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MELANIE PHILLIPS - A RED LINE HAS BEEN CROSSED IN ISRAEL

Melanie Phillips is a Jewish UK journalist and an astute commentator.  Here she offers insights on what's going on in Israel that one won't easily find elsewhere. 

Israel’s three-month-old protest movement, which has repeatedly brought tens of thousands into the streets, is now crossing an increasing number of red lines.

There are serious anxieties that protests will disrupt next week’s Memorial Day for Fallen Soldiers and Independence Day ceremonies. . . 

The Israeli protests are being fed by several different agendas. Some people oppose the judicial reforms because they believe the judiciary provides the only check on political power. Some want to bring down Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Some are frightened by religious or nationalist extremists in the government.

The deeper reason, one that connects all of the above, is secular Israel’s onslaught against Jewish religiosity in the public square. . . 

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**  A couple years ago I published  the following important post: "Melanie Phillips:  America, the Nation State, the Jews and the Bible."

OS GUINESS INTERVIEW ON HIS NEW BOOK "SIGNALS OF TRANSCENDENCE"

For pure listening pleasure, it would be hard to beat this excellent interview with Os Guinness on his new book Signals of Transcendence.  Os gives thumbnail accounts of Malcolm Muggeridge, W.Hl Auden. G.K. Chesterton, C.S. Lewis, Sir Kenneth Clark and others. 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aOijj9IcAY

 

GOOD FRIDAY NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE - 1956

Buildings with lighted crosses to honor Good Friday in April 1956. Left to right: 60 Wall Tower, 20 Exchange Place (formerly known as City Bank Farmers Trust Co.) and 40 Wall Street. Photo taken on April 5, 1956.  (Ed Peters/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)

Last month, a poll from The Wall Street Journal found that just 39% of Americans say their religious faith is very important to them, compared with 62% as recently as 1998.   You won't see these buildings up with crosses in 2023.  Times have changed big time and not for the better.

DR. JOHN CAMPBELL - THE INVISIBILITY OF THE VACCINE INJURED

The Case of Mel

The estimable, widely-followed, influential U.K. based Dr. John Campbell posted an interview yesterday with a vaccine injured Australian woman named "Mel" whose case is utterly tragic. 

Doctors are in the dark about the vaccine injured, they are not trained to recognize injuries (and in fact discouraged from probing the subject), and don't know how to treat those debilitated from the vaccine, with the result that people are often suffering alone and without help, commonly ostracized and censored.  Dr. Campbell was an early supporter of vaccines and is now angered about the "safe and effective" narrative and the lack of interest in recognizing and helping the injured.