Melanie Phillips

Once again, here’s yet more information about the war between Hamas and Israel that unaccountably you may not have come across in today’s UK mainstream media.

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So here we go again. At 9 pm this evening Israel time, a ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian terror groups of Gaza came into effect.

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Here’s yet more information about the war between Hamas and Israel that unaccountably you may not have come across in today’s UK mainstream media. Today’s entries are all for the Hall of Shame, which is getting mighty crowded.

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People have asked me to indicate precisely where on the BBC Radio Two Jeremy Vine show website to find my encounter yesterday with Ben Soffer of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign.

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Here’s some more information about the war between Hamas and Israel that unaccountably you may not have come across in today’s UK mainstream media.

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Here is some information about the war between Gaza and Israel that for some unaccountable reason you may have missed today in Britain’s mainstream media.

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In Israel, an enormous call-up of reservists suggests that a ground invasion of Gaza is imminent – and this morning’s further attacks on Tel Aviv make that more likely still. The prospect of a ground invasion fills Israelis with dread.

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Hamas and its acolytes are committing crimes against humanity twice over. They are deliberately targeting Israeli civilians with their rockets and missiles, trying to kill as many of them as possible including women and children. They are also using their own people as human shields...

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So here we go again. In the four days from Saturday until yesterday, Islamic terrorists under the Hamas umbrella fired more than 120 rockets from Gaza at Israeli civilians, along with a number of mortar shells.

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The BBC has expended considerable effort, not to mention a very large amount of licence fee-payers’ money, upon suppressing evidence of its biased reporting.

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The greatest satisfaction today over the re-election of Obama is not being felt in the Democratic Party. It is not being felt among the media, who are no longer objective observers but have turned instead into corrupt partisans who ruthlessly censored the truth about Obama and helped peddle his demonising propaganda about his opponent. It is not being felt among the gloating, drooling decadents of the western left who now scent a great blood-letting of all who dare defy their secular inquisition. No, the greatest satisfaction is surely being felt in Iran.

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Until now, such public attention as has been devoted to the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi on September 11, in which the US ambassador to Libya and three others were murdered, has dwelt upon whether President Obama had falsely blamed the attack on violent reaction to a film about Islam even though he knew from the start that this was in fact a premeditated attack by al Qaeda.

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My column in last week’s Daily Mail, on the abuse of the Liverpool Care Pathway, has generated a very large response both from patients’ relatives with their own stories to tell and from doctors and other health care staff.

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Fascinating to see tiny movements on the left to attempt open up debate just a fraction on a taboo subject– and then watch the vicious response.

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If Dianafication describes the descent of Britain into emotional incontinence, Borismania describes the descent of Britain into demotic derangement.

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If Dianafication describes the descent of Britain into emotional incontinence, Borismania describes its descent into demotic derangement..

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The deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats, Simon Hughes, has told the Jewish Chronicle that the time has come to consider a ‘one-state solution’ to the impasse between Israel and the Palestinians.

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Mitt Romney has made some remarks at a fund-raising dinner which have apparently shocked America and the entire western world to the core.

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So now we can see the terrible results of western liberal hubris, the so-called Arab Spring so credulously and stupidly brought into being by Barack Obama, David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy.

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So now the crisis in relations between Obama and the state of Israel has finally blown publicly open.

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