I've been sent the transcript of remarks made on BBC Radio Four's Today programme last Thursday, when Barbara Plett -- who famously burst into tears of sympathy when Arafat left the Muquata to go and die in Paris -- took part in a two-way on Jack Straw's visit to the Middle East. Here's how this objective dialogue on the airwaves of Britain's objective public service broadcaster went:

'CAROLYN QUINN

... But let's just cross to Jerusalem now and our Correspondent there, Barbara Plett:

Barbara, Jack Straw we know is going to hold talks with senior Palestinian leaders today – the next leg of his Middle East visit. Do you know who he'll be talking to and what about?

BARBARA PLETT

He'll be speaking with the main Palestinian leadership – the Palestinian Prime Minister, Ahmed Qurei, the new chief of the PLO Mahmoud Abbas and the Foreign Minister Nabil Sha'ath and the interim president Rauhi Fattouh - and he's going to be telling them that they'll get as much support as possible from the British for holding presidential elections. He's also going to be telling them they have to do as much as possible to stop violence against Israel and then the peace process can go forward.

CAROLYN QUINN

The fact that he is touring the region, does that provide any hope that there can be new life breathed into the process?

BARBARA PLETT

Well I think people here are taking this with a grain of salt – all of the visits from the international community. I think the Palestinians, if we're speaking to the Palestinians today, their view would be that they would like a greater role for Britain and for Europe but they don't just want talk - they want action – and from a Palestinian point of view, if you speak to officials, the demand from lowest level to the highest level is always the same in terms of what they want from international mediators; in order to strengthen the leadership / the new leadership after Yasser Arafat they want Israel to end its policy of assassinating Palestinian militants, they want Israel to stop the raids into Palestinian areas and they want Israel to release prisoners and they say if they can get movement on these things then they can get public opinion to swing behind them; then they can maybe actually do the things the international community is asking them to do but if they don't get that – if they only get words, if they only get the lifting of the closure for one day so the Palestinians can vote – it won't make any difference.'

Note how the whole thing is only presented from the Palestinian point of view. The Israelis aren't even in the picture. The message? Israel doesn't want peace.

Hello, BBC governors! Wake up from your coma!