Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
[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 […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
[PDF file]: […] lead them across the straits to restored power on the mainland. In the 1950s the so-called China Lobby enjoyed a status not unlike that enjoyed by the Israel lobby today. It is probably no accident that both KMT-ruled Formosa and Israel are substantial hubs for the whole range of offshore illicit traffic, whether drugs, […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
[PDF file]: […] So I did. I make it 2,702,000, and that’s a minimum figure. And oil was at the heart of all of it – including the foundation of Israel – and the USA was responsible for much of the carnage. My hard copy of this got lost en route and the publisher emailed a digital […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
[PDF file]: […] the US, the UK or France, the most likely providers of this hardware. The considered view is that South African acquired its nuclear weapons by collaborating with Israel, culminating in a nuclear test near Prince Edward Island, in the southern Indian Ocean, in September 1979.14 President Carter noted in his diary in February 1980: […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
[PDF file]: […] the affair I saw was by Daniel Margrain, 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 […]