"This is the way a civilisation dies"

Melanie Phillips, author of Londonistan, is sometimes exhausting, and very often dramatic. However, it is worth wading through the drama to get to heart of her arguments. In her diary post, "The media war against Israel, she writes,

"Certain conclusions are now inescapable. First, hatred of Israel and the irrationality associated with that hatred have now reached unprecedented proportions within Britain and the west. Second, with a few honourable exceptions the mainstream media are no longer to be believed in anything they transmit, either in words or pictures, about the Middle East. It is only the blogosphere which is now performing the most elementary disciplines of journalism: to aspire to objectivity, to separate facts from prejudices, to apply basic checks to claims being made by partisans to a conflict, and to be particularly wary of those with a proven track record of lying."

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