[…] . . had little to do with fear of WMDs – or other purported goals, such as a desire to “spread democracy” or satisfy the oil or Israel lobbies. Rather, the Bush administration invaded Iraq for its demonstration effect.’ He quotes Bush Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld saying on the evening of 9/11, ‘We need […]
[…] . . had little to do with fear of WMDs – or other purported goals, such as a desire to “spread democracy” or satisfy the oil or Israel lobbies. Rather, the Bush administration invaded Iraq for its demonstration effect.’ He quotes Bush Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld saying on the evening of 9/11, ‘We need […]
[…] in the Democratic Republic of Congo or Mali or Ethiopia does not seem to energise our campuses. But he also offered this in his conclusions: And yet Israel succeeds. Why? Because of its values. A belief in courage, enterprise and endeavour. A belief in the worth of every individual’s soul. A robust democracy. A […]
[…] . . had little to do with fear of WMDs – or other purported goals, such as a desire to “spread democracy” or satisfy the oil or Israel lobbies. Rather, the Bush administration invaded Iraq for its demonstration effect.’ He quotes Bush Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld saying on the evening of 9/11, ‘We need […]
[PDF file]: […] elements ” says one of Netanyahu’s key advisors from the time, without adducing a whit of evidence. The Citizen Lab reports did prompt a legal petition in Israel to forbid the sales of Pegasus to governments that regularly violated human rights, but the petition was waved away. The Supreme Court in Israel refused to […]
[…] After the Hamas attack, the best thing I read in the first couple of days was Jon Schwarz, ‘Yes, This Is Israel’s 9/11. Both the U.S. and Israel were stunned to experience the ultraviolence they mete out to others.’ 6 Schwarz included this sentence: ‘”Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel’s creation,” according to […]
[…] After the Hamas attack, the best thing I read in the first couple of days was Jon Schwarz, ‘Yes, This Is Israel’s 9/11. Both the U.S. and Israel were stunned to experience the ultraviolence they mete out to others.’ 6 Schwarz included this sentence: ‘”Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel’s creation,” according to […]
[PDF file]: […] in New York, continues to be protective of US security interests. In a Guardian article in 2012, he described NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden as ‘narcissistic’. Friends of Israel M edia Society joint host James Harding was soon joined in the upper reaches of the BBC as ‘director of strategy and digital’ by former Labour […]
[…] After the Hamas attack, the best thing I read in the first couple of days was Jon Schwarz, ‘Yes, This Is Israel’s 9/11. Both the U.S. and Israel were stunned to experience the ultraviolence they mete out to others.’ 7 Schwarz included this sentence: ‘”Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel’s creation,” according to […]
[PDF file]: […] Minister after Churchill quit in April 1955, Eden, having tried novel diplomatic approaches in Europe and the Far East, made a speech on 9 November saying that Israel should give up some of the territory it had occupied since 1949. Without listing here all the tit-for-tat operations on either side, since its creation Israel […]
