The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] Mind you, some of the testimony the Post quotes is gobsmacking in the incompetence and venality it reports. The lobby The climax of the campaign by the Israel lobby against Jeremy Corbyn and his faction within the Labour Party was the report in the week before the general election – splashed across all the […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] 6 or 7 million pounds from the British Jewish community for then Leader of the Labour Party Tony Blair.76 And thus the operation against Labour by the Israel lobby is complete: it now has an Israel-supporting leader, dissenting Jews are being expelled, and it will soon be dependent on Jewish money. Or is that […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Corbyn and anti-semitism,44 he discusses some of the internal politicking on the issue of those around Corbyn. Inter alia he writes: In short, giving in to the Israel lobby was seen as a price worth paying, given that those who bore the brunt of the witchhunt were Palestinian and Muslim members. They were apparently […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] Corbyn and anti-semitism,44 he discusses some of the internal politicking on the issue of those around Corbyn. Inter alia he writes: In short, giving in to the Israel lobby was seen as a price worth paying, given that those who bore the brunt of the witchhunt were Palestinian and Muslim members. They were apparently […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] focused on Jeremy Corbyn claims that his defeat was not the result of millions of former Labour voters walking away, but a conspiracy authored by the ” Israel lobby” – the kind of antisemitic cliché that finds an echo at the other end of the political spectrum.38 This is seriously misleading – and spectacularly […]

The Mossad Spy It’s not what you’ve done it’s who you are… the transgender spy

Lobster Issue

[…] concealing the fact that she felt she was a woman might have given her the deception skills to be an intelligence officer. At 18 she joined the Israel Defence Force (IDF) as a woman, in preparation for entering Mossad. There are vivid accounts of military engagements and a couple of her operations penetrating anti-Israel […]

Angles Morts

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] covert sale of arms to Saddam Hussein under Margaret Thatcher and by utter despair at the aggressive foreign policy of Ariel Sharon and the Likud regime in Israel. Sharon’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon killed her lover. The Sunday Times and two other Fleet Street newspapers turned down the story of a transgender Mossad spy […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] for a lawyer’, Chakrabarti refused to define antiSemitism and avoided the distinction between justified criticism of the Israeli government’s policies and the conflation of Jews, Zionists and Israel. Chakrabarti lays out her clear reasons for not defining anti-Semitism on p.7 of her report. On page 12 of the report, contrary to Bower’s account, Chakrabarti […]

Spookaroonie!

Lobster Issue

Contents Lobster 58 Spookaroonie! Inside British Intelligence 100 years of MI5 and MI6 Gordon Thomas London: JR books, 2009, £20 Page 132 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 Spooks The Unofficial History of MI5 Thomas Hennessy and Claire Thomas Stroud (Glos.): Amberley, 2009, £30 I haven’t properly read either of these books and cannot really review them. […]

AFRICOM, NATO and the EU

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[PDF file]: […] several points: the Gulf of Aden (Yemen and Somalia), the Red Sea (Saudi Arabia, Djibouti, Eritrea, Sudan, Egypt), the Suez Canal (Egypt), and across the Mediterranean ( Israel, Palestine (Gaza), Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Greece, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco). In addition, a network of pipelines links North Africa with Europe. Many US companies operate in […]

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