Mark Regev, now a chief spokesman for the Zionist State, was Israeli Ambassador to the UK from 2016 to 2020, the years when Israel was actively working to interfere in UK politics - as exposed by the first 'The Lobby' series on Al Zazeera in Jan 2017. 1/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lobby…
Shai Masot, an official at the Israeli embassy in London, was sent back to Israel. But NO Israeli diplomats were expelled (unlike the mass expulsions of Russian diplomats over the #Spripal incident in 2018 - when there was no evidence of Russian involvement). @timtron2020.
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@timtron2020 Unlike the later Skripal case, PM Teresa May delegated the Israeli case to her Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, who rejected calls to take action against the Israeli embassy and said that he regarded the matter as closed.
Mark Regev was born (as Mark Freiburg) in 1960 in Melbourne, Australia. HIs grandparents had immigrated from Germany and Poland. Regev made aliyah in 1982. Before he became Ambassador to the UK in 2016, Regev was from 2007 the spokesman for Netanyahu’s office and ...
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... "Israel’s global English-language voice during the Gaza campaigns and other crises.
Welcoming Regev’s posting, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews Jonathan Arkush said: 'We are delighted that Prime Minister Netanyahu has chosen ...
someone as high calibre as Mark Regev to serve as Israeli Ambassador to the United Kingdom. Over the years Mr Regev has worked tirelessly to ensure that Israel’s voice is heard in the international media, never shying away from tough questions and setting out ...
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Israel’s case with clarity and erudition. His deep knowledge of the Middle East and Europe stand him in good stead and we very much look forward to working with him in his new role.'"
So soon after the election in 2015 of the supporter of Palestinian rights and anti-war ...
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activist Jeremy Corbyn as Labour Party Leader, a powerful conspiracy was initiated to bring him down. Actors included PM Netanyahu, Ambassador Regev, the Board of Deputies, Mandelson, Blair, Tom Watson, Labour MPs, Michael Gove .... the list is endless.
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@TruthsSyria In 2007 Gen Wesley Clark recounted that a general in the Pentagon told him "on or about the 20th of September [2001]... 'We've made the decision we're going to war with Iraq.' I said, 'We're going to war with Iraq? Why?' He said, 'I don't know.'"
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@TruthsSyria On the very same day, 20th September 2001 - just 9 days after 9/11 - Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the US Congress; his entire speech is included in the Foreword to the 2001 Edition of his 1995 book "Fighting Terrorism" which Prof Sachs refers to here.
Netanyahu said that
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@TruthsSyria the argument made then "represent the principles and basic conceptions that must guide our actions in the great and crucial war that lies ahead."
(Netanyahu, Benjamin. Fighting Terrorism . Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Kindle Edition.)
@RealScottRitter is on 🔥🔥 in this long interview - and rightly so.
In 1962 JFK and RFK saved the world by talking to Russia AGAINST THE WISHES OF THEIR OWN ADVISERS.
Nuclear war was averted when Russia withdrew missiles from Cuba and the US REMOVED THEIRS FROM TURKEY. 1/
@RealScottRitter In 1962 JFK opened a hotline to Khrushchev, a phone at his home.
On 10 June 1963 he gave his American University speech, where he not only outlined a plan to curb nuclear arms, but also "laid out a hopeful, yet realistic route for world peace." 2/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_…
@RealScottRitter Both JFK and Khrushchev were profoundly shaken by how close the world had come to nuclear annihilation: as JFK said, a world in which "the living would envy the dead".
The first step for JFK was to stop proliferation beyond the then 5 nuclear powers. He was determined to
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@LetsGoBrando45 It was at 1996 elections consequent to the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, architect of the Oslo Accords, that Netanyahu became PM for the first time. 1/ 🧵 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_…
@LetsGoBrando45 In his 1996 election campaign Netanyahu hired a notorious American strategist, leading to a perception that "Mr. Netanyahu is too much a product of American packaging ... [Arthur] Finkelstein is the preferred consultant of political figures on the right 2/ nytimes.com/1996/05/26/wor…
@LetsGoBrando45 wing of America's spectrum... Netanyahu is sometimes seen as an American with an Israeli veneer... [He] lived outside Philadelphia for most of his adolescence, majored in architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology."
Netanyahu was in New York from 1984-88 as Israeli
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@2ETEKA Indeed. This is exactly Douglas Murray's argument in his chapter "The Marxist Foundations" pp 51-63 in "The Madness of Crowds".
At University in the 1960s I learnt that "Left" is power under control of the great mass of ordinary people. "Right" is retention of power
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@2ETEKA in the hands of a small class of monarchs and aristocrats. "Centrism" is where power is held by a small minority which is not hereditary and where government is close to business - as in "public-private partnerships". Fascism is Centrist.
"Far Right" is a label slapped on
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@2ETEKA a variety of groups, like British citizens demonstrating against mass immigration after their votes from 2014-2019 were ignored, the AfD in Germany, etc.
It remains true that Leftism means power under the control of the great mass of ordinary people. As Shelley wrote in 1819
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In response Iris Koh, founder of Singapore-based group “Healing The Divide” and champion of medical freedom, posted this on Facebook. 3/ facebook.com/iriskoh/posts/…
In 1974, when he had reached the aged of 80, Moshe Menuhin re-published two of his works in a single binding:
"Jewish Critics of Zionism: A Testamentary Essay"
and "The Stifling and Smearing of a Dissenter". 2/
In a new Introduction, Menuhin writes about Zionist Israel, the Middle East oil crisis after the 1973 war, and changing attitudes in the US towards the Zionist State.
Some of these words could have been written today. 3/