Melanie Phillips, a British journalist, broadcaster and author, writes a weekly column for JNS. Currently a columnist for The Times of London, her new book, The Builder’s Stone: How Jews and Christians Built the West and Why Only They Can Save…
Category: 7. Opinion
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It Was a Spectacular Party. Now It’s Time for Us Israelis to Face Reality
With signs and wonders, with both clumsy yet spectacular tidings, it seemed that for two weeks Israel had been preparing itself for something one cannot truly prepare for. From the moment the doors of the White House were opened and a voice…
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Injustice that calls out to the heavens: My 1450 days in ICE prison
I write this tragic story describing my bitter fate to be recorded in history. It may well be the last thing I ever write. ICE has detained me for 1,450 days, each second of it a torment of fear, haunted by Judge Salavati’s death sentence and…
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Why Turkey’s “Peace” guarantee is a hostage to Islamism
The ink has barely dried on the October 2025 Gaza ceasefire agreement, yet its core architecture contains a catastrophic flaw: the structural inclusion of the Republic of Turkey as a co-guarantor.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s presence at…
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I Held Up This Sign at the Knesset as a Mirror of Truth – to Trump and the Public – Opinion
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Haaretz.com, the online English edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, gives you breaking news, analyses and opinions about Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish…
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It is not over, yet
When you leave evil breathing, you don’t preserve morality. You postpone tragedy. Opinion.
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The hostage return that made history
His deep sorrow over the missed window of opportunity in the late 1980s, coupled with the quiet humility that marked the Six-Day War chief of staff, was etched in his face at every painful meeting with Arad’s family—especially with his late…
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A Constitution for Gaza | Israel National News
If there is a lasting peace deal between Israel and Gaza, the internal Gazan violence is brought to an end, and a governing entity is in place, a new Constitution to administer Gaza may have to be created and come into force. Unlike the case of…
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Ten reasons to stand by Israel
This article appeared in Newsmax and is reposted with the author’s permission. It is a clear and factual way to present Israel’s cause, especially to those swayed by the anti-Israel protests.
Turmoil, hatred and violence erupted against Jews in…
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It’s not just Hamas in Gaza
In the early stages of Israel’s counter-offensive following the October 2023 invasion from Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was asked about the civilian casualties that began to mount in Gaza.
I remember hearing his reply, which…
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