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Melanie Phillips

Melanie Phillips, a British journalist, broadcaster and author, writes a weekly column for JNS. Currently a columnist for “The Times of London,” her personal and political memoir, “Guardian Angel,” has been published by Bombardier, which also published her first novel, “The Legacy,” in 2018. Go to melaniephillips.substack.com to access her work.

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Melanie PhillipsAugust 4, 2022

With al-Zawahiri’s assassination, it’s Groundhog Day for America (again)

The United States has now returned to the point at which it all started: the axis between the Taliban and Al-Qaeda that led to 9/11 and put troops into Afghanistan in the first place.

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Melanie PhillipsJuly 28, 2022

Israeli TV’s shallow, irresponsible stunt

Gil Tamary made clear he knew exactly what he was doing by referring to the site as “a place forbidden to non-Muslims,” and boasting, “I am the first Israeli journalist on the spot to broadcast these images and in Hebrew.”

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Melanie PhillipsJuly 21, 2022

The urgent need for proper Jewish leadership

Core Jewish principles involve putting others’ interests before your own, respecting every human being and observing moral codes based on right and wrong.

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Melanie PhillipsJuly 14, 2022

Biden’s warm words and empty gestures

Despite the president’s genuine affection for Israel, his itinerary sent out baleful signals.

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Melanie PhillipsJuly 7, 2022

The fall of Boris Johnson

The question for voters in Britain, America and Israel is whether a leader’s gifts are more important than his character flaws—or vice versa.

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Melanie PhillipsJune 30, 2022

Licking Ben & Jerry’s

It shows what can be achieved when there’s a backlash against anti-Israel bigotry.

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Melanie PhillipsJune 23, 2022

The moral clarity of Nikki Haley

With her fellow Republicans seemingly unable to produce a coherent vision for America to counter the disaster of the Biden administration, a recent speech was pitch-perfect and received by her conservative London audience like rain in a desert.

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Melanie PhillipsJune 16, 2022

The EU’s Jerusalem charm offensive

Despite all the warm words in Jerusalem, there’s no sign that the longtime hostility towards Israel is about to ease.

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Melanie PhillipsJune 9, 2022

The anti-Israel travesty of Pillay’s kangaroo court

The fact that the United Nations singles out Israel for condemnation as a human-rights abuser when it is in fact the sole democracy in the Middle East and deeply committed to human rights is a travesty.

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Melanie PhillipsJune 2, 2022

Biden administration won’t stop appeasing the Palestinians

There is also a lethal refusal to face reality in the Middle East that has characterized American administrations, as well as governments in Britain and Europe, for many decades.

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Melanie PhillipsMay 26, 2022

No rainbow’s end for the Jews of Oz

New Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has called Israel an “oppressor” and accused it of collective punishment against the Palestinian Arabs.

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Melanie PhillipsMay 19, 2022

The ‘broken windows’ strategy for combating Israel demonization

A culture self-destructs if its people choose not to defend it. Bad people get away with really bad stuff when everyone else chooses to look the other way.

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Melanie PhillipsMay 12, 2022

How Western dupes help propagate murderous Palestinian lies

The mainstream media generally choose to believe the Palestinians, even though they routinely lie about Israel. These lies are weapons of war, deployed to incite violence and mass murder.

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Melanie PhillipsMay 5, 2022

Why Russia has once again turned on the Jews

This reversal of truth and lies, victim and aggressor, right and wrong is the hallmark of Soviet propaganda.

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Melanie PhillipsApril 28, 2022

The real reason for Blinken’s alarming warning about Iran

It’s possible that the U.S. secretary of state intended to frighten people so much that opposition to American concessions to Iran to seal the deal just melted away.

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