4:42pm
The Security Minister Baroness Neville-Jones has been given the task of drawing up the British government’s revised strategy on counter-terrorism – the last one having been more of a counter-counter-terrorism strategy. Today, the Telegraph has reported her as saying that British Muslims
must be persuaded that their long-term future lies in Britain... The minister said there needed to be a new approach in which people did not simply ‘rub along together and as long as people obey the law that’s quite sufficient.’
‘I think it’s a common experience now that we know less about each other than we used to and I think there’s a very strong feeling that we need to understand each other and we need to be working together as a nation,’ Lady Neville-Jones added.
‘[We are] trying to convince minorities in this country that
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6:52pm
A warm welcome to a new and very brave kid on the block – British Muslims for Israel. As I have often said, where someone stands on Israel is for me the litmus test of whether they are a decent and rational human being or pose a threat not merely to Jewish interests but to civilised values. Unfortunately, even among those many Muslims who are opposed to the jihad and support western democracy, animosity towards Israel often runs horrifyingly deep. Any Muslim who speaks up in defence of Israel runs significant personal risks. So those behind British Muslims for Israel, which has emerged from the Institute for Middle Eastern Democracy, merit a huge amount of praise and support. They also offer a ray of hope for the future. They show that there are Muslims who pass that key civilisational...
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11:12pm
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One can only gape in stunned amazement at the extent of the idiocy being displayed by the leaders of America, Britain and Europe over the ‘Arab Spring’ – which should surely be renamed ‘the Arab Boomerang’.
First of all, their declared policy is utterly incoherent. They claim that their aim in Libya is not regime change. Yet bombing Gaddafy’s compound hardly signals their desire that he should stay alive, let alone in power. Yesterday Obama said Gaddafy should leave power. Today he said overthrowing Gaddafy by force would be a mistake. In similar vein, Britain’s Foreign Secretary William Hague says the UK wants Gaddafy to leave power -- but that’s not regime change, because apparently it’s up to him to decide to do so. Presumably, for both Hague and...
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9:07am
A startling opinion piece in this morning’s Daily Telegraph by Conservative MP Louise Bagshawe shows there is still some decency and integrity left in Britain’s governing class. Ms Bagshawe was stunned to discover only via Twitter the circumstances of the Fogel family massacre – and even more stunned to discover the cursory and misleading BBC coverage of the atrocity. She writes:
The more I read, the more the BBC's broadcast silence amazed me. What if a settler had entered a Palestinian home and sawn off a baby’s head? Might we have heard about it then?
...The next morning, the BBC's public affairs team emailed me a response that amounted to a shrug. The story ‘featured prominently on our website’, they said. It was important to report on the settlements to put the murder in context, they said.
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2:29pm
A bomb went off about an hour and a half ago on or next to a bus in central Jerusalem. About 25 people have been hurt; details are still unclear.
An interview transmitted a few minutes ago on BBC World with the Editor-in-Chief of the Jerusalem Post, David Horovitz, established what I’m sure will be the signature motif of moral imbecility with which this latest atrocity will be reported by the British and western media. The interviewer asked whether this bomb attack was most likely in response to the recent Israeli attacks on Gaza in which eight civilians, four of them children, had been killed.
After a small but perceptible intake of breath, Horovitz replied correctly that the recent atrocity of note had been the cold-blooded massacre of the Fogel family including a three-month old baby, who had had their...
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7:29am
I have now opened a Twitter account as MelanieLatest, purely to update everyone on my latest blog posts, articles and public appearances.
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