Melanie Phillips

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How Israel took Jewish destiny in its hands

This tiny nation has become the moral leader of the free world

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Melanie Phillips
Jun 22, 2025
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Relative size of Israel, in orange, and Iran, in green

This piece was first published in thejc.com on June 19, three days before the US bombed Iran.

The siren that woke all of us up in Israel at 3 am last Friday after the Israeli air force attacked Iran wasn’t just a warning to take immediate shelter from any reprisal barrage.

It was in effect a shofar bla…

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