[…] analysis of the run-up to the invasion of Iraq which he shows was ‘driven by an alliance of….the military-industrial complex and the hard-line Zionists proponents of “greater Israel” in the “promised land”.’ This is a fine mixture of analysis and detailed research, as well as being an entertaining read. Notes It would be more […]
[…] the exercise had been to capture a deer, the Israeli pointed at the rabbit and said, ‘The rabbit confessed. He is a deer.’ Taken from Triple Cross: Israel, the Atomic Bomb and the man who leaked the story, Louis Toscano (Robert Hale, London 1991) p. 231. Other spook jokes would be welcomed. Public Records […]
[…] being at the heart of British foreign policy. A Muslim, critical of many things done in its name, she has routinely challenged the silencing of criticism of Israel in the name of anti-Semitism. Alibhai-Brown voices the slow but important politicisation of Britain’s 1.8 million Muslims, long seen as solid supporters of Labour. Blair’s recent […]
[…] Washington bigwigs, the leaders of a group of former Soviet bloc satellites trying to curry favour with America, Vaclav Havel of the Czech Republic, Natan Sharansky of Israel and Carl Bildt, the prime minister of Sweden, the committee was closed down in 2003 because its human rights rationale for the war had been abandoned […]
[…] of Africa, Asia and the Middle East, because of the illegal invasion of Iraq, its unfolding horror, the US Administration’s contempt for Islam and its support for Israel. (6) Added to these is universal awareness of America’s aggressive acquisition plans that it projected would spring-board the US into the top dog role world-wide, with […]
[…] training and advice, intelligence from NSA etc. etc. Pipes continues, stuffing his other foot into his mouth. On the one hand: ‘Much of the region’s anti-Western, anti- Israel, anti-democratic, anti-moderate and anti-modern behavior results from fears of clandestine forces….’ On the other hand: ‘Western leaders have to act with special propriety to shed a […]
[…] in practice, there was Searchlight and Labour Research. Pursuing its aim of amplifying the fascist ‘threat’ to bolster support for and the legitimacy of, the state of Israel, Searchlight was then pushing the idea that the Tories had been infiltrated by a barely disguised group of semi-fascists. This climaxed with the ‘Maggie’s Militants’ edition […]
[…] a difficult year for Brandt. During the Yom Kippur war, after an outcry in the German press, the Federal Republic refused to allow arms to travel to Israel from United States bases in Germany. Brandt explained that “we expressly protested against the use of our territory without notification, let alone consultation, as if NATO […]
[…] for the Study of Terrorism (Wilkinson). Non-UK groups include the Centre for Conflict Studies and Mackenzie Institute in Canada (Charters/Tugwell), the Jonathan Institute and Jaffee Centre in Israel; and in America, the Georgetown CSIS, Heritage Foundation, American Security Council (Singlaub/Stilwell), the International Security Council (Moonies), the Nathan Hale Institute and Rand Corporation. It also […]
[…] for several hours. She was a political exile with refugee status from the Home Office. An architect, she had stumbled across some big scam being run in Israel and had been forced to leave. The story was long and complicated. I’ve now forgotten most of it. She had piles of documents. She claimed that […]
