(Telegraph-UK)Tom Leonard - The BBC, which has long faced accusations of anti-Israeli bias, has received 500 complaints over the broadcast last Saturday by its Middle East correspondent, Barbara Plett, who reported, as Arafat left for Paris, "When the helicopter carrying the frail old man rose above his ruined compound, I started to cry...without warning." BBC senior editors remonstrated with Plett over her words, adding that she too accepted that they had been "misjudged." However, the fact that a Middle East correspondent has such sympathies will fuel claims of BBC bias towards the Arabs.
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