Israel control of UK government
Waking up to Israel’s stranglehold over British politics
By Gilad Atzmon
9 February 2010
http://www.redress.cc/stooges/gatzmon20100209
Gilad Atzmon views the role of Israel lobbyists in Britain’s Iraq Inquiry as a
microcosm of the stranglehold of these lobbyists over British politics in
general, and warns that the British public had better wake up to this before it
is too late.
”One may wonder whether we still need an election in this country. At the end of the day, the vast majority of the British political elite are practically bought by the Israeli lobby.”
The more I read about the Chilcot [Iraq] inquiry the more disturbed I am. The
fallacy imbued in the heart of British “democracy” is staggering. While some
commentators are concerned with questions to do with the legality of the war,
the most crucial issue here is actually the disappearance of ethical judgment
from our public and political life. Rather than being concerned with morality
and ethics, British politicians are concerned with legalism. In other words, if
someone would manage to prove that the war was “legal”, then the murdering of a
million and a half Iraqis would be well justified. Let’s face it, our
politicians are corrupt to the bone.
The Israel lobby dominates Labour and owns most Conservative MPs and other
politicians
In fact, the Chilcot inquiry is in itself a pretty disturbing concept. As George
Monbiot
pointed out a few days ago in the Guardian’s Comment is Free, in the
world of British “official inquiries” it is the government that appoints the
inquiry’s members and sets its terms of reference. “It's the equivalent of a
criminal suspect being allowed to choose what the charges should be, who should
judge his case and who should sit on the jury.” As if this were not enough, none
of the inquiry members is an attorney. None of its member is qualified in the
art of questioning. Consequently, the inquiry doesn’t have any legal ability,
capacity or teeth. It is a farce. It is there to release some public steam. It
is there to convey a false image of openness. I believe that the most pathetic
statement was
pronounced last week by Tony Blair. “People didn’t think that
al-Qaeda and Iran would play the role that they did,” announced the unchallenged
genocidal man in front of inquiry. Basically, we are now blaming the so-called
“enemy” for not performing according to “our plans”. I guess that even an
illiterate burglar would refrain from using such an argument in the court. Blair
obviously got away with it.
But there is one positive side to all this. As sad as this Chilcot inquiry seems
to be, the choice of its team members is also revealing. The selection of the
panel suggests who the government is inclined to appoint when it needs a
whitewash.
On 22 November 2009, as the Chilcot inquiry was preparing to convene, a former
British ambassador, Sir Oliver Miles, expressed
concerns over the fact that two out of the five
members of the inquiry’s committee (40 per cent),
Martin Gilbert
and Lawrence Freedman, were “strong supporters of Tony Blair and/or the
Iraq war”. He also mentioned that both Gilbert and Freedman were Jewish and that
Gilbert is a devout Zionist”. Richard Ingrams wondered a week later in the
Independent whether the Zionist links to the Iraq invasion would be brushed
aside.
At the time Britain was taken to the Iraq war, the chief fundraiser of its
governing party was the devout Zionist Lord Michael Levy, who managed to gather
a number of wealthy Zionists around him. The inquiry should investigate closely
the case of the Zionist parliamentary lobby called “Labour Friends of Israel”.
In the days leading up to the war, it was reported in the Guardian that the
forged information about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction originated in an
Israeli intelligence agency. It was later revealed that references to Israel in
Britain’s Iraq weapons dossier were were
hushed up. It is crucial that the inquiry
establishes whether this was indeed the case. If it was, it would support the
contention that Britain was led into a war by people in the service of a foreign
country and on behalf of foreign interests.
However, it would seem that the unique amalgam of the inquiry panel, the lack of
an attorney and the presence of two pro-Blair, pro-war enthusiasts, one of them
a Zionist by admission, is there to stop the inquiry from hitting the truth.
On 28 January 2010, BBC Radio 4’s “Today” programme reported that Martin Gilbert
had expressed “deep unease” at the articles by Sir Oliver Miles and Richard
Ingrams. Gilbert gave an interview to the
Israel National Radio, a radio
station run by Jewish settlers operating from an illegal settlement in the
occupied Palestinian territories.
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Listen to BBC correspondent Tim Franks's report on the allegations of
"anti-Semitism" made by Israel's voice on the Iraq Inquiry panel, Martin Gilbert
– BBC Radio 4, 0739 GMT, 28 January 2010
In the interview with the settlers, Gilbert offered false information about some
obvious historical facts. He said, for instance, that “as far as he could see”
in 2003 Israel “regarded Iran [rather than Iraq] as the greater danger”.
Every person who comments on the Iraq war is fully aware that Iran became a
leading regional power due to the military collapse of Iraq. It was the defeat
of the Iraqi army and regime in 2003 that promoted Iran to the position of
premier enemy of the Jewish state.
Two possible interpretations may be available to explain Gilbert’s comment. He
is either intellectually lame or disingenuous. Alternatively, one may argue that
Gilbert is far from stupid or insincere and that he is just another Zionist spin
master. As we all know, the Labour Party operates as a magnet for characters
with spin-doctor qualities. Whether Gilbert is a spin doctor, a hypocrite or a
dimwit is not for me to decide. But one thing is clear beyond doubt: the man
must be removed from the Chilcot inquiry immediately. We cannot allow a person
who may be a charlatan or a spin doctor, one who communicates with settler radio
stations, to judge on our behalf what the true events were that led to the Iraq
war, which he himself supported.
Furthermore, we should also make sure that Gilbert is removed from the national
curriculum. I myself won’t allow my children to study World War II or Churchill
from a textbook written by a Zionist war enthusiast who may also be either
disingenuous or dim. If I ever see my kids looking into Gilbert’s texts, I will
insist that they read it critically, so they know the difference between what
Zionists want to tell us about our past and what the past is.
But Gilbert is just one symptom of a far deeper and worrying phenomenon. In
recent years, Israel and its lobbies have managed to gain extensive control over
British political life. Just a few months back the UK’s Channel 4 programme
“Dispatches” revealed that a “pro-Israel lobby group is bankrolling the Tories”
and that “50 per cent of MPs in the shadow cabinet are Conservative Friends of
Israel members”. One may wonder whether we still need an election in this
country. At the end of the day, the vast majority of the British political elite
are practically bought by the Israeli lobby.
As we all know, for Zionist power to prevail a
Sabbath
Goy is needed. That is, a goy that would support the neo-con
wars, a goy that would vote “very
strongly for the Iraq war”, a goy that would vote “very
strongly against an investigation into the Iraq war”, a goy that
would fight anti-Semitism, a goy that would be corrupted enough to
spin for the Zionist cause. Naturally, such a person would be a shady
character. He would also fail to resign once exposed.
In the following video you can watch
Labour Friend of Israel MP Denis MacShane
rushing to save Martin Gilbert.
Israel lobby MP Dennis MacShane – a Sabbath Goy
As expected, MacShane repeats Gilbert’s embarrassing trick; he either pretends
to be stupid or spins the Zionist mantra. “Religion,” he quotes Thomas
Jefferson, “should play no part in appointment to pubic office.” MacShane, who
wrote a book about anti-Semitism, must know that it is not Gilbert’s faith or
even ethnicity that concerns a growing number of Britons. It is the Jewish
nationalist ideology, i.e. Zionism, that alarms Oliver Miles and the rest of us.
It is this ideology that Gilbert, a Zionist by admission, succumbs to and that
should be enough to stop him from partaking in an official British official into
a Zionist war. In legal terms, this is commonly referred to as a conflict of
interests.
The clumsiness of Gordon Brown’s cabinet appointing such a farce of an official
inquiry is mind blowing. It also reveals that the British political system is
failing all the way through. It wasn’t just Blair and his acolytes. It continued
with Brown and won’t stop with the coming Tory government that, as mentioned
above, is largely bought by the same Israel lobby.
Thinking about Karl Popper’s The open society and its enemies, we are probably
entitled to conclude that we are very far from being an “open society”. However,
at least we know who our enemies are. We may admit that for a few decades Israel
and its supporters enjoyed a carte blanche in academia and politics, probably
because of Western guilt. However, as Israeli crimes are exposed and neo-con
intervention is realized, our patience with Israel, its Zionist lobbies and its
Sabbath Goys is running out. Britain, you had better wake up before it is too
late.
Gilad Atzmon is an Israeli-born musician, writer and anti-racism campaigner. His
latest jazz album, "In loving memory of America", was released on 1 March 2009
and can be purchased here.