Gilad Atzmon reflects on Channel 4’s exposure of the Israel lobby in Britain. He argues that the lobby’s role in inciting Britain’s participation in the illegal war on Iraq, and the fact that it has turned the UK into a willing servant of “a criminal terrorist state”, make the immediate de-Zionization of Britain an urgent task.
On Monday [16 November] the British TV broadcaster, Channel 4, screened “Inside Britain’s Israel Lobby, a devastating expose of the Jewish lobby in the UK. “We couldn’t find a conspiracy,” affirmed the presenter, Peter Oborne, who is also a columnist for the Daily Mail. He was right. After running the show for so many years, the Jewish lobby’s purchase of British politicians and media presence is in the open.
Channel 4 Dispatches: "Inside Britain's Israel lobby", broadcast on 16 November 2009. The video can also be viewed here.
The Guardian newspaper reported today that two years ago a controversial study by American academics Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer explored the influence of the Israel lobby over US foreign policy “but Britain's pro-Israel organizations have been subjected to far too less scrutiny”. This is indeed the case, and as Oborne disclosed, both British politicians and Zionist pressure groups enjoy it to the maximum.
In the documentary Sir Richard Dalton, a former ambassador to Libya and Iran and consul-general in Jerusalem, said: "I don't believe, and I don't think anybody else believes these contributions come with no strings attached." I would suggest that “strings attached” is a very gentle way of putting it. “Chained to submission” would be far closer to the truth.
However, the case against Zionism and Zionist infiltration appears to be gaining momentum in Britain.
The Jewish community is not happy at all. After so many years of setting the tone, bribing UK politicians and controlling the BBC they are used to being untouchable.
Labour MP Denis MacShane, who operates as the House of Common’s UK equivalent of the US “Anti-Defamation League”, told the Israeli newspaper the Jerusalem Post that "if there is a Jewish /Israel lobby here, it is not very effective, as Israel is almost treated as a pariah state in the media and has few friends in politics".
MacShane may be right; one cannot buy friendship with money. But according to Monday’s broadcast, one can certainly buy British politicians’ subservience for just a few shekels. According to the Guardian, 50 per cent of the Shadow Cabinet are now “friends of Israel”. In that context one common saying comes to mind: “Tell me who your friends are and I will tell you who you are.”
I would assume that if there was any public respect left for the British Parliament, British political parties and the BBC, it should be gone by now. Just a few months ago Britons were devastated to find out about their MPs' personal expenses bills. Yesterday they learned about their leading politicians’ affiliation with the darkest possible regime and ideology around. They also learned that their national broadcaster is influenced by Zionists pressure groups run from Jerusalem.
Mark Gardner from the Zionist “Community Security Trust” is not happy either. He complained that Dispatches producers behaved as if they were investigating a “criminal gang rather than various Jewish community-linked organizations".
Gardner is also correct. It is indeed tragic to admit that the Jewish lobby is far more worrying than a criminal gang. It is there to serve a murderous state with a devastating record of crimes against humanity. Thanks to the Jewish lobby, we are all complicit in the Zionist crime. Not only are those lobbyists heavily corrupted and removed from any ethical value system, they also corrupt everything they touch. They obviously contaminate every politician who is happy to take their shekels. Consequently, they incriminate us all as a society.
Watching Channel 4’s “Dispatches” yesterday I wondered to myself whether this is the “democracy” some British politicians such as David Miliband insist on spreading around. I also wonder whether this is the governing model that Jewish Chronicle writer Nick Cohen and the Israeli Hasbara Committee author David Aaronovitch were trying to promote when they were supporting the invasion of Iraq back in 2003.
Political commentator Peter Oborne indeed fulfilled his promise. He told us almost everything we want to know about the lobby: “who they are, how they are funded, how they work and what influence they have, from the key groups to the wealthy individuals who help bankroll the lobbying”.
However, there is a single observation that must be added. People out there must never forget that Britain was taken into a war that cost more than a million Iraqi lives and that, at the time, Lord Levy was the No. 1 Labour Party fundraiser. Putting the two together – an illegal war that serves only Israeli interests and Sir Richard Dalton’s observation that Zionist “contribution” comes with “strings attached” – leaves a very bitter taste. Thanks to its heavily-corrupted politicians Britain is now willingly serving the darkest possible racist national ideology and supporting a criminal terrorist state.
British politicians and media are caught in bed with too many Zionist wolves. In order to reclaim its sovereignty and dignity, Britain must de-Zionize itself immediately.
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.
