Melanie Phillips on Michele Bachmann

Melanie Phillips, whom I have had the pleasure of meeting here in Israel, has moved her blog off the Spectator site to her own site. You can check out the reasons why here.

Melanie also has a timely post in which she discusses Michele Bachmann's pro-Israel bona fides, and concludes that Bachmann gets it. As I am sure many of you have heard, on Monday, Bachmann announced that she is running for President of the United States.

Yup, Michele Bachmann gets it -- and how. Bachmann is a Christian. Christianity owes its existence to Judaism. An unbreakable thread links Judaism, Christianity and America. Israel embodies American and western values. Abandon Israel and you abandon America and destroy the west. That is what Obama is doing. That is what Bachmann – a candidate for the US presidency -- has said in this video. She got to the heart of it -- why the west is going down, why Israel is the key issue of our time, why the drum now being beaten by Obama and the western left against Israel is the very same drum that is being beaten against America and the west itself.

The implications for American politics are crystal clear. Israel should become the driving issue for Republicans.

Read the whole thing.