[…] ‘even-handed’ approach taken by Henry Kissinger and Nixon during the 1973 Israeli war with the Arabs, the Israeli lobby set about remaking US foreign policy to protect Israel. This involved first recreating the Soviet Union as the big bad wolf (Cold War 2). As Curtis showed, this entailed the wholesale fabrication of a renewed […]
[…] in Southern Iraq, I was informed. Heavy casualties resulted. The operation, directed by the Central Intelligence Agency, was a counter-strike, following an Iraqi Scud that fell on Israel. The missile had contained Sarin. Fuming, the Israelis had prepared to detonate a nuclear warhead high above Baghdad. Only the swift intervention of President George Bush […]
[…] He didn’t manage to match Sikorski’s rise to the top job, but his influence remains considerable (Lobsters passim) through his work on behalf of Labour Friends of Israel and friendship with newly appointed Independent editor Roger Alton. McShane’s partner is Joan Smith, a columnist on Tribune and The Independent on Sunday. Friends of ‘the […]
[…] David C. Martin’s 1980 Wilderness of Mirrors. This may not have been the real reason for his ouster. Angleton was also the liaison between the CIA and Israel and during the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, Nixon and Kissinger tried to ‘tilt’ American foreign policy away from its unconditional support for Israel. To do so in […]
[…] Convention and US and multilateral export controls in addressing the proliferation of biological weapons. Findings include 1) many critical countries are not members of the BWC, (including Israel, Syria and Egypt; but Iraq is a member) and 2) compliance measures are ineffective, with more countries developing BW today than when the Convention was created […]
[…] he was recalled to Moscow, although Mandy Rice-Davies (who is not reliable) recounts a different tale. In 1977 two men interviewed her about the Profumo Affair in Israel, where she lived for a time. At first they claimed to be journalists from Time magazine; then private investigators. Eventually one of them said “I was […]
[…] caught in a rabbit-hole/on trial; or, whenever it happens, a captured Osama Bin Laden. Like The Passion, they fit snugly beneath the Middle East’s ‘arch’ – America/Britain/ Israel – a.k.a. ‘The Great Satan’. They are nourished by memories of the ancient loveliness of Palestine’s bulldozed olive groves, along with the villagers and villages they […]
[…] issues.’ pp. 550/1 So-called triangulation, learned from the Democrats. 2002 ‘Murdoch was coming in for dinner….Murdoch was at one point putting the traditional very right-wing view on Israel and the Middle East peace process……Murdoch said he didn’t see what the Palestinians’ problem was….’ p. 603 The world’s largest owner of media doesn’t know what […]
[…] maintaining the existence of a ‘fascist threat’ has been the Israeli lobby. Crudely, a post-war fascist threat in Europe helped legitimize the existence of the state of Israel. Both strands come together in Searchlight. Publisher Gerry Gable was a CPGB member, and Searchlight‘s ‘European Correspondent’, Graeme Atkinson, worked for the party’s paper, the Morning […]
[…] Kenya (1952-1956 by General Sir Frank Kitson) and Cyprus (1955-1959). Looked at in a cold historical and political context the Zionist founders of the modern state of Israel come across very badly; while the EOKA group appear to be dismal irredentists basking in the kind of exaggerated nationalism recently seen with lethal consequences across […]
