[…] 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 […]
[…] reputation. The man tasked with sorting out the financial mess now that Lord Levy has followed Tony Blair into the sunset is his old Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) colleague Jon Mendelsohn. Announcing the appointment of the business lobbyist in August, Labour said Mendelsohn’s role would be to ‘improve overall organisational efficiency and to […]
[…] simmering pot of racial tension in the inner cities.'(19) He accused opponents of wanting to create a ‘Kosher NF…. weaken our opposition to the bandit state of Israel’, and to turn the ‘NF into a reactionary anti-immigration pressure group’.(20) This missive from Griffin produced a rival Organisers’ Bulletin under the auspices of Wingfield, Brons, […]
[…] thus the true arcana imperii of the British state) closed to historical inquiry. A readers guide to the Balfour Declaration Because anything pertaining to the state of Israel is so obviously controversial, there is a huge body of literature, just on the Balfour Declaration alone. What follows (Section 2) deals mainly with the British […]
[…] nationalisation by the Saudis. (p. 50) Simmons explains that King Faisal’s October 1973 oil embargo was brought on as a direct response to America’s decision to arm Israel and clears up the mistaken but commonly held belief that this embargo raised prices. The fourfold to six-fold oil price hike was, in fact, due to […]
[…] the Republican Party Carswell would be as a giant among pigmies. An undeniable upsurge of anti-Semitism in Europe and America is underway. Yet we have a right-wing Israel, an “ally” of the “West” – i.e. the Americans. Life is complicated still further by the existence of anti-Zionism, and the claims by some Jews that […]
[…] that in 1973 Prime Minister Edward Heath refused to allow the Americans to use British bases in Cyprus for intelligence gathering during the Yom Kippur war between Israel and some of its Arab neighbours; and that this resulted in a temporary halt in the US signals intelligence flow to the UK. Heath was defeated […]
[…] himself first. But there was not enough water to allow him to do this; we seemed to be proceeding across the English Channel like the children of Israel through the Red Sea. Eventually my father flopped down in a foot or two of water; we all flopped down; then he laughed; we all laughed.'(2) […]
[…] on classified investigations for US Naval Ordnance. In June 1952 he died in an explosion at his home laboratory. He was about to go and work in Israel. He claimed just before his death to have invented powerful new explosives. Given the statements elsewhere about Parsons’ liking for drugs and preference for working at […]
