Stupid Things I Have Seen (pt 100)

….this morning on BBC News24, an Israeli settler woman who had just been removed from the Gaza. She was interviewed standing outside a bungalow, with all her furniture and possessions pile up both inside and outside. She was telling the interviewer how disgraceful it was that she had been given a house that was far too small for herself, her two children and all their furniture. “Where shall we put our living-room furniture, our dining-room furniture? Look, there is no room inside? Come in and look at how small this house is!” And she banged on and on and on about how disgusting it was that she and her family had been forced to move to this tiny house, all the while waving her hands at this terrible hovel she had been forced into – a newly-built bungalow, everything freshly-painted, with fitted kitchen and bathroom units, a newly-turfed garden area outside. “We are going to get mental-health problems living here!”
She whinged on and on and on, leaving little room for the interviewer to get a word in. If he had, maybe he could have asked her about the generous compensation payment she was getting, about how she was getting this house rent-free, about how all of her removals had been done for her free of charge, about how she had been given months in which make her resettlement plans. But he didn’t, or couldn’t.

After that, the next item was about the displaced refugees in Zimbabwe, the ones who had been given just minutes’ notice before their homes were bulldozed, with no compensation or resettlement aid, and about how they were now living in concentration-camp conditions with no houses, no utilities, no jobs. Whoever arranged the order of news items this morning evidently has a sense of irony.