[PDF file]: […] wife insisting he attend a medical appointment.33 While Bremer was quickly framing the ‘war on terror’ narrative around Osama bin Laden in a New York studio, former Israel Prime Minister Ehud Barak was doing the same from a BBC World one in London.34 His ‘the world 27 28 or 29 30 31 or 32 […]
[PDF file]: […] The Guardian before heading to Murdoch at The Times. Another powerful support network around Mandelson developed when new leader Tony Blair accepted the financial backing of wealthy Israel supporters organised by Michael (later Lord) Levy.9 Mandelson already knew many of those supporters having grown up in Hampstead Garden Suburb with a father who worked […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] and may have also been a CIA informant. 4 Life after Tony An article in the Jewish Chronicle of 13 January reported that the Labour Friends of Israel is going to rebrand itself ‘as a membership organisation to argue actively for the two-state solution and develop the “progressive case” for Israel.’ Its new director, […]
[PDF file]: […] documents, raw intelligence data and nontraditional sources such as tribal leaders’. And what does this intelligence paragon tell Jared Kushner? That Hezbollah was ‘an existential threat’ to Israel, and, on top of that, maintained a dangerous terrorist network ‘worldwide’. They gave Trump ‘a Reader’s Digest version of the Hezbollah briefing’ (pp. 108-110). This is […]
[PDF file]: Reporter: A Memoir Seymour M. Hersh London: Allen Lane, 2018, £20, h/b John Newsinger This is a tremendous book. Hersh is the embodiment of the journalist as public benefactor and we have never had a greater need for his skills. Towards the end of Reporter he laments that, because of developments in the Middle East, […]
[…] at 4 Page 41 Summer 2011 Lobster 61 * Life after Tony An article in the Jewish Chronicle of 13 January reported that the Labour Friends of Israel is going to rebrand itself ‘as a membership organisation to argue actively for the two-state solution and develop the “progressive case” for Israel.’ Its new director, […]
[PDF file]: […] would succeed John Smith as Labour leader. Three months before John Smith’s death in 1994, the then shadow home secretary Tony Blair went on a trip to Israel at the Israeli government’s expense. Blair was sympathetic to Israel, had shared chambers with the president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, Eldred Tabachnik,6 […]
[…] 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 […]
