The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] onto the ‘weapons of mass destruction’ line as the pretext. From the horse’s mouth O ne Luke Akehurst has recently become the director of BICOM, the Britain Israel Communications & Research Centre, the leading PR outfit for Israel in the UK, and a profile of him 40 shows how a section of the Israeli […]

The View from the Bridge (updated 20 Sep 2022)

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 6 or 7 million pounds from the British Jewish community for then Leader of the Labour Party Tony Blair.76 And thus the operation against Labour by the Israel lobby is complete: it now has an Israel-supporting leader, dissenting Jews are being expelled, and it will soon be dependent on Jewish money. Or is that […]

[PDF file]: […] 6 or 7 million pounds from the British Jewish community for then Leader of the Labour Party Tony Blair.48 And thus the operation against Labour by the Israel lobby is complete: it now has an Israel-supporting leader, dissenting Jews are being expelled, and it will soon be dependent on Jewish money. Or is that […]

The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies by Lt. General Michael T Flynn and Michael Ledeen

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the situation, Flynn has also been accused of being too close to the Russians. Something will have to give. Either Trump is going to have to disappoint Israel and the US neocons by abandoning this hostility to Iran or the rapprochement with Russia is likely to be short-lived. Certainly serious divisions and conflicts within […]

The Crimes Of Empire: Rogue Superpower and World Domination by Carl Boggs

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the fog of the Cold War set. (Note also these quantum developments in the speedy turn to global empire: the creation of the National Security State, 1947; Israel, 1948; and the Korean War, 1950). The crowning legal achievements formed in this new crucible, inter alia, were the U.N. Charter and Geneva Conventions – the […]

Labour Takes Power: The Denis MacShane Diaries

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] gossip about Blair and Mandelson which he actually seems to find more interesting. (p 72) One interesting point about these diaries is how little there is regarding Israel, which is not even listed in the index. This is somewhat surprising as MacShane was a committed member of the Labour Friends of Israel cabal. There […]

Livingstone, Zionism and the Nazis

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] beat the Left, he played into the hands of those eager to inflict damage by even the most outrageous smears. With the Blairites, the Labour Friends of Israel – urged on by the Israeli Embassy, where the appalling Mark Regev1 is ambassador – and more or less the entire British media waiting for an […]

Blair Inc. by Francis Beckett, David Hencke and Nick Kochan

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] sustain New Labour. A big contributor to Blair’s Faith Foundation is Haim Saban who the authors quote as saying: ‘I’m a one-issue guy and my issue is Israel. I used to be a leftie but am now very much on the right. The reason for the switch is Israel.’ Little known in the UK, […]

Making America Great

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] proposed they replace their Russian backers – ‘Russian gangsters likely fronting for Putin’, who had loaned the party $13 million – with ‘right-wing Jews and supporters of Israel’. (pp. 162-163) The Russian involvement with the European Far Right is obviously a subject that requires considerable more attention, especially considering that it has, as Wolff […]

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[…] officials and politicians but no promises were made; and, most importantly, no agreement was signed. Detailed accounts of these discussions are now available.8 Labour and and the Israel lobby Following one of those Internet trails, I came across the new(ish) website of 7 and or 8 3 the excellent Matt Taibbi 9 and found […]

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[…] have been rebutted by me 4 – and, in much more detail, by David Denton.5 If this is of interest, read Denton. *new* Labour and and the Israel lobby Following one of those Internet trails, I came across the new(ish) website of the excellent Matt Taibbi 6 and found he had written about a […]

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