Melanie Phillips

Is a bunch of young Israeli lawyers working round the clock sustained only by Diet Coke, falafel and cigarettes about to pull off the legal equivalent of the Six-Day War?

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Sometimes, going on  strike is the last refuge of the useless.

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I had not intended to say any more about my decision to transfer my blog from the Spectator to my own site. However, some ill-informed and even vicious speculation has started to appear about my move, which I therefore feel I have no option but to correct.

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Asked by the Guardian to respond to my suggestion of stupidity in declaring that Islamophobia had ‘crossed the threshold of middle-class respectability’ Baroness Warsi, co-chairman of the Conservative Party, said:

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Yup, Michele Bachmann gets it -- and how. Bachmann is a Christian. Christianity owes its existence to Judaism. An unbreakable thread links Judaism, Christianity and America. Israel embodies American and western values. Abandon Israel and you abandon America and destroy the west.

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Appallingly, that fine and prominent Australian journalist Andrew Bolt is being prosecuted in an Australian court for racial discrimination.

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The Israeli historian Professor Benny Morris is currently spending time in Britain doing research for a new book. Morris has earned the unusual distinction of becoming a target of ire from both sides of the political divide. Once excoriated as a ‘New Historian’ for allegedly distorting the early history of Israel, in recent years he has become a hate-figure for the left. This is because, since the 2000 intifada, he has come to believe that the single most important reason for the Middle East impasse is that there is no Palestinian ‘partner for peace’, and that instead the Palestinians show, by every word and deed that they want to wipe Israel off the map.

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At first sight, David Cameron’s remarks yesterday on the vital importance of fathers to their children’s lives might have produced a sigh of relief.

To traditionalists, the Coalition Government has shown alarming signs of wobbling away from the totemic promise made by Mr Cameron

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Colonel Richard Kemp, former Commander of British Forces in Afghanistan, spoke in Tel Aviv six days ago about the Israel Defence Force.

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I have received the following comment from an Icelandic reader:

'I just wanted to tell you that, thanks to your articles and writings in defence of Israel that I was finally able to see what Israel has to live with every day of its existence and to make matters worse is hounded by the western left p

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