[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] Tracking the events leading up to the Arab oil embargo, Engdahl claims the October 1973 Yom Kippur war, when Syria and Egypt launched a preemptive attack on Israel, had actually been ‘secretly orchestrated by Washington and London’. Henry Kissinger, then US Secretary of State, allegedly had primary responsibility for implementing the plan, which he […]
