**'Home truths' from Melanie Phillips convey one message: #Israel will always be at war**
*In a speech filled with #slamophobic vitriol, the British commentator has ripped away the last fig leaf concealing #Zionism's true purpose*
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/melanie-phillips-home-truths-convey-one-message-israel-will-always-be-war
from #MiddleEastEye #MEE
David Hearst
25 Nov 2025 19:56 GMT
> Very much in the mode of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Phillips declared that there was no such thing as > [> #> Palestine](https://expressional.social/tags/Palestine )> or > [> #> Palestinians](https://expressional.social/tags/Palestinians )> . In fact, the only indigenous people around were the > [> #> Jews](https://expressional.social/tags/Jews )> , who were the only people with any historic, legal or moral entitlement to this land.
> To say this while activists in Britain are being arrested for shouting “from the river to the sea” as an allegedly pro-> [> #> Hamas](https://expressional.social/tags/Hamas )> chant, hands their defence lawyers a get-out-of-jail card.
> Because what Phillips is claiming is that all the land from the river to the sea is > [> #> Jewish](https://expressional.social/tags/Jewish )> . And as she knows...“from the river to the sea” has been Likud policy since 1977.
#news #politics #UKpolitics #UK
Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧
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