[…] illustrations, was a fake. Well, there it is again, this time cited by Paddy Ashdown, on p. 412 of the second volume of his diary. Labour and Israel In Lobster 44 I noted that it had been reported in The Times that Stephen Byers MP was hoping to make a political comeback by becoming […]
[…] be believed, only learned of it when he became DCIA, after almost 30 years in the Agency. (7) The CI-IIS link served as a “mechanism for insulating Israel from multinational pressure within the CIA” – i.e. from the oil companies with interests in the Middle East – and on Angleton’s resignation “Israeli intelligence matters […]
[…] to improving the livelihood of poor farmers.’ (Guardian 14 September 2002.) Presumably by persuading them to buy GM products made by his new employer. New Labour and Israel In Lobster 43, p. 9, I referred to Tony Blair’s membership of the Labour Friends of Israel. That body was the subject of ‘Byers plots a […]
[…] bodyguard and advising on all aspects of interrogation and security techniques. In appreciation of his services, General Noriega decorated him and appointed him Panama’s honorary consul in Israel in early 1987. So influential is Harari that Eduardo Herrera, Panama’s recently dismissed ambassador in Israel, blames him for his dismissal and cashiering from the Panamanian […]
Cock-up, conspiracy, or both? Israel and the Clash of Civilisations Iraq, Iran and the Plan to Remake the Middle East Jonathan Cook London: Pluto Books, 2008, £14.99, p/b Was the invasion of Iraq a disastrous cock-up by the Americans and British, and by the Pentagon in particular? There certainly is a long line of […]
[PDF file]: Friends in high places Friends of Israel: The Backlash against Palestine Solidarity Hil Aked London and New York: Verso, £18.99 ISBN-13: 978-1-78663-765-9 John Booth My only direct experience of the Friends of Israel network was as a Labour party member. It came during the 2017 general election campaign when I tried to volunteer in […]
[PDF file]: ‘To Stand against Israel is to Stand against God’: Zionism, Trump and the US Christian Right John Newsinger On 14 May 2018, the US Embassy in Israel was formally moved to Jerusalem. This had first been called for by Congress in 1995, but with the proviso that the President could issue a waiver every […]
[PDF file]: […] Abebooks. It originally appeared in Lobster 43 and seems worth reposting in the context of the Al Jazeera revelations about Israeli operations in British politics.1 Blair and Israel Robin Ramsay In January 1994, three months before John Smith’s death, the then shadow Home Secretary Tony Blair, with wife Cherie Booth, went on a trip […]
[PDF file]: […] HNew York: O R Books, £12 War Crimes in Gaza and the Zionist Fifth Column in America James Petras Atlanta: Clear Day Books, $15 Europe’s Alliance With Israel: Aiding the occupation David Cronin London: Pluto, £17.99 Tom Easton One of the more heartening developments in this chilly political climate is the growth of Jewish […]
[…] theory on the head. I am well aware of how the ‘Zionist machine’ works and how manipulative the Israeli Embassy can be. But even Labour Friends of Israel is no AIPAC. Nearly all the Old Labour Right in the Party were pro-Israel, pro-nuclear armament, pro-EU and pro-US regardless of anyone in the LFIG or […]
