Melanie Phillips

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Obama's third term

Biden's strategy of cognitive dissonance is straight from a previous anti-Israel playbook

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Melanie Phillips
Feb 05, 2021
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Joe Biden and Barack Obama, 2008

Some people are fretting that US President Joe Biden has not yet picked up the phone to call Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. They worry that this may betoken a new coolness by the United States towards Israel.

To which one can only wonder: what planet are such people living on?

For Israel scarcely needs the absen…

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