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[…] almost 40 years since Colin Wallace’s story began being reported, bringing IRD to our attention. *new* AIPAC When the events in Gaza began I wondered what the Israel lobby’s main body in the US – the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) – had been doing.5 The first few Google hits were about AIPAC […]

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[…] almost 40 years since Colin Wallace’s story began being reported, bringing IRD to our attention. *new* AIPAC When the events in Gaza began I wondered what the Israel lobby’s main body in the US, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), had been doing.5 The first few Google hits were about AIPAC funding Republicans. […]

DEADLY BETRAYAL: The Truth About Why the United States Invaded Iraq by Dennis Fritz

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[PDF file]: […] says nothing here about our national security, only emphasizing ‘credibility.’ (p. 34) However, in Fritz’s view the US invasion of Iraq was done largely on behalf of Israel. ‘The Iraq War was part of the neocon plan to dominate the Middle East in support of Israel.’ (p. 57) It doesn’t get much more blunt […]

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[…] of those MPs is Wes Streeting, who by Friday is likely to be the UK health secretary. Matt revealed how Streeting has received nearly £30,000 from the Israel lobby, and another £175,000 from companies linked to private healthcare.8 So there you go: the new Health Secretary has been bought by the private healthcare lobby. […]

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[…] of those MPs is Wes Streeting, who by Friday is likely to be the UK health secretary. Matt revealed how Streeting has received nearly £30,000 from the Israel lobby, and another £175,000 from companies linked to private healthcare.8 So there you go: the new Health Secretary has been bought by the private healthcare lobby. […]

Tittle-Tattle

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[PDF file]: […] constituency, Phil Wilson MP.5 Mandelson’s long-time associate, vice-chair of his Policy Network and frequent Guardian columnist, Patrick Diamond, is a co-opted board member. Former Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) chairman Stephen Twigg MP is president of Progress and the chair, John Woodcock MP, succeeded Blair loyalist John (now Lord) Hutton into the Barrow and […]

Tittle-tattle

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[PDF file]: […] that Reid is a consultant to G4S (formerly Group 4 Securicor), the world’s largest security company with a big interest in ‘homeland security’, airport handling and in Israel. (Lord Reid, as well as being a leading advocate of the Iraq invasion and toughness in the ‘war on terror’, is a longstanding member of Labour […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] did Covert Action and Rupert Murdoch last agree on something? *new* Open conspiracy? I’ve received comments about my use of the phrase ‘open conspiracy’ to describe the Israel lobby’s activities in this country. Are conspiracies not secret by definition? Yes, in a sense they are. Hence the impact of the phrase ‘open conspiracy’. I […]

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[…] did Covert Action and Rupert Murdoch last agree on something? *new* Open conspiracy? I’ve received comments about my use of the phrase ‘open conspiracy’ to describe the Israel lobby’s activities in this country. Are conspiracies not secret by definition? Yes, in a sense they are. Hence the impact of the phrase ‘open conspiracy’. I […]

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[…] in the Democratic Republic of Congo or Mali or Ethiopia does not seem to energise our campuses. But he also offered this in his conclusions:  And yet Israel succeeds. Why? Because of its values. A belief in courage, enterprise and endeavour. A belief in the worth of every individual’s soul. A robust democracy. A […]

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