Melanie Phillips: ‘How Conservatism’s Chickens Came Home to Roost in Gaza’

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Melanie Phillips opens her diatribe with these markers, this hysterical collection of ‘charges’ against a people subject to 75 years of subjugation, oppression, dispossession, incarceration, kidnap, murder. And in the present to Geocide and Famine, charges that Phillips vehemently denies, based on denial, alone!

The Enemy of Civilization

The malign malignant attack

Genocide of the Jews

The War against The West

War against Israel

The War against Civilization

Phillips is, along with other Jews, are given the role of Victim, as in the six charges above! Phillips also attacks an amorphous, ill defined ‘Left’, the Tories and some of the attendees at the Conference she is addressing. A 25 minute speech consisting of repetitions, reframed as need be, to fit the evolving rhetorical imperatives of propaganda!

Here is a valuable paper by Ewa Latecka, Department of Philosophy and Applied Ethics, Faculty of Arts, University of Zululand, KZN

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Rootless cosmopolitan,down at heels intellectual;would be writer. 'Polemic is a discourse of conflict, whose effect depends on a delicate balance between the requirements of truth and the enticements of anger, the duty to argue and the zest to inflame. Its rhetoric allows, even enforces, a certain figurative licence. Like epitaphs in Johnson’s adage, it is not under oath.' https://www.lrb.co.uk/v15/n20/perry-anderson/diary
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