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April 19, 2014

British government expulsion of Israeli diplomat does not go far enough

The British Government announced earlier today that it is to expel a senior Israeli diplomat following the assassination of Mahmoud al Mabhouh in January, generally believed to have been...

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April 19, 2014

Cash for influence is not just “grubby”, Lord Mandelson, it’s odious

Business secretary Peter Mandelson’s belief that the cash for influence scandal is ‘rather grubby’ was a striking understatement. The affair is, in every respect, odious. To safeguard our politics...

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April 19, 2014

A MEMO analysis of the British media coverage of the US-Israel relationship “crisis”

Finally it seems that the scales are falling from the eyes of the British media and they are seeing Israel for what it truly is; an out of control,...

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April 19, 2014

Obama’s sole option: cut the aid and withdraw diplomatic support to Israel

Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, has said that relations between the two countries have entered their worst crisis for 35 years. When the Israeli government announced a...

Commentary & Analysis
April 19, 2014

Cameron should be the last to play the “identity” card

With their once substantial lead over the Labour Party now reduced to a bare minimum the last thing the Tories needed was another indicator that it is the party...

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April 19, 2014

Open Letter to Prime Minister Gordon Brown

Dear Prime Minister, As you are no doubt aware, government promises to make changes to British universal jurisdiction laws following the issue of an arrest warrant for former Israeli...

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April 19, 2014

The Government of Gaza on the arrest and detention of British Journalist Paul Martin

The recent arrest of British journalist Paul Martin has caused waves of concern in the British media. He was detained on 14 February whilst attending a military court session,...

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April 19, 2014

Andrew Gilligan, Dispatches and “Islamic terrorism”

“Gilligan’s Island” was a sixties sitcom with an eponymous hero who was “bumbling, dim-witted accident-prone”. Andrew Gilligan had nothing to do with that programme, but one can’t help...

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April 19, 2014

Open Letter to Prime Minister Gordon Brown

Dear Prime Minister, We are aware that the government has come under enormous pressure from groups campaigning to change British laws on universal jurisdiction to facilitate the unimpeded travel...

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April 19, 2014

Israeli hasbara-propaganda machine swings into action with shoddy journalism

Still reeling from the fallout of the Dubai “passport” scandal, Israel’s propagandists in Britain have gone on to the offensive. Short on facts and weighted heavily with innuendo both...

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