[…] caught in a rabbit-hole/on trial; or, whenever it happens, a captured Osama Bin Laden. Like The Passion, they fit snugly beneath the Middle East’s ‘arch’ – America/Britain/ Israel – a.k.a. ‘The Great Satan’. They are nourished by memories of the ancient loveliness of Palestine’s bulldozed olive groves, along with the villagers and villages they […]
[…] he was recalled to Moscow, although Mandy Rice-Davies (who is not reliable) recounts a different tale. In 1977 two men interviewed her about the Profumo Affair in Israel, where she lived for a time. At first they claimed to be journalists from Time magazine; then private investigators. Eventually one of them said “I was […]
[…] issues.’ pp. 550/1 So-called triangulation, learned from the Democrats. 2002 ‘Murdoch was coming in for dinner….Murdoch was at one point putting the traditional very right-wing view on Israel and the Middle East peace process……Murdoch said he didn’t see what the Palestinians’ problem was….’ p. 603 The world’s largest owner of media doesn’t know what […]
[…] maintaining the existence of a ‘fascist threat’ has been the Israeli lobby. Crudely, a post-war fascist threat in Europe helped legitimize the existence of the state of Israel. Both strands come together in Searchlight. Publisher Gerry Gable was a CPGB member, and Searchlight‘s ‘European Correspondent’, Graeme Atkinson, worked for the party’s paper, the Morning […]
[…] Kenya (1952-1956 by General Sir Frank Kitson) and Cyprus (1955-1959). Looked at in a cold historical and political context the Zionist founders of the modern state of Israel come across very badly; while the EOKA group appear to be dismal irredentists basking in the kind of exaggerated nationalism recently seen with lethal consequences across […]
[…] that IRD ‘put an office at disposal.’ He also boasts of ‘dealings with the secret services of many other countries including France, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Israel, Morocco, Iran, Argentina, Chile and Taiwan.’ As early as p. 20 it is hard to avoid concluding that Crozier is describing how he was recruited by […]
[…] Catholic and former Marine, headed OMNI, which published books denouncing Vatican II (such as The Plot Against the Church) and tracts such as a pamphlet denouncing British Israel. Chesterton raised funds in England to finance OMNI’s edition of NUL after it became clear that it would be cheaper to reprint the book than to […]
[…] analysis of the run-up to the invasion of Iraq which he shows was ‘driven by an alliance of….the military-industrial complex and the hard-line Zionists proponents of “greater Israel” in the “promised land”.’ This is a fine mixture of analysis and detailed research, as well as being an entertaining read. Notes It would be more […]
[…] the exercise had been to capture a deer, the Israeli pointed at the rabbit and said, ‘The rabbit confessed. He is a deer.’ Taken from Triple Cross: Israel, the Atomic Bomb and the man who leaked the story, Louis Toscano (Robert Hale, London 1991) p. 231. Other spook jokes would be welcomed. Public Records […]
[…] being at the heart of British foreign policy. A Muslim, critical of many things done in its name, she has routinely challenged the silencing of criticism of Israel in the name of anti-Semitism. Alibhai-Brown voices the slow but important politicisation of Britain’s 1.8 million Muslims, long seen as solid supporters of Labour. Blair’s recent […]
