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The west's moral confusion

The west's moral confusion

Liberals cannot acknowledge the sources of evil, let alone defeat them

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Melanie Phillips
Oct 13, 2023
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The Good and Evil Angels; William Blake, 1757–1827

As was all too predictable, the war in Gaza is producing moral confusion in the west as people struggle to reconcile the evidence of unambiguous evil directed at the Jews with the innate liberal resistance to doing what is needed to defeat it.

People are nodding along sagely to the warnings that Israel mu…

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