The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] via Tony Frewin, pointed me at a collection of conversations with former US diplomats.60 This is in an interview with Carl Dillery, Political/Military Officer, at the U.S. embassy in London, 1973-1976. ‘DILLERY: Take an important case. Thatcher’s current head of loyal opposition, Neil Kinnock, was a junior MP when I was there. Our Labor […]

Armed and Dangerous: the corporate origins of war with Iran

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] terrorist organisation called the Mujehadin-e Khalq (MEK). Previously financed by Saddam Hussein (and previously described as a terrorist group in Washington) these architects of the 1980 Iranian Embassy siege in London are now financed and backed by the US and Gulf Arab States.15 It is also likely that the MEK are getting logistical support […]

Friends of Israel

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[PDF file]: […] ‘these groups’ non-transparent and unaccountable modus operandi and the intermittent scandals which occasionally illuminate their activities, as well the close informal working relationships cultivated by the Israeli embassy’. (p. 13)6 Aked styles the Zionist movement as a ‘social movement from above’ and contrasts its ‘astroturfing’ character with the Palestinian liberation struggle, BDS campaign and […]

The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation that Shocked the World by Ben Macintyre

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[PDF file]: […] Rusty Firmin, was published more than ten years ago and – one suspects with good reason – is described as ‘The definitive inside story of the Iranian Embassy Siege’.1 If you’ll pardon the pun, the subject has truly been done to death. How, then, can The Siege add anything? Well it can’t, really, can […]

NIck on Macintyre

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[…] Rusty Firmin, was published more than ten years ago and – one suspects with good reason – is described as ‘The definitive inside story of the Iranian Embassy Siege’.1 If you’ll pardon the pun, the subject has truly been done to death. How, then, can The Siege add anything? Well it can’t, really, can […]

Friends of Israel Booth PDF

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[…] ‘these groups’ non-transparent and unaccountable modus operandi and the intermittent scandals which occasionally illuminate their activities, as well the close informal working relationships cultivated by the Israeli embassy’. (p. 13)6 Aked styles the Zionist movement as a ‘social movement from above’ and contrasts its ‘astroturfing’ character with the Palestinian liberation struggle, BDS campaign and […]

NIck on Macintyre

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[…] Rusty Firmin, was published more than ten years ago and – one suspects with good reason – is described as ‘The definitive inside story of the Iranian Embassy Siege’.1 If you’ll pardon the pun, the subject has truly been done to death. How, then, can The Siege add anything? Well it can’t, really, can […]

Friends of Israel Booth pdf

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[…] ‘these groups’ non-transparent and unaccountable modus operandi and the intermittent scandals which occasionally illuminate their activities, as well the close informal working relationships cultivated by the Israeli embassy’. (p. 13)6 Aked styles the Zionist movement as a ‘social movement from above’ and contrasts its ‘astroturfing’ character with the Palestinian liberation struggle, BDS campaign and […]

In The Thick of It: The Private Diaries of a Minister by Alan Duncan

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] by Prime Minister May, his assumption was that it was for his Middle East expertise. As far as the Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI) and the Israeli Embassy were concerned, however, his support for a Palestinian state made him completely unacceptable and it soon became clear that he was to have no involvement with […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Brown as an economically illiterate careerist who became leader of the Labour Party by sounding like a leftie to its members while cuddling up to the American embassy and international bankers.5 1 As for his economic record as Chancellor of the Exchequer, Robert Henderson clearly lays out some of the dismal details.5 2 49 […]

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