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A question of identity

A question of identity

There's one enormous difference between the Taliban and the Palestinians

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Melanie Phillips
Aug 31, 2021
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Joshua passing the river Jordan with the Ark of the Covenant; Benjamin West, 1800

Britain’s prime minister, Boris Johnson, said at the weekend that he might recognise the Taliban as the legitimate government in Afghanistan if it undertook to prevent the country from again becoming “an incubator for global terror”.

Subsequently, he seemed to row back from …

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