Melanie Phillips makes a pretty remarkable claim at the end of this post:
As polemic, this is fine stuff. But as analysis I confess I find it somewhat exaggerated. Whatever one thinks of the UN Geneva (Durban 2) conference (not much, actually), the notion that the United States is now hostile to Israeli interests is more than a little eyebrow-raising.The fact is that Israel faces the nightmare scenario that it now stands alone — and against America. Whether through naivety, ideology or rank malice, there is now a fifth columnist in the White House, undermining the cause of the free world. The vast majority of Americans who staunchly support Israel’s struggle to exist in the face of genocidal attack, and understand only too well its role as the front line of defence for the free world, need to become aware of what is being done in their name.
Consider, for instance, the text of House
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