There is no negotiation you can have with religious fanatics like the Iranian regime who believe

that by bringing about the apocalypse, they will bring to earth the Shia Messiah.

I want to ask you about the anti-Semitism crisis, which is the worst outburst of racism of my lifetime.

For these people in the West, they are trying to tear the Jews out of their lives, out of their

consciences, out of their will, and the root of it is even blacker than anyone might think.

Do you think America is turning its back on Israel?

I think Trump really does have a love for the Jewish people. The Democratic Party is finished

in terms of its support for Israel or indeed truth or indeed decency or morality. And in a way

that I think that, you know, the Labour government has completely lost the plot. It has absolutely gone down these rabbit holes which have turned truth and lies inside

out. And there's no coming back from there.

Hello, welcome back to the Brendan O'Neill show with me, Brendan O'Neill, and my very special

guest this week, Melanie, welcomeNeill show with me, Brendan O'Neill, and my very special guest

this week, Melanie, welcome to the show.

Hello, Brendan, very good to see you.

Really good to see you in these crazy times.

Listeners will know straight away what I want to talk to you about.

You are a world-renowned expert and commentator on the subject we're about to talk about today,

which is Israel and its enemies and the wars that it is fighting on various different fronts.

So I want to ask you all about that stuff, your feelings on it, your thoughts, what it's like there in Israel, where you are, all of that.

But let's kick off by asking you whether you're

surprised at what's happened over the past few days. So Israel is now at war with Iran. I guess in

some ways it's been a long time coming, but it does seem to have been quite swift and a little

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