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The flotilla and a hardening identity politics in Israel
Perhaps it was a mistake to subscribe to Melanie Phillips’ RSS feed. The UK columnist, beloved of Australia’s right-wing think tanks, is not known as ‘Mad Mel’ for nothing. As a reliably hysterical proponent of Western decline, encapsulated in her book ‘Londonistan’, a near science fictive account of the city’s ‘takeover’ by radical Muslims, her blog is always entertaining. So when the Gaza flotilla was raided it was always likely that she would jump into action. To put it mildly. She must have been at her desk for thirty hours straight; my email account eventually sent new entries to the spam folder. ‘Peace flotilla? This was an Islamist terror ambush!’, ‘The truth about the Turkish terror convoy’, ‘A global pogrom in the making’, and on it went. Like someone painting a bridge, she appears to have started on a new post as soon as the last one was finished.
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