With her fellow Republicans seemingly unable to produce a coherent vision for America to counter the disastrous Biden administration a recent speech was pitch-perfect and received by her conservative London audience like rain in a desert.

The West has incentivized endless violence in the Middle East through its insistence on rewarding Palestinian Arab rejectionism and anti-Jewish bigotry by punishing Israel and undermining its security purely for resisting such attempts to destroy it.

What was so refreshing was the clarity of Haley’s message and her refusal to soft-soap brutal realities. If the West is to defend itself, she warned, it has to be prepared to take the pain and sacrifice involved in decoupling from China and Russia. It needs to show strength and the intention to win.

Melanie Phillips, a British journalist, broadcaster and author, writes a weekly column for JNS. Currently a columnist for “The Times of London”