[…] He didn’t manage to match Sikorski’s rise to the top job, but his influence remains considerable (Lobsters passim) through his work on behalf of Labour Friends of Israel and friendship with newly appointed Independent editor Roger Alton. McShane’s partner is Joan Smith, a columnist on Tribune and The Independent on Sunday. Friends of ‘the […]
[…] David C. Martin’s 1980 Wilderness of Mirrors. This may not have been the real reason for his ouster. Angleton was also the liaison between the CIA and Israel and during the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, Nixon and Kissinger tried to ‘tilt’ American foreign policy away from its unconditional support for Israel. To do so in […]
[…] simmering pot of racial tension in the inner cities.'(19) He accused opponents of wanting to create a ‘Kosher NF…. weaken our opposition to the bandit state of Israel’, and to turn the ‘NF into a reactionary anti-immigration pressure group’.(20) This missive from Griffin produced a rival Organisers’ Bulletin under the auspices of Wingfield, Brons, […]
[…] reputation. The man tasked with sorting out the financial mess now that Lord Levy has followed Tony Blair into the sunset is his old Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) colleague Jon Mendelsohn. Announcing the appointment of the business lobbyist in August, Labour said Mendelsohn’s role would be to ‘improve overall organisational efficiency and to […]
[…] the exercise had been to capture a deer, the Israeli pointed at the rabbit and said, ‘The rabbit confessed. He is a deer.’ Taken from Triple Cross: Israel, the Atomic Bomb and the man who leaked the story, Louis Toscano (Robert Hale, London 1991) p. 231. Other spook jokes would be welcomed. Public Records […]
[…] being at the heart of British foreign policy. A Muslim, critical of many things done in its name, she has routinely challenged the silencing of criticism of Israel in the name of anti-Semitism. Alibhai-Brown voices the slow but important politicisation of Britain’s 1.8 million Muslims, long seen as solid supporters of Labour. Blair’s recent […]
[…] analysis of the run-up to the invasion of Iraq which he shows was ‘driven by an alliance of….the military-industrial complex and the hard-line Zionists proponents of “greater Israel” in the “promised land”.’ This is a fine mixture of analysis and detailed research, as well as being an entertaining read. Notes It would be more […]
[…] training and advice, intelligence from NSA etc. etc. Pipes continues, stuffing his other foot into his mouth. On the one hand: ‘Much of the region’s anti-Western, anti- Israel, anti-democratic, anti-moderate and anti-modern behavior results from fears of clandestine forces….’ On the other hand: ‘Western leaders have to act with special propriety to shed a […]
Advertising In 1960s Iraq, the children of the poor carried their most treasured possessions to school in much coveted, branded soap-powder packets. When these eventually disintegrated, what remained was stuck up on the classroom wall. As a result, children could pick out the words ‘Tide’ or ‘Omo’. Praised by their teacher for doing so, a […]
[…] Washington bigwigs, the leaders of a group of former Soviet bloc satellites trying to curry favour with America, Vaclav Havel of the Czech Republic, Natan Sharansky of Israel and Carl Bildt, the prime minister of Sweden, the committee was closed down in 2003 because its human rights rationale for the war had been abandoned […]
