The view from the bridge

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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 […]

The Christian Right Revisited

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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 […]

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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

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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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[…] 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, […]

The Fate of Abraham: Why the West is Wrong about Islam by Peter Oborne

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[PDF file]: […] confirmed. A few years later Oborne dipped his toes into the ocean explored in The Fate of Abraham with his Dispatches programme on the work of the Israel lobby in Westminster.2 With it he opened the eyes of those who cared to look to the powerful financial influences on our mother of Parliaments. Oborne […]

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[…] and fall.13 See or . 10 11 or 12 The author’s other articles in this field are listed at . 13 Available from . 5 *new* The Israel lobby According to Lobster’s search engine, AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, was first mentioned more than 20 years ago in issue 49 by Tom […]

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[…] and fall.13 See or . 10 11 or 12 The author’s other articles in this field are listed at . 13 Available from . 5 *new* The Israel lobby According to Lobster’s search engine, AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, was first mentioned more than 20 years ago in issue 49 by Tom […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] South Atlantic flash’, the title of his essay.49 This event was loaded with complications because (a) it was the official policy of the US to deny that Israel had nuclear weapons and (b) the Israelis and South African were engaged in various military collaborations – the two pariah states were working together.50 Weiss was […]

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[…] affair I saw was by Daniel Margrain,4 4 who concluded: ‘Politically, the purpose of the misuse of antisemitism by Zionists is to quash all legitimate criticisms of Israel, its oppression of the Palestinian people and, by extension, Muslim/Arab nationalist aspirations more generally. The media attacks on Jeremy Corbyn, Ken Livingstone and others are political […]

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