Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
[PDF file]: […] did not like foreigners’. By contrast, Eden was ‘an Arabic speaker with a deep knowledge of Middle Eastern history and politics, and had a long association with Egypt’. So Harold Wilson grovelled in front of American President Lyndon Johnson at every opportunity? As Washington huffed and puffed over ‘East of Suez’, insisting Britain ought […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
[PDF file]: […] the decade. In the medium and longer term the UK economy does not experience the ‘stop-go’ features that characterised the ‘50s and ‘60s. Suez (1956) A fter Egypt nationalises the Suez Canal, Britain and France attack Egypt, with the aim of re-establishing a Suez Canal Zone (that they will control), taking the canal back […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
[PDF file]: […] Laden, backed by elements within the Saudi government, did 9/11 and the buildings were demolished by persons unknown for reasons unknown. Denial is not a river in Egypt You may be all ‘Trumped–out’, tired of endless demonstrations of the obvious: the man is an obnoxious dummy.59 I’ve been keeping only half an eye on […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
[PDF file]: […] commander in the Middle East, was a family friend – to secure a transfer to 52 Commando, going on to serve in Abyssinia. The unit returned to Egypt where they were tasked with guarding the docks in Alexandria and regularly came into conflict with offduty Australian soldiers. Smiley, in his biographer’s words, ‘condoned’ the […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
[PDF file]: […] diplomatic belligerence and all. I had time to pause and reflect on what surrounds Israel. Our friends the Wahhabi? Or perhaps that old friend of the west, Egypt, with its lately installed dictator? Or the crumbling waywardness of countries previously treated as vassal oil reservoirs with little or no legitimate government – and, more […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
[PDF file]: […] Mohammed Abdullah Hassan (known as the ‘Mad Mullah’ by the British) in Somalia was considered a great success. The British made use of aerial bombardment in Iraq, Egypt, Russia and the Sudan, and even considered making use of it against any revolutionary outbreaks in Britain itself. It was not just deployed against insurgents, but […]