you.