Intermission

Richard.......

Hope you get a bit of a rest Melanie. You deserve it.

Staffan Hultman

Hag Sameach!

Augustus

And a very Happy Pesach to you
Melanie.

Andre

Labriot Melanie
Israel - always in my prayers - this Easter more than ever

Peter Marcus, MD

And a very Happy Pesach to you too, Melanie - a voice of reason in a sea of insanity!

Brian Moshe

Chag sameach! Melanie.

Chag Sameach Melanie.

and many more to you!

Graeme Thompson

Chag Sameach Melanie.

Oflife

Ditto! :)

Looks like the Egyptians (and those around them) have realised a few thousand years later why we left. Leadership by fear doesn't work.

Forest Fan

Herzen...what are you going on about?

gary

bless you mel, and happy pesach

Mr. Mabutoh Afunfa

Herzen, have you seen the Pyramids yet?.
Have a good cracker break Melanie, enjoy your freedom.
Happy Passover.

Gerry C

Thank you for your Easter wishes, Melanie, and a kosher Pesach to you and yours. And peace upon all Israel.

Adam B.

A Happy Pesach and Happy Easter to all people of goodwill.

raymond d

May the Shalom of our dear Lord rest on you this Easter/Passover. Those of us who love and pray for Israel, wish you every blessing. Psalm 122 v6

Amanda

Chag sameach to you, too, Ms Phillips

robert briskin

dear Melanie,Hag Sameah to you and Brachot.

GaryL

Hag Sameach l'Pessach to Melanie, her blog and all who sail in it.

The Exodus story -
http://videocloud.aish.com/movies/Google%20Exodus.mp4

vertneat

Happy and peaceful passover to you Melanie and a happy Easter to all those of goodwill.

Matt

Enjoy the break Melanie, and thank you for everything you do. You make a lot of people feel a bit better about the world knowing we're not the only ones.

Chag Sameach!

Velhos Fatos

Peshach Sameach, Melanie!

Jennie Laurie

Happy Passover from a gentile who doesn't know the right words - come back rested and strong.

christH

God Bless and keep you Melanie!
Have a great holiday and come back fighting on behalf of those of us who might despair that we`re individually flawed. The likes of you,Peter Hitchens, Douglas Murray etc are really appreciated.

Ian Hills

Don't know if you're aware of UKIP Friends of Israel, Melanie. As you will see there's a link to them from the official UKIP website. This sort of activity makes a nice change from official Tory jew-baiting - that is, if you can call this shower Tories.

http://www.ukipfriendsofisrael.blogspot.com/

http://www.ukip.org/

Mary Lou Gist

May God bless you during Passover. We evangelical Christians in America are praying for the peace of Israel, and I will be praying for you also.
Shalom.

Oflife

Uhm, forgetting everything else for a moment, has anyone noticed that the DT is reporting Al Q have hidden a nuke somewhere in Europe, primed to detonate if Osama B vanishes in a puff of Predator hellfire.?
Yet, the media, that surely lost it's common sense a while back is highlighting how many people were 'unlawfully' detained at G Bay, and some may have been illegally tortured.

Has anyone considered that the authorities may be attempting to extract the location of said thermonuclear bomb from anyone who may just have an idea?

#dumb&dumbstruck

Phillip Campbell

Come back soon Melanie ! And well over the matzot !

Merlyn

I hope you had a good rest Melanie and are ready for the next bit of spicy news regarding the BBC, the Al Qaeda propaganda outlet.

EDDIE

In today’s Daily Telegraph 26/4/11 we are told that that Melanies Londonistan is fully functional. There is a collection of Mosques around the country prom0ting radicalism including, we are told, Regents Park Mosque. Al –Quada operatives have even been in contact with the BBC. Perhaps that explains, to some extend, the BBC’s obsession with and relentless pursuit of Israel, or as the BBC spokesman comments, “ independence and impartiality are at the heart of all BBC World Service output” which I reckon is about as truthful as the BBC manage to get.

Miranda Rose Smith

Dear Ms. Phillips: I hope you, and all the religious Jews on this website, had a happy, healthy, kosher Passover.

I hope all the Christians on this website had a happy, beautiful, meaningful Easter.

Tilly

Oflife -

Amazing what some people will tell interrogators under torture.

If you look at a wider selection of the Wikileaks dossiers built around Guantanamo "confessions" and count up the number of loony claims (and even loonier suspicions) which eventually turned out to be ... well ... just plain loony, I think you'll soon stop worrying about that nuke.

rippon

Israeli Intellectuals press for a Palestinian State
April 20, 2011, New York Times

Dozens of Israel’s most honoured intellectuals and artists have signed a declaration endorsing a Palestinian state on the basis of the 1967 borders and asserting that an end to Israel’s occupation “will liberate the two peoples and open the way to a lasting peace.”
...
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/20/world/middleeast/20mideast.html

Adam B.

rippon - so what? I await a similarly minded Palestinian group which protests Hamas' and Fatah's terrorism, rocket attacks, antisemitism and rejectionism.

Miranda Rose Smith

rippon
April 26th, 2011 6:52pm
Israeli Intellectuals press for a Palestinian State
April 20, 2011, New York Times

Dozens of Israel’s most honoured intellectuals and artists have signed a declaration endorsing a Palestinian state on the basis of the 1967 borders and asserting that an end to Israel’s occupation “will liberate the two peoples and open the way to a lasting peace.”
...
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/20/world/middleeast/20mideast.html

The 1967 borders? The only "Palestinian" state around in 1967 was Jordan.

I believe it was George Orwell who said that some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals will fall for them. WHEN Israel was within its 1967 borders, the Arab states were determined to wipe it off the map.

These people make me feel like Shakespeare's Margaret of Anjou: "Why strewst thou sugar on that bottled spider/ Whose deadly web ensnareth thee about?" Those "artists" and "intellectuals" will only wake up when the beheading sword is descending on their necks.

Miranda Rose Smith

Adam B.
April 26th, 2011 11:17pm
rippon - so what? I await a similarly minded Palestinian group which protests Hamas' and Fatah's terrorism, rocket attacks, antisemitism and rejectionism.

Bravo, Mr. B.

Gershon

@rippon

They can't be very intellectual if they don't even know that there is no such thing as the "1967 borders". What they are referring to is the 1949 armistice line, a line that simply marked where the fighting stopped and was never intended to be a permanent border. One should also ask these self proclaimed luminaries what should be done with areas that were designated by the 1947 UN partition plan to be part of Israel (for example, the Etzion bloc) and ended up on the wrong side of the 1949 armistice line.

Herzen

...when the Jews became a nation and a free people...

I always thought we obsereved a religious festival, not celebrated a tribal myth or national flag day.

Oflife

@Tilly: Of course. Of course. Silly me. Same with the (multiple) pre-9/11 and other attack warnings. So much chaff, so much gossip, so little idea which to take seriously. But the attacks still happened. Before they occured, anyone who bought up the issue was of course the laughing stock. Simultaneously fly four (or 12 as originally planned) aircraft into various US landmark structures? No way! Too many logistical hurdles and the risk of intergroup betrayal.

As you were saying.

Thomas

Gershon
April 27th, 2011 11:39am
It's not clear what you intend us to take away from this.

The Green Line is the Armistice Line. Correct. The Palestinian Arabs would agree that it is an arbitrary line dividing up their homeland between Israel, Jordan, Syria, and Egypt. However, they are willing to live with that and accept a state only on the territory that makes up a quarter of Mandate Palestine. Israel wants to take at least enough to leave it with 85% and most of the resources.

You mention the boundary proposed in the UN partition plan between two parts of an economic union. Are you proposing that Israel and the Palestinians should reach a settlement based on the partition boundary?

The recommendation for partition lapsed because the majority of the population opposed it. Perhaps we should revert to the position under international law at the time of Israel's declaration of independence and conquest of most of Palestine - when there was no legal basis for the establishment of a "Jewish" state (a state where anyone not Jewish was a second class citizen). Perhaps we should start again and establish a Palestine for all its inhabitants.

I suspect that is not what you intended.