[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]: […] 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]: […] 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 […]
[…] 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, […]
[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 […]
[…] 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, […]
[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, […]
