The fevered, as you so aptly call them, do not even listen to anything which disputes what they’ve accepted as truth and repeated for five years. A bunch of folks wrote books, after all, which say the same things, thus it must be so.

And to the media, the latest crisis began when Israel decided, for no reason, to attack Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip. That was Erekat’s line, and he is frankly contemptible. Sharon and Netanyahu, as well as all American leaders on these shows this morning, would have none of it. That’s important.

As for Gaza, odd it is that the humanitarian interests evidence themselves when Israel strikes back but not before. You could barely find a story anywhere in the week before the counter attack, a not to delicate attempt to frame a good guy/bad guy image leaving little to the imagination.