And who cares what useless Abbas has to say? WHERE IS GILAD SHALIT?

Abduction, Hostage Exchange and associated diplomatic activities seem to develop into the most important national functions of the PA.

In answer to your question, thousands of journalists care about the whereabouts and wellbeing of Alan Johnston, millions of average citizens care about him, probably all politicians and administrators, not to mention his family and most of the population of the British Isles. Your question was posed in extreme bad taste. It would have been much better for you to remain silent and only to have thought the petty-minded and ugly comment which you wrote.

If he has not heard anything from captors that suggests that Johnston may have died in kidnappers custody as otherwise some demands would have been made by now.

thousands ? millions?? wow thats a lot of people worrying about an individual - try to be a little more accurate and just narrow it down a little to the biased BBC, leftie nutters, palestinian politicians - all worried about how his kidnapping reflects on THEM rather than worrying about poor Mr Johnston himself Most Britons however my dear Rustie are probably more worried about the soccer results

Without this leftist stooge peddling his vitriolic anti-Israel propaganda?

Ynet is an Israeli site & I doubt if 99% of Israelis care much about a BBC reporter who based his career on Israel-bashing for the biased BBC. On the other hand, we are all concerned about the welfare of our abducted soldier being held hostage by terrorists. We are being blackmailed into releasing terrorist criminals for his release. Since all the thousands of journalists, etc. care nothing about our hostage, why do you expect us to care about Alan Johnston?

Abbas is PA chairman, not Palestinian President. How many times do I have to tell you?

Who cares? How about his family? Friends? You're idiots...

I am form glasgow, i am not jewish though i wish i was. I do not support the paganstains in any way, they choose to ocuppy israeli land so they must suffer god's wrath. I dispise the london based bbc and it's anti-israeli and anti-jewish propagnda.

THUS GIVING THE PLO ETC RECOGNITION. THOMPSON SHOULD GET ON THE NEXT BA FLIGHT BACK TO THE UK - HE IS NOT KOHER ENOUGH TO FLY BY EL AL.

Where are the kidnapped soldiers. Far more important than this arab lover.

a hostage! Quite strange situation... All factions mention that they have him not... I do not know what is going on.... It is pretty sad that someone like him who is there to cover our news is treated this way. Really shameful...

#14- hahahahhaha im sorry i havent laughed tht hard in a long time! thnk u 4 ur ignorance!

B"H As soon as the BBC offers the abductors a position in the company as "honest reporters", their captive will show up. This is how the PA enfoces "balanced reporting". It abducts the reporters and waits for the balance to show up in the bank account of the government. Hostage taking is a big business in territories not controlled by a civilian population Israel. It makes you wonder why it is in anyone's interest not to have territory controlled by Israel.

I sent an email to the Newshour broadcast on the English service this morning. I expressed the thought that the current lengthy campaigning for Alan Johnston on the air provided a better insight into the chaos and violence in Palestinian society than any of deceptive candy-coated fairy stories about Gaza Johnston has been spinning during his tenure. For some reason they did not read it on the air.

Care to explain how am i ignorant?

Good on you Meir!