Melanie Phillips

Two things are due to happen in Gaza in June.

The first is that a second shopping mall is due to open.

Published in: Spectator

The Times (£) says that David Cameron’s decision to step down from being a patron of the Jewish National Fund shows the British government is becoming cool on Israel.

You don’t

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David Cameron is clearly experiencing an unwelcome initiation into what might be dubbed the iceberg school of politics.

You’re steaming confidently along at the bridge of the good ship HMS Government when all of a sudden — wallop! 

You’ve hit an iceber

Published in: Daily Mail

In a particularly authoritative analysis, Charles Krauthammer identifies the extent of the threat posed by Obama to Israel’s interests  in his ‘1967 lines&rsquo

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On Tuesday evening, I went to the first night of Richard Bean’s new play at London’s National Theatre, One Man, Two Guvnors. It fully deserves the rave reviews it has received (see here, &

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The brazenness of the lie just makes you gasp.

Obama’s attempted ambush of Israel over the ‘1967 lines’ has been boomeranging in all kinds of ways, including in Israel itself.

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The profound illiberalism of the British so-called liberal has been on egregious display over the past day. The British government has a new advisory panel on sexual health, replacing its old Independent Advisory Group on the issue.

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Apparently the British government is shocked – shocked! – that the European Union’s foreign service is attempting to usurp the role and authority of British diplomats.

Fancy!

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The splendid Daniel Greenfield, aka Sultan Knish, has penned a savage satire, ‘Three cheers for Terroristine’, on the madness through which we are living:

Why do we need

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In these terrible times when western elites are dominated by the fellow-travellers of Islamo-fascism and genocidal Judeophobia, it is very important to realise that there are also some outstandingly decent, courageous and rational individuals who are putting their heads above the parapet and speaking up for Israel

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