Instead, it is helping to provide a soapbox for people like Goldacre to lambaste the industry on issues that some of its members are already addressing.

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Most Europeans think that America's Middle East policy is tilted too heavily in favour of Israel and that Bush is prepared to ignore the excesses of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon while rarely missing an opportunity to lambaste Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

BBC: Bush's tough task in Europe