[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
Advertising In 1960s Iraq, the children of the poor carried their most treasured possessions to school in much coveted, branded soap-powder packets. When these eventually disintegrated, what remained was stuck up on the classroom wall. As a result, children could pick out the words ‘Tide’ or ‘Omo’. Praised by their teacher for doing so, a […]
[…] Washington bigwigs, the leaders of a group of former Soviet bloc satellites trying to curry favour with America, Vaclav Havel of the Czech Republic, Natan Sharansky of Israel and Carl Bildt, the prime minister of Sweden, the committee was closed down in 2003 because its human rights rationale for the war had been abandoned […]
[…] training and advice, intelligence from NSA etc. etc. Pipes continues, stuffing his other foot into his mouth. On the one hand: ‘Much of the region’s anti-Western, anti- Israel, anti-democratic, anti-moderate and anti-modern behavior results from fears of clandestine forces….’ On the other hand: ‘Western leaders have to act with special propriety to shed a […]
[…] in practice, there was Searchlight and Labour Research. Pursuing its aim of amplifying the fascist ‘threat’ to bolster support for and the legitimacy of, the state of Israel, Searchlight was then pushing the idea that the Tories had been infiltrated by a barely disguised group of semi-fascists. This climaxed with the ‘Maggie’s Militants’ edition […]
[…] a difficult year for Brandt. During the Yom Kippur war, after an outcry in the German press, the Federal Republic refused to allow arms to travel to Israel from United States bases in Germany. Brandt explained that “we expressly protested against the use of our territory without notification, let alone consultation, as if NATO […]
[…] for the Study of Terrorism (Wilkinson). Non-UK groups include the Centre for Conflict Studies and Mackenzie Institute in Canada (Charters/Tugwell), the Jonathan Institute and Jaffee Centre in Israel; and in America, the Georgetown CSIS, Heritage Foundation, American Security Council (Singlaub/Stilwell), the International Security Council (Moonies), the Nathan Hale Institute and Rand Corporation. It also […]
