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Britain Giving Up Against Global Jihad
[Wall Street Journal Europe] Melanie Phillips - In Britain, the war in Gaza has revealed the extent to which the media, intelligentsia and political class have simply crumbled in the face of the global jihad. Years of demonizing Israel and appeasing Islamist extremism within Britain have now coalesced, as a result of the media misrepresentation of the Gaza war as an atrocity against civilians, in an unprecedented wave of hatred against Israel and a sharp rise in attacks on British Jews. It was Britain which took the lead in framing the UN resolution calling upon Israel to withdraw all its forces from Gaza while making no mention whatever of Hamas. And it was Britain which also drew a disquieting moral equivalence between Hamas terrorism and Israeli self-defense. Nevertheless, "middle Britain" is beginning to grasp that the Islamists in Gaza are the same as those rampaging through the streets of London.