[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] royal – than that of the Windsors, as her ancestry (‘bloodline’ is the authors’ preferred terminology) could be traced back not only to the ‘Royal House of Israel’ but to Jesus himself (assuming one accepts that he was an anti-Roman Jewish rebel who married Mary Magdalene and had off-spring!). The instigators of Diana’s killing […]
[…] and whom do they represent? (Answer, roughly: they’re professional politicians and they represent the interests of America, the City of London – i.e. American banks – and Israel.) Yes, the book is mostly the mutterings of what my friend and Lobster contributor Anthony Frewin calls the self-marginaliser. But what are you going to do? […]
[…] believe for he offers the same mixture of sanctimonious self-delusion and mind-boggling ignorance as our Bible-reading leader. A splendid raspberry was blown in Cooper’s direction by Jared Israel at http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/cooper.htm Faking it One of the plagues of contemporary life is the endless ticking of boxes and filling of forms as bureaucracies try to invent […]
NuLab and Uncle Sam In the last issue I discussed the research by Giles Scott-Smith on the US State Department’s funding of a big freebie trip to the US for Mrs Thatcher in 1967, after the US embassy in London had spotted her as a possible future prime minister. Scott-Smith has more information on the […]
[…] operating environment. To make money, ex-spooks require a high-risk one. As this market dribbles away, they are doing all they can to develop new income streams. 9 Israel is already a quasi member of the EU, participating, for example, in scientific research projects 10 This is where ex-spook public affairs consultancies, including those which […]
