Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££
[…] albeit in an entirely different social, cultural and political context. What made it possible for these groups to cooperate with each other was their shared hatred of Israel and resentment towards the two ‘imperialist’ superpowers. This type of cooperation was exemplified by such things as the occasional employment of ex-SS and Wehrmacht men as […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] essential struggle against terrorism by attacking Iraq? Would we thus turn the Middle East into a set of friendly democratic capitalist societies ready to make peace with Israel, or into a region of sullen humiliation, a fertile and almost inexhaustible recruiting ground for further terrorists for whom Britain is a main target?'(27) This campaign […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] warning against a Russian-German coalition likely influenced British foreign policy leading up to August 1914. Another piece of the puzzle assembled by Preparata is the mysterious Israel Helphand (also Helfand), otherwise known as Parvus, a well-regarded Marxist author, trusted associate of Trotsky and key mediator between the Kaiser and the Bolsheviks who arranged, […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] health insurance. The word ‘cynicism’ seems awfully inadequate. From there, it was only a short step to helping reelect President Calvin Coolidge. Before long, Bernays was helping Israel to lobby the US military and recasting India as a worthy recipient of $1bn-worth of aid. He became the propaganda mastermind in overthrowing Guatemala’s elected government […]
Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££
[…] a spook briefing which began, “The terrorist who hi-jacked a 24,000 ton passenger ship is to plan and command a massive revenge attack by the PLO on Israel and her allies.” May 8th 1988, Sunday Express, Massie tells us that “Mrs Thatcher has given the security services two months to crack down on IRA […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] Islam. The hardliners will do almost anything to block what they see as ‘appeasement’. Internationally, the origin of this hardline school of thought is not so much Israel (though it plays its role) but France, which has honed its anti-Islamism on Algeria and support for its Arab allies. France is still trying to preserve […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] use the same methods against the Palestinians, although with considerably greater firepower. It is worth making the point here that anyone who compares the collective punishment that Israel recently inflicted on Gaza with the Holocaust, not only shows a shameful ignorance of the horrors of the Holocaust, but also misses the real colonial antecedents […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] states and then leave.’ (p. 59) The same author, rather boldly goes so far as to write this: ‘as long as support to autocratic Arab regimes and Israel continues unabated, Washington’s rhetoric about freedom and democracy carries little conviction. (p. 61)……… As Iraq testifies, there is probably not enough soft power around to compensate […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] couple of million pounds, a planeload of weapons and perhaps five thousand lives. And twenty-five years later, it all turned to dust.’ In a later chapter on Israel Fisk writes: ‘When I first visited the West Bank scarcely nine years after the 1967 war, there was in the occupied territories an Israeli-controlled Palestinian police […]
Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££
[…] did not stick to his previous declarations and states that one of the ‘Englishmen’ had presented himself in Arabic as an Egyptian, and could have been from Israel. Peter Niggl has opened up the subject: it is certainly worth further investigation. Geheim is a well-documented and wide-ranging source of information on covert activities with […]
