Hitting the nail on the head

"...gripped by an unprecedented degree of irrationality, prejudice and hysteria over the issues of Iraq, the terrorist jihad and Israel... " Via Powerline, this link to an article (actually a talk at a conference) by Melanie Phillips, "The Reporting of Iraq and Israel: An Abuse of Media Power". An excerpt: "A friend went into Blackwells university bookshop in Oxford and asked the counter clerk: 'Do you have a copy of Alan Dershowitz's The Case for Israel?' 'There is no case for Israel', the counter clerk replied." Read ye all of it.