I have just watched the BBC World News reporting on the Israeli onslaught on Gaza demolishing the power station, bringing hospitals and hundreds of thousands of people into darkness and threats of devastation. The news reader, Katty Kay, proceded to interview Amnon Shahak, former Israeli chief of staff, and then Isaac Herzog, Israeli tourism minister. The interviewees spoke at length of Israeli views without a single question by Ms. Kay about the illegal occupation and the recent and continuing almost daily killing of Palestinian men, women and chilrdren in Gaza. There was not a a word about the thousands of Palestinians held in Israeli gaols for years, without charge or trial. There was not a word about the offer to release the Israeli soldier in return for Israel releasing the Palestinian women and children, held in Israeli prisons.