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... invasion of Iraq which was strongly backed by Mandelson and MacShane. When Alastair met Lance A Cambridge man himself, but grateful for their Iraq war support, was Alastair Campbell, who left his No 10 duties for Tony Blair and New Labour in 2003. One of his early freelance engagements – his first was to speak at a Friends of Israel gathering organised by Lord Levy – was to interview big sporting celebrities for Rupert Murdoch's Times. One of his most impressive interviewees, he told us on his blog later, was the 'open, funny and engaging' American cyclist Lance Armstrong. Campbell's glowing account of the man who had fought his way back to Tour of France success from ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 28 Jan 2013 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster65/lob65-tittle-tattle.pdf
... Contents Israel, the lobby and its critics If I Am Not For Myself: Journey of an Anti-Zionist Jew Mike Marqusee London and Brooklyn: Verso, £9.99 (UK) 137 Winter 2010 'This Time We Went Too Far': Truth and Consequences of the Gaza Invasion Norman G. Finkelstein New 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 groups and individuals speaking out and organising against ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 219 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster60/lob60-137.pdf
... . Here's Melanie Phillips: 'With a few honourable exceptions, the BBC views every issue through the prism of left-wing, secular, anti- western thinking. It is the Guardian of the air. It has a knee-jerk antipathy to America, the free market, big 148 Winter 2010 business, religion, British institutions, the Conservative party and Israel; it supports the human rights culture, the Palestinians, Irish republicanism, European integration, multiculturalism and a liberal attitude towards drugs and a host of social issues.’ A bit of this is true: the BBC certainly supports the human rights culture and multiculturalism. But how could it not do so? These are the official policies at both ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster60/lob60-148.pdf
... have voted Lib Dem in a marginal constituency in the 2005 election was, in fact, the Labour leader on a local council miles away making a bit of cash-in-hand, focus group money. He told me afterwards, contrary to his expressed views on the Iraq war at the group, that he'd met Tony Blair at a Labour Friends of Israel bash and wouldn't have a word said against him. But setting my experience aside, I find Mattinson's reasoning – 'how New Labour stopped listening to the voter' – weak, and her prescriptions for a 'new politics' unconvincing. Like many New Labour leading lights she dismisses the catastrophic collapse of the Tories under John Major. And what ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster60/lob60-140.pdf
... of the most racist countries in the world. At the far end of Europe a trio of countries – the 21st century versions of the one-time Hindu and Islamic empires of India, Persia and the Ottomans – demand recognition equal to their huge populations and status. How does the Foreign Office grab a share of the consumer markets without offending both Israel and the royal princes of Arabia? Besides which, their re-emergence was never one it envisaged – Turkey with its years of understanding of Russia, the Balkans and the Levant as well as of its southern neighbours; Persia, now in control of Iraq, and with substantial knowledge of Russia and the 'Stans'. 1 6 As for ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster60/lob60-120.pdf
... 3 <www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-terrorism-scare- synagogues-20101029,0 ,3874846.story> 4 Winter 2010 always need money for 'vigilance'. 4 Then add in the fact that Reid is a consultant to G4S (formerly Group 4 Securicor), the world's largest security company with a big interest in 'homeland security', airport handling and in Israel. (Lord Reid, as well as being a leading advocate of the Iraq invasion and toughness in the 'war on terror', is a longstanding member of Labour Friends of Israel.) Then turn to The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein and read this about Israel's economic trajectory in the past five years: 'Much of this growth was ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 78 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster60/lob60-004.pdf
... Winter 2010 major recession since Mrs Thatcher's election in 1979 and it was likely that the Tories would lose the next general election. There had already been speculation in the media that Tony Blair would succeed John Smith as Labour leader. Three months before John Smith's death in 1994, the then shadow home secretary Tony Blair went on a trip to Israel at the Israeli government's expense. Blair was sympathetic to Israel, had shared chambers with the president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, Eldred Tabachnik,6 4 and had joined the Labour Friends of Israel on becoming an MP. On Blair's return from Israel, Gideon Meir, from the Israeli embassy in London, introduced him ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 20 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster60/lob60-062.pdf
... a bitchy queen, a depressive fawner upon powerful men, a couple of messianics, a coterie of ex-Communist Party opportunists, a few jaded, modist "thinkers" and a young Praetorian guard of ambitious student politicians and assorted money-grubbing lobbyists. A bit more complicated than this? Well chuck in devotion to the City, US foreign policy and Israel and there's little more to say.’ Which is essentially true; but I like the details. I haven't read the Blair/Mandelson/Jonathan Powell versions of NuLab yet but I did read – I confess I bought – Alastair Campbell's diary of the 1994-97 period, looking for clues as to the creation of the NuLab 'project'. There ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 6 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster60/lob60-105.pdf
... by the loss of Dunfermline and West Fife, the constituency that directly adjoined Brown's seat, in a bye-election in February 2006. In a display of unprecedented disfunctionality, Brown ascended to the position of Labour Party leader and prime minister without the inconvenience of a contest for either 17 The easy choice was to go with the US on Iraq and Israel – particularly if you want a subsequent life on the US lecture circuit. 18 Between 2001 and 2005 Blair considered and rejected setting up a separate Ministry of Finance. This would have reduced the Treasury's role significantly and would have Brown left with little power. It sounds similar to the arrangements put in place by Harold Wilson and George Brown ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster60/lob60-032.pdf
... Crisis and Recovery: Ethics, economics and justice Mike Marqusee: If I Am Not For Myself: Journey of an Anti-Zionist Jew Norman G. Finkelstein: 'This Time We Went Too Far': Truth and Consequences of the Gaza Invasion James Petras: War Crimes in Gaza and the Zionist Fifth Column in America David Cronin: Europe's Alliance With Israel: Aiding the occupation Deborah Mattinson: Talking to a Brick Wall: How New Labour stopped listening to the voter and why we need a new politics Arthur Butler: People, Politics and Pressure Groups: Memoirs of a lobbyist K. D. Ewing: Bonfire of the Liberties: New Labour, Human Rights and the Rule of Law ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster60/lob60-001.pdf
