The Moral Maze programme on Radio 4 last night was an outrage. We were treated to a long list of angry sounding people discussing whether Europe was becoming more anti semitic, whether the State of Israel should exist and whether anyone who believes that if Israel shouldn't exist they must automatically be branded anti semitic. The people presenting the arguments were all zealots and had clearly come to the programme with completely fixed positions. Some of the "witnesses" were treated badly in my opinion: the problem seems to have been that everyone knew everyone else or they knew everyone else's work and writings on this subject so they were like boxers who had been watching films of each other as they prepared for a fight! At one point someone wondered where the hate of Jewry had come from and likened it to racism ... for all of their learning they seemed ignorant of the fact that the Magna Carta contains references to Jews that are hardly flattering; and that was written in 1215, almost 800 years ago! I wish they could have found a better topic. I have to confess that I am completely turned off by anything to do with this issue as it has been festering for decades and we are, wretchedly and unfortunately, no nearer a solution: billion of Pounds are wasted on this problem, too as the "best" brains in the political world can find no solution. Then the BBC invites these bad tempered people onto Radio 4 to discuss whether the problem's getting worse or not! Waste of time DW