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Items by Asa Winstanley
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Front companies and Israel's global terrorist network
A common tactic for intelligence agencies is the use of front companies. In books about Israeli spy agencies, the tactic is a frequent reappearance. Former Mossad officer Victor Ostrovsky’s book “By Way of Deception” gives details of some of the ways Israel’s notorious overseas spying and assassination agency operates. He...
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How Israel has aided America’s neo-colonialism in Africa
One of the perennial debates about the nature of the pro-Israel lobby in western countries such as the US and Britain is the degree of influence that it wields over foreign policy. This is often summed up as the question of whether the Israeli tail is actually wagging the...
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Israel’s murder of a Palestinian academic should be condemned unequivocally
Assassins from an Israeli spy agency gunned down a Palestinian academic from the University of Kuala Lumpur in cold blood on the streets of Malaysia last weekend, according to the murdered man’s family. The father of Fadi Al-Batsh told the media that he was convinced the Mossad was behind...
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It’s time to admit that Israel is an apartheid state
One of the facts about Israel that is often disputed is its status as an apartheid state. There are, obviously, some differences between the Israeli regime occupying Palestine and the former white supremacist regime in South Africa. On that basis, apologists for Israel reject the “label” of apartheid. Worse...
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The Palestinians have started their Great March of Return
As I write this, Palestinians in Gaza have begun what one of their leaders has called a major new phase towards the liberation of Palestine and the return of their refugees. A series of marches is taking place, each heading towards the illegal occupation fence which Israel maintains around...
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Cut the bluster; the West also endorses political assassinations
We do not know for sure who carried out the chemical weapon attack in the small English city of Salisbury last week. Although it is said that Russia was behind it, this claim must be treated with caution. Indeed, while many politicians have been lining up to condemn Russia, they...
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Israel's online incitement of violence against the Palestinians
A major Israeli propaganda talking point is the concept of “Palestinian incitement”. The idea behind it is that Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation is so self-defeating, so irrational, that it can only be the work of outside agitators. The Official Enemy of the past, supposedly responsible for such “incitement”, was...
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The Kingdom of corruption
Crown prince and defence minister of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman was in the UK last week for meetings with Prime Minister Theresa May. The visit was intended to “usher in a new era in bilateral relations,” according to a government statement. Bin Salman is the first in line to...
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How the CIA recruited Nazi war criminals
The Central Intelligence Agency portrays itself as a protector of Americans and their freedoms. It claims to act in the best interests of the people and their government. The reality, of course, is very different. The CIA has a long history of violent anti-democratic behaviour around the world, and even...
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Israel is now arming seven rebel groups in Syria
The illegal Israeli occupation of the Syrian Golan Heights has now been in place for more than 50 years. This substantial territory, part of southern Syria, was conquered by Israeli occupation forces in the 1967war. The majority of the Syrian population in the territory was then either expelled, or fled...
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Israel's favourite British colonel libelled Baroness Warsi
Solicitors acting for former government minister Baroness Sayeeda Warsi announced last week that she had won £20,000 in libel damages plus costs from the Jewish News, after it published a defamatory article by Colonel Richard Kemp. In the April 2017 article, the ex-British Army officer claimed falsely that the...
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The Egyptian regime is complicit in Israel’s gas racket
The Egyptian regime has signed a long-gestating deal to begin importing natural gas from Israel. The Financial Times reported this week that Israeli company Delek has signed a deal to supply 64 billion cubic metres of gas over a decade to Egypt’s Dolphinus. The deal is reported to be...
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Palestinian Authority collaborated with CIA to spy on Palestinian dissidents
As I’ve written in this column several times before, the “Palestinian Authority” is, at best, a misnomer. It is neither particularly Palestinian nor even remotely authoritative. Since its inception in the mid-nineties, the PA has been made to serve the interests of the Israeli occupier. Indeed, it was entirely designed...
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There is still collusion across the River Jordan
Reports in the Jordanian and Israeli media this week say that Israel will soon reopen its embassy in Amman, which was closed following a deadly incident last July. That’s when one of the agents from Israel’s notorious Shin Bet secret police agency guarding the embassy building shot dead Mohammed...
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The Zionist Lehi was the last self-proclaimed terrorist group
Secret files released by MI5 in December give a fascinating new insight into a bombing campaign which terrorised London in the years following the Second World War. This was carried out by some of the Zionist groups fighting to seize control of Palestine from the British government who took...
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Israel welcomes Nazis while banning pro-Palestinian Jews
When former Labour Mayor of London Ken Livingstone was asked by a BBC interviewer if what Hitler did was legal, his response included the historical facts about a deal between the Nazis and the German Zionist movement. Coming as it did at the height of the 2016 “Labour anti-Semitism”...
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There is no such thing as progressive Zionism
A strand of Israeli propaganda with a long history has been to misrepresent the Zionist movement as a “progressive” cause. For example, over the past few years we have been told that Israel is good for women, the LGBTQ community, people of colour, the environment and even for technological...
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The ISIS war against Hamas in Gaza
At his ridiculous address to the UN General Assembly in 2014, Israel’s sadistic and deluded Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, claimed that, “ISIS and Hamas are branches of the same poisonous tree.” He continued: “When it comes to its ultimate goals, Hamas is ISIS, and ISIS is Hamas.” Since then, this...
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When Israel invited a South African Nazi on a state visit
One of the most under-reported aspects of security policy in the Middle East is Israel’s nuclear weapons programme. This apartheid state is estimated by the US government to have somewhere in the region of 200 nuclear warheads. The secret programme to develop these weapons of mass destruction started in the...
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The lies of Israel
Israel claims to be a light unto the nations. But it casts a dark shadow over the region. Israel claims to be the only democracy in the middle east. But 4.5 million of the Palestinians it rules have no vote. Israel claims to be a villa in the jungle. But this...
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Labour should repudiate Emily Thornberry's embrace of Israel
One of Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn’s few allies in the Parliamentary Labour Party has been Emily Thornberry. It was all the more disappointing, then, when she gave a terrible speech to Labour Friends of Israel last month. As I wrote for The Electronic Intifada, the speech may as well...
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Stars of Oscar-nominated Palestinian documentary imprisoned by Israel
One of the most boring refrains of liberals on the rare occasions they talk about Palestine is, “Where is the Palestinian Gandhi?” This tedious argument is periodically dredged up by some clueless know-it-all who seems to think it an original thought. I think I first came across it in Michael Moore’s...
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The real scandal is Israelgate, not Russiagate
When former US General Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, the media hype train about supposed Russian interference in last year’s US election went into overdrive once again. Flynn, a former national security advisor to President Trump, appeared in federal court in Washington DC earlier this month,...
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What next after Bin Salman has ordered Abbas to surrender to Israel?
Saudi Arabia and Israel represent a twin threat to the Arab world. Both states have long received the military and political backing of the world’s sole remaining superpower, the United States of America; the regimes of both states abuse human rights, have committed war crimes and discriminate against their...
