The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 91 (2025) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] Ledeen’s possible relationship with Israeli intelligence. Which is odd, really, for Israel’s interests run through his career as an interface between US state and non-state officials and Israel. Google AI gave me this when asked about Ledeen and Israeli intelligence: Michael Ledeen denied any affiliation with Israeli intelligence and resented allusions to his relationship […]

The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies by Lt. General Michael T Flynn and Michael Ledeen

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the situation, Flynn has also been accused of being too close to the Russians. Something will have to give. Either Trump is going to have to disappoint Israel and the US neocons by abandoning this hostility to Iran or the rapprochement with Russia is likely to be short-lived. Certainly serious divisions and conflicts within […]

Labour Takes Power: The Denis MacShane Diaries

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] gossip about Blair and Mandelson which he actually seems to find more interesting. (p 72) One interesting point about these diaries is how little there is regarding Israel, which is not even listed in the index. This is somewhat surprising as MacShane was a committed member of the Labour Friends of Israel cabal. There […]

Livingstone, Zionism and the Nazis

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] beat the Left, he played into the hands of those eager to inflict damage by even the most outrageous smears. With the Blairites, the Labour Friends of Israel – urged on by the Israeli Embassy, where the appalling Mark Regev1 is ambassador – and more or less the entire British media waiting for an […]

Did the Mossad steal John le Carré’s cunning plan?

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 63 and living in Shropshire, thinks the Drummer Girl–derived plan may have originated in the mind of her mentor, the British-born Israeli spymaster David Kimche, known in Israel for secret diplomacy as ‘the man with the suitcase’.9 The Hollywood version of The Little Drummer Girl, with Diane Keaton and Klaus Kinski, was actually showing […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] story about sex and satanism. Forget the Palestinians On 13 August the BBC News carried the story of the agreement between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel to normalise relations.27 There was much related talk about how good this would be for trade in the Middle East. So presumably about oil, then. Just […]

Tittle Tattle

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the whistle on Dr Fox A nything written here about the departed Defence Secretary Liam Fox, his best man and unofficial adviser Adam Werritty, Britain’s ambassador to Israel Matthew Gould and the Cabinet Secretary Gus O’Donnell is likely to be out of date very quickly. Readers needing a little background could start with Jonathan […]

The Christian Right Revisited

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] over eighty would have access to healthcare, terrorists will have attacked major cities because Obama refuses to use force, Iran will have dropped a nuclear bomb on Israel, Christian radio would be shut down’. For Focus Action and its followers, Obama was very much an ‘existential Dinesh D’Souza is something of a phenomenon in […]

View from the bridge

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[…] its newsletter has reached issue 167.3 There will be something there of interest if you are reading this. Owen Jones has an important piece about the pro- Israel bias of BBC reporting of the assault on Gaza.4 It has been followed by a detailed analysis of the BBC staffer at the centre of this, […]

Britannia Unchained, by Kwasi Kwarteng , Elizabeth Truss et al

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] than during previous recessions. Yes: oil, gas, timber, the prairies and proximity to the largest economy in the world might have had something to do with it! Israel also looms large in the authors’ vision of where Britain should be going. It is lauded for the successful hi-tech sector of its economy. Missing, as […]

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