Donnison is still desperately trying to back up his claim that Hamas had no part in the kidnapping of Israeli teens despite a Hamas spokesman saying they did:
Our goal was to ignite an intifada in the West Bank and Jerusalem as well as within the 1948 borders [Israel]. The activity of the people has broadened to include all the occupied land, reaching its peak in the heroic operation, carried out by the Al-Qassam Brigades, in which three settlers were captured in Hebron. There has been a lot of confusion regarding this operation. Some said that this was a conspiracy of the occupation [Israel]. That’s not true. Your brothers in the Al-Qassam Brigades carried out this operation to support their imprisoned brothers who were on hunger strike.”
Donnison tweets this:
Unfortunately the impression he tries to impart, that this ‘family affair’ had nothing to do with Hamas, is somewhat undermined by reading the article………
On June 12, Hamas terrorists from Hebron kidnapped Gil-Ad Sha’er, 16, Naftali Frenkel 16, and Eyal Yifrah, 19, while the three were hitchhiking at Gush Etzion Junction, and shot them dead shortly thereafter when they realized that one of the teens had called the police.
Donnison thought he had a massive scoop undermining what he claimed was the Israeli justification for the launch of an assault on Hamas , but notably no other BBC journo has picked up on this and run with it….Donnison heard what he wanted to hear and interpreted it in a way that aligned with his own anti-Israel agenda.
Rather than admitting he was wrong he is still insists he was correct despite everything pointing the finger of blame at Hamas…including Hamas itself.
This is all about Donnison’s ego, nothing to do with journalism.
Someone responsible at the BBC should have a little word in Donnison’s ear perhaps.
at the end of the day,donnisons boys hamas got a good ass whipping by the idf.further than than.israel proved beyond doubt that taking on the terrorists head on with the iron fist approach worked because terrorists will only back down when faced with a real army who will flatten there terrorist enclaves into the stone age where they belong.note that donnson.
Donnison’s only qualification for reporting for al-beeb on the Middle East seems to be a degree in rabid anti-Semitism! That’s good enough, and why he’s not been fired.
Donnison is a creep, end of.