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... that their country's true role has been to pay Israel an awful lot of money for a very long time to delay something first recommended by the Peel Commission in 1937. And as for Britain? Very little mention is made of the UK having any role of influence on either US or Israeli-US policy. The authors positively discount Tony Blair playing any significant part one way or the other in either Middle East events or the Iraqi war. They do state, though, that Israel gets access on a much larger and better basis to US military equipment and intelligence than the UK. The reader may also consider that the comments of President Kennedy in December 1962 – that Israel ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 01 Jun 2009 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue57/lob57-09.htm
... setting the events they describe in any international context. Their story, after all, is posited on the SDP was 'fated to fail' thesis: that given the squabbling incompetence of the Gang of Four, the strength of the traditional two-party system and the subsequent changes in the Labour Party under Neil Kinnock, John Smith and Tony Blair, the 'mould breakers' were doomed from the outset. Yet while all these domestic factors may have some merit we cannot ignore the strategic context in which the SDP was created and briefly flourished, the one alluded to by Walden and not considered by Crewe and King. Trilateralism Walden was not the only contributor to the Britain on the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 01 Jun 1996 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue31/lob31-04.htm
... that the New Labour administration more or less threw Britain's doors open to mass immigration and then stood back and watched.97 This is true, but again the purpose was not to breed 'whiteness' out of Britain, or even to undermine British culture. The purpose that Mr Neather inferred, from the discussions he attended, was that the Blair administration wanted to 'rub the right's nose in diversity'. Of course, it could be possible that Mr Neather was himself being deceived about the government's real agenda, and they were just pretending to be idealistic 95 Coudenhove-Kalergi worked with the CIA's Allen Dulles in the creation of the American Committee for a Free and United Europe in ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 24 May 2016 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster71/lob71-holding-pattern.pdf
... of State Condoleezza Rice] is lying, there simply is no truth in the claims that the United Kingdom has been involved in rendition full stop. ' 36 Fast forward to 2018, and the UK Government has now apologised to Abdul Hakim Belhaj for his being handed over to be tortured by the Libyan government during the brief rapprochement between the Blair government and Colonel Gaddafi. Straw's claim from 2005 is, therefore, comprehensively proven to have been false. So what did Straw know and when did he know it? In 2011 the story surfaced and:'. . . Mr Straw appeared to deny any knowledge of the operation, saying: "The position of successive foreign secretaries ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 25 Aug 2018 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster76/lob76-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
... arrest following Tony Blair's "deal in the desert" '? (Daily Mail 11 September 2011). See <http://tinyurl.com/646bl8j> or <http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article- 2036049/Libyan-dissidents-house-arrest-following-Tony-Blairs-deal-desert.html> 139 Discussed in Mark Curtis' Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam (London: Serpent's Tail, 2010). On LIFG see <http://tinyurl.com/ydza5ebo> or <https:// wikispooks.com/wiki/ Document:Manchester_Alleged_Suicide ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 4 - 17 Dec 2017 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster74/lob74-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
