Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] story about sex and satanism. Forget the Palestinians On 13 August the BBC News carried the story of the agreement between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel to normalise relations.27 There was much related talk about how good this would be for trade in the Middle East. So presumably about oil, then. Just […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] the whistle on Dr Fox A nything written here about the departed Defence Secretary Liam Fox, his best man and unofficial adviser Adam Werritty, Britain’s ambassador to Israel Matthew Gould and the Cabinet Secretary Gus O’Donnell is likely to be out of date very quickly. Readers needing a little background could start with Jonathan […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] over eighty would have access to healthcare, terrorists will have attacked major cities because Obama refuses to use force, Iran will have dropped a nuclear bomb on Israel, Christian radio would be shut down’. For Focus Action and its followers, Obama was very much an ‘existential Dinesh D’Souza is something of a phenomenon in […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] than during previous recessions. Yes: oil, gas, timber, the prairies and proximity to the largest economy in the world might have had something to do with it! Israel also looms large in the authors’ vision of where Britain should be going. It is lauded for the successful hi-tech sector of its economy. Missing, as […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] confirmed. A few years later Oborne dipped his toes into the ocean explored in The Fate of Abraham with his Dispatches programme on the work of the Israel lobby in Westminster.2 With it he opened the eyes of those who cared to look to the powerful financial influences on our mother of Parliaments. Oborne […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] wife insisting he attend a medical appointment.33 While Bremer was quickly framing the ‘war on terror’ narrative around Osama bin Laden in a New York studio, former Israel Prime Minister Ehud Barak was doing the same from a BBC World one in London.34 His ‘the world 27 28 or 29 30 31 or 32 […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] 63 and living in Shropshire, thinks the Drummer Girl–derived plan may have originated in the mind of her mentor, the British-born Israeli spymaster David Kimche, known in Israel for secret diplomacy as ‘the man with the suitcase’.9 The Hollywood version of The Little Drummer Girl, with Diane Keaton and Klaus Kinski, was actually showing […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] lead them across the straits to restored power on the mainland. In the 1950s the so-called China Lobby enjoyed a status not unlike that enjoyed by the Israel lobby today. It is probably no accident that both KMT-ruled Formosa and Israel are substantial hubs for the whole range of offshore illicit traffic, whether drugs, […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] So I did. I make it 2,702,000, and that’s a minimum figure. And oil was at the heart of all of it – including the foundation of Israel – and the USA was responsible for much of the carnage. My hard copy of this got lost en route and the publisher emailed a digital […]