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Media hacks like Gregory failed disgracefully on the Iraq Invasion precisely because there was absolutely no evidence of threat, WMDs or connection to 9/11.
The Israel/Palestine issue is thus not really comparable, as Palestine was clearly and directly launching missiles into Israel for months, a direct provocation for Israel's response.
I realize you don't explicitly equate the two events, but there is an implicit danger when you link the failure of the media to pose adversarial questions in each case. Thus your post implies both acts of "war," as such, were comparably propagandistic acts of provocation, deserving of media scrutiny, in which the media acted as protector of government lie and spin.
But these two events are not comparable on the underlying issues. Thus, Gregory's obsequiousness, which you rightly critique, is not equally pathetic in each case.
Israel, as our ally responding to a direct attack and as a foreign nation in which Gregory does not live nor is a citizen of, can not be expected to be met with the same media scrutiny and adversarian positioning that we should expect when it is our own country, and our case for war is as shockingly pathetic as it was in 2003.
