[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] thus the true arcana imperii of the British state) closed to historical inquiry. A readers guide to the Balfour Declaration Because anything pertaining to the state of Israel is so obviously controversial, there is a huge body of literature, just on the Balfour Declaration alone. What follows (Section 2) deals mainly with the British […]
[…] Islam. The hardliners will do almost anything to block what they see as ‘appeasement’. Internationally, the origin of this hardline school of thought is not so much Israel (though it plays its role) but France, which has honed its anti-Islamism on Algeria and support for its Arab allies. France is still trying to preserve […]
[…] use the same methods against the Palestinians, although with considerably greater firepower. It is worth making the point here that anyone who compares the collective punishment that Israel recently inflicted on Gaza with the Holocaust, not only shows a shameful ignorance of the horrors of the Holocaust, but also misses the real colonial antecedents […]
[…] states and then leave.’ (p. 59) The same author, rather boldly goes so far as to write this: ‘as long as support to autocratic Arab regimes and Israel continues unabated, Washington’s rhetoric about freedom and democracy carries little conviction. (p. 61)……… As Iraq testifies, there is probably not enough soft power around to compensate […]
[…] royal – than that of the Windsors, as her ancestry (‘bloodline’ is the authors’ preferred terminology) could be traced back not only to the ‘Royal House of Israel’ but to Jesus himself (assuming one accepts that he was an anti-Roman Jewish rebel who married Mary Magdalene and had off-spring!). The instigators of Diana’s killing […]
[…] couple of million pounds, a planeload of weapons and perhaps five thousand lives. And twenty-five years later, it all turned to dust.’ In a later chapter on Israel Fisk writes: ‘When I first visited the West Bank scarcely nine years after the 1967 war, there was in the occupied territories an Israeli-controlled Palestinian police […]
[…] did not stick to his previous declarations and states that one of the ‘Englishmen’ had presented himself in Arabic as an Egyptian, and could have been from Israel. Peter Niggl has opened up the subject: it is certainly worth further investigation. Geheim is a well-documented and wide-ranging source of information on covert activities with […]
