Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
[…] to Jewish summer camps…..’ ‘In every war the Israelis have fought US and British intelligence have given all Israel’s secrets to the Arabs….. the guy who saved Israel in the ’73 war was the White House Chief of Staff, Alexander Haig….’ ‘BCCI – the joke is that it stands for British Cover for Collecting […]
Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££
[…] Protocols of the Elders of Zion are being adhered to word by word, by the Jewish influenced Western Governments.” Taking Sides: America’s Secret Relations With A Militant Israel 1948-68 Stephen Green, Faber and Faber, London 1984 In which author Green gets access to US archives and pulls out some plums … In other words […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] has nothing to do with the actions of the British, American or Israeli states. As you can imagine, this requires some intricate footwork. Inter alia she writes: ‘Israel and parts of the West Bank were the ancient Jewish national home before this land was conquered by Arabs…..the fight against Israel is not funda-mentally about […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] at putting the documents in historical context. Stephen Green, when writing the revealing book, Taking Sides, gained access to various US government documents concerning its relations with Israel during the period 1948-1967 and used them to reinterpret Israel’s history with the US. With The American Papers, all we are provided with are edited documents […]
Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££
[…] can win editor Benjamin Netanyahu (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London 1986) This is a collection of papers read at the 1984 Jonathan Institute conference on terrorism held in Israel, and because these were originally papers there is no documentation: what we have is 230 pages of assertions. The contributors range from current “experts” on terrorism […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
Srebrenica In Lobster 46 I noted that the publisher of Cees Wiebes’ Intelligence and the War in Bosnia 1992-1995 had declined to supply a review copy. Mr Wiebes subsequently informed me that the full report on Srebrenica, commissioned by the Dutch government, including the material which made up his book, is on-line, in English, at […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] to withdraw that support. If Nick Cohen is a sell-out then so am I. When Peter Hitchens accuses the SWP of anti-Semitism, questions the absurd idea that Israel is responsible for all of the problems of the Middle East and slams the Left for defining Hizbullah as freedom fighters, he is right. At its […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] Morris London: I. B Tauris, 2002, £24.50, h/b In report after report on the major media we hear about or see pictures of ‘refugee camps’ in Israel – and no-one ever explains from where the refugees came. Perhaps editors think we know already. Benny Morris is an Israeli historian who became well known […]
