Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)
[…] ‘identify every possible motive, and every possible perpetrator……and seek to eliminate each possibility one by one.’(27) He tests all the possible suspects he can think of, including Israel, South Africa, and Russia – and then moves on to the US, noting that in 2001 President Bush overturned America’s 25-year ban on state assassinations, giving […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)
[…] contact Defend the Kurds in Britain and Europe Campaign, 0171 250 1315. Funny, flexible old thing, the concept of ‘Europe’. In the Eurovision Song Contest, ‘Europe’ includes Israel; and NATO member Turkey is apparently going to join the European Union. Chipping away Chip Berlet is a sort of American Gerry Gable: while formally monitoring […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)
[…] oil supplies; to allow the US to evacuate its troops from Saudi Arabia, thereby removing a point of anti-American rage; to destroy an important regional threat to Israel; to make sure that Saddam could not acquire the capacity for nuclear blackmail after, France, Germany and other countries dismantled the UN embargo; to express America’s […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)
[…] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003)
[…] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)
[…] 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 […]