This is Matthew Gould, second from right, British Ambassador to Israel, who was pictured speaking at a meeting of the Leeds Zionist Federation that was also the opening of the Leeds Hasbarah Centre. The Leeds Zionist Federation is part of the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland, motto “Speaking Up for Israel.” A collection was made at the meeting to send packages to members of the Israeli Defence Force.
On 29 May 2011 The Jerusalem Post reported: “British Ambassador Matthew Gould declared his commitment to Israel and the principles of Zionism on Thursday”.
Remember this background, it is unusual behaviour for a diplomat, and it is important.
The six meetings between British Ambassador to Israel Matthew Gould and Minister of Defence Liam Fox and Adam Werritty together – only two of which were revealed by Cabinet Secretary Gus O’Donnell in his “investigation” into Werritty’s unauthorised role in the Ministry of Defence – raise vital concerns about a secret agenda for war at the core of government, comparable to Blair’s determination to drive through a war on Iraq..
This is a detective story. It begins a few weeks ago, when the Fox-Werritty scandal was first breaking in the media. I had a contact from an old friend from my Foreign Office days. This friend had access to the Gus O’Donnell investigation. He had given a message for me to a trusted third party.
Whistleblowing in the surveillance state is a difficult activity. I left through a neighbour’s garden, not carrying a mobile phone, puffed and panted by bicycle to an unmonitored but busy stretch of road, hitched a lift much of the way, then ordered a minicab on a payphone from a country pub to my final destination, a farm far from CCTV. There the intermediary gave me the message: what really was worrying senior civil servants in the Cabinet Office was that the Fox-Werritty link related to plans involving Mossad and the British Ambassador to Israel, Matthew Gould.
Since I became a notorious whistleblower, several of my ex-friends and contacts have used me to get out information they wanted to leak, via my blog. A good recent example was a senior friend at the UN who tipped me off in advance on the deal by which the US agreed to the Saudi attack on pro-democracy demonstrators in Bahrain, in return for Arab League support for the NATO attack on Libya. But this was rather different, not least in the apparent implication that our Ambassador to Israel, Matthew Gould, was engaged in something with Werritty which went beyond official FCO policy.
I was particularly concerned by this because I knew slightly and liked Matthew Gould, from the time he wrote speeches for Robin Cook. I hoped there was nothing much in it. But then Gould’s name started to come up as professional journalists dug into the story, and reported Werritty’s funding by pro-Israeli lobby groups.
I decided that the best approach was for me to write to Matthew Gould. I did so, asking him when he had first met Werritty, how many times he had met him, and how many communications of every kind there had been between them. I received the reply that these questions would be answered in Gus O’Donnell’s report.
But Gus O’Donnell’s report in fact answered none of these questions. It only mentioned two meetings at which Fox, Gould and Werritty were all three present. It did not mention Gould-Werritty bilateral meetings and contacts at all. To an ex-Ambassador like me, there was also something very fishy about the two trilateral meetings O’Donnell did mention and his characterisation of them.
This led me to dig further, and I was shocked to find that O’Donnell was, at the most charitable interpretation, economical with the truth. In fact there were at least six Fox-Werritty-Gould meetings, not the two given by O’Donnell. Why did GOD lie? I now had no doubt that my informant had pointed me towards something very real and very important indeed.
Matthew Gould was the only British Ambassador who Fox and Werrity met together. They met him six times. Why?
The first meeting to which O’Donnell admits, took place in September 2010. O’Donnell says this was
“a general discussion of international defence and security matters to enable Mr Gould better to understand MOD’s perspective.”
O’Donnell says Werritty should not have been present. An FCO spokesman told me on 21 October that
“Mr Gould’s meeting with the Defence Secretary was arranged by his office as part of his pre-posting briefing calls.”
All Ambassadors make pre-posting briefing calls around Whitehall before taking up their job, as you would expect. But even for our most senior Ambassadors, outside the Foreign Office those calls are not at Secretary of State level. Senior officials are quite capable of explaining policy to outgoing Ambassadors; Secretaries of State have many other things to do.
For this meeting to happen at all was not routine, and Werritty’s presence made it still more strange. Why was this meeting happening? I dug further, and learnt from a senior MOD source that there were two more very strange things about this meeting, neither noted by O’Donnell. There was no private secretary or MOD official present to take note of action points, and the meeting took place not in Fox’s office, but in the MOD dining room.
O’Donnell may have been able to fox the media, but to a former Ambassador this whole meeting stunk. I bombarded the FCO with more questions, and discovered an amazing fact left out by O’Donnell. The FCO spokesman replied to me on 21 October 2011 that:
“Mr Werritty was also present at an earlier meeting Mr Gould had with Dr Fox in the latter’s capacity as shadow Defence Secretary.”
So Gould, Fox and Werritty had got together before Gould was Ambassador, while Fox was still in opposition and while Werritty was – what, exactly? This opened far more questions than it answered. I put them to the FCO. When, where and why had this meeting happened? We only knew it was before May 2010, when Fox took office. What was discussed? There are very strict protocols for senior officials briefing opposition front bench spokesman. Had they been followed?
The FCO refused point blank to answer any further questions. I turned to an independent-minded MP, Jeremy Corbyn, who put down a parliamentary question to William Hague. The reply quite deliberately ignored almost all of Corbyn’s question, but it did throw up an extraordinary bit of information – yet another meeting between Fox, Werritty and Gould, which had not been previously admitted.
Hague replied to Corbyn that:
“Our ambassador to Israel was also invited by the former Defence Secretary to a private social engagement in summer 2010 at which Adam Werritty was present.”
Getting to the truth was like drawing teeth, but the picture was building. O’Donnell had completely mischaracterised the “Briefing meeting” between Fox, Werritty and O’Donnell by hiding the fact that the three had met up at least twice before – once for a meeting when Fox was in opposition, and once for “a social engagement.” The FCO did not answer Corbyn’s question as to who else was present at this “social engagement”.
This was also key because Gould’s other meetings with Fox and Werritty were being characterised – albeit falsely – as simply routine, something Gould had to do in the course of his ambassadorial duties. But this attendance at “a private social engagement” was a voluntary act by Gould, indubitable proof that, at the least, the three were happy in each other’s company, but given that all three were very active in zionist causes, it was a definite indication of something more than that.
That furtive meeting between Fox, Werritty and Gould in the MOD dining room, deliberately held away from Fox’s office where it should have taken place, and away from the MOD officials who should have been there, now looks less like briefing and more like plotting.
My existing doubts about the second and only other meeting to which O’Donnell does admit make plain why that question is very important.
O’Donnell had said that Gould, Fox and Werritty had met on 6 February 2011:
“in Tel Aviv. This was a general discussion of international affairs over a private dinner with senior Israelis. The UK Ambassador was present.”
There was something very wrong here. Any ex-Ambassador knows that any dinner with senior figures from your host country, at which the British Ambassador to that country and a British Secretary of State are both present, and at which international affairs are discussed, can never be “private”. You are always representing the UK government in that circumstance. The only explanation I could think of for O’Donnell’s astonishing description of this as a “private” dinner was that the discussion was far from being official UK policy.
I therefore asked the FCO who was at this dinner, what was discussed, and who was paying for it? I viewed the last as my trump card – if either Gould or Fox was receiving hospitality, they are obliged to declare it. To my astonishment the FCO refused to say who was present or who paid. Corbyn’s parliamentary question also covered the issue of who was at this dinner, to which he received no reply.
Plainly something was very wrong. I therefore again asked how often Gould had met or communicated with Werritty without Fox being present. Again the FCO refused to reply. But one piece of information that had been found by other journalists was that, prior to the Tel Aviv dinner, Fox, Gould and Werritty had together attended the Herzilya conference in Israel. The programme of this is freely available. It is an unabashedly staunch zionist annual conference on “Israel’s security”, which makes no pretence at a balanced approach to Palestinian questions and attracts a strong US neo-conservative following. Fox, Gould and Werritty sat together at this event.
Yet again, the liar O’Donnell does not mention it.
I then learnt of yet another, a sixth meeting between Fox, Gould and Werritty. This time my infomrant was another old friend, a jewish diplomat for another country, based at an Embassy in London. They had met Gould, Fox and Werritty together at the “We believe in Israel” conference in London in May 2011. Here is a photo of Gould and Fox together at that conference.
I had no doubt about the direction this information was leading, but I now needed to go back to my original source. Sometimes the best way to hide something is to put it right under the noses of those looking for it, and on Wednesday I picked up the information in a tent at the Occupy London camp outside St Paul’s cathedral.
This is the story I was given.
Matthew Gould was Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy in Iran, a country which Werritty frequently visited, and where Werritty claimed to have British government support for plots against Ahmadinejad. Gould worked at the British Embassy in Washington; the Fox-Werritty Atlantic Bridge fake charity was active in building links between British and American neo-conservatives and particularly ultra-zionists. Gould’s responsibilities at the Embassy included co-ordination on US policy towards Iran. The first meeting of all three, which the FCO refuses to date, probably stems from this period.
According to my source, there is a long history of contact between Gould and Werritty. The FCO refuse to give any information on Gould-Werritty meetings or communications except those meetings where Fox was present – and those have only been admitted gradually, one by one. We may not have them all even yet.
My source says that co-ordinating with Israel and the US on diplomatic preparation for an attack on Iran was the subject of all these meetings. That absolutely fits with the jobs Gould held at the relevant times. The FCO refuses to say what was discussed. My source says that, most crucially, Iran was discussed at the Tel Aviv dinner, and the others present represented Mossad. The FCO again refuses to say who was present or what was discussed.
On Wednesday 2 November it was revealed in the press that under Fox the MOD had prepared secret and detailed contingency plans for British participation in an attack on Iran.
There are very important questions here. Was Gould really discussing neo-con plans for attacking Iran with Werritty and eventually with Fox before the Conservatives were even in government? Why did O’Donnell’s report so carefully mislead on the Fox-Gould-Werritty axis? How far was the FCO aware of MOD preparations for attacking Iran? Is there a neo-con cell of senior ministers and officials, co-ordinating with Israel and the United States, and keeping their designs hidden from the Conservative’s coalition partners?
The government could clear up these matters if it answered some of the questions it refuses to answer, even when asked formally by a member of parliament. The media have largely moved on from the Fox-Werritty affair, but have barely skimmed the surface of the key questions it raises. They relate to secrecy, democratic accountabilty and preparations to launch a war, preparations which bypass the safeguards of good government. The refusal to give straight answers to simple questions by a member of perliament strikes at the very root of our democracy.
Is this not precisely the situation we were in with Blair and Iraq? Have no lessons been learnt?
There is a further question which arises. Ever since the creation of the state of Israel, the UK had a policy of not appointing a jewish Briton as Ambassador, for fear of conflict of interest. As a similar policy of not appointing a catholic Ambassador to the Vatican. New Labour overturned both longstanding policies as discriminatory. Matthew Gould is therefore the first jewish British Ambassador to Israel.
Matthew Gould does not see his race or religion as irrelevant. He has chosen to give numerous interviews to both British and Israeli media on the subject of being a jewish ambassador, and has been at pains to be photographed by the Israeli media participating in jewish religious festivals. Israeli newspaper Haaretz described him as “Not just an ambassador who is jewish, but a jewish ambassador”. That rather peculiar phrase appears directly to indicate that the potential conflict of interest for a British ambassador in Israel has indeed arisen.
It is thus most unfortunate that it is Gould who is the only British Ambassador to have met Fox and Werritty together, who met them six times, and who now stands suspected of long term participation with them in a scheme to forward war with Iran, in cooperation with Israel. This makes it even more imperative that the FCO answers now the numerous outstanding questions about the Gould/Werritty relationship and the purpose of all those meetings with Fox.
There is no doubt that the O’Donnell report’s deceitful non-reporting of so many Fox-Gould-Werritty meetings, the FCO’s blunt refusal to list Gould-Werritty, meetings and contacts without Fox, and the refusal to say who else was present at any of these occasions, amounts to irrefutable evidence that something very important is being hidden right at the heart of government. I have no doubt that my informant is telling the truth, and the secret is the plan to attack Iran. It fits all the above facts. What else does?
Please feel free to re-use and republish this article anywhere, commercially or otherwise. It has been blocked by the mainstream media. I write regularly for the mainstream media and this is the first article of mine I have ever been unable to publish. People have risked a huge amount by leaking me information in an effort to stop the government machinery from ramping up a war with Iran. There are many good people in government who do not want to see another Iraq. Please do all you can to publish and redistribute this information.
UPDATE A commenter has already pointed me to this bit of invaluable evidence:
“My government absolutely agrees with your conception of the Iranian threat and the importance of your determination to battle it.” Dealing with the Iranian threat will be a large part of my work here.” Gould said.
From Israel National News. It also says that he will be trying to promote a positive atmosphere between Israel and the Palestinian National Authority, but the shallowest or the deepest search shows the same picture; an entirely biased indeed fanatical zionist who must give no confidence at all to the Palestinian Authority. He must be recalled.
Rodrick,
Since I read this article this morning I feel upset. How are we to live in peace with our children and have a sense of justice when people are plotting expansive and destructive wars against our will? I am afraid Harper has already gone this way. The Canadian conservatives are the most secretive of all and they have no real opposition right now. CSIS monitors people, knocks on their doors for as little as being from a specific country or having participated in the Gaza Freedom boats. Harper declared that any criticism of Israel is anti-semitic.
I feel upset and I am unable to sleep. The media failed us. All we have are people with conscience and means to dig for the truth. Thanks Mr. Murray!
Barbara,
The truth must come out even if it is used by the far right. I wrote a piece on my blog about Gay Girl in Damascus and the role of The Guardian in the story, it was picked up by conservative blogs to make fun of The Guardian. It did not upset me. Pkus, I think the European far right is much more zionist than you think (e.g. Breivik)
Fasinating and timely article Craig.
Thank you.
But please be really careful as you go about your business.
There’s no doubt in my mind these types will kill,maim and torture anyone who questions them.
Further,there’s no point taking your battery/SIM card out of your phone.Really.
Best to assume,with your worldview,that you’re being watched/tapped anyway (probably for years)and its only when your SIM/mobile indicator disappears off GCHQ/NSA radar that they really get into “full pipe take “mode.
Just act natural.
Best wishes to you Craig,x
Angrysobs
I said that some years after I ceased to be a diplomat.
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Yes, that’s true.
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I hate to sound like the donkey at the ballet, but did you submit that article to all the British newspapers exactly as it appears here? Apart from a bit of undisciplined writing, which could be cleaned up a bit (others have pointed out the move from “charitable interpretation, economical with the truth” to suddenly blaring “the liar O’Donnell!” and “why did GOD lie?”), I think readers of the Daily Mail might find it a bit hard to swallow the purpose of your cycling from a neighbour’s garden, hitching a lift to a country pub and all that. I realize it flies easily enough here, but you have commenters who quite seriously believe that Mark Golding’s dog was induced by a Zionist to eat Mark’s mobile phone. Then the idea that you happened upon some crucial evidence in a tent outside St. Paul’s just sounds a bit weird to the uninitiated, or the sheeple (brainwashed masses).
Angrysoba,
We’re not braiwashed masses. Just google Gould and Werrity and you will find articles in the MSM since october pointing to an Iran plot. However, none of these articles was able to connect the dots and prove that they had real business together.
As long as there was no proof of the plot, the info was non significant. So who is being brainwashed here?
@ Angrysoba.
Who cares about your sockpuppet pedantry?
What matters is that the crux Of Craig’s article is here.
Who cares where he got his inside info from?Whether a tent at Occupy St.Pauls or the Wailing Wall?…the salient point is the thrust of the piece.
Stop being such a little person in the larger debate.
Unless,of course, that costs you overtime.
I have put this up at the USA site Godlike…
here
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1703910/pg1#28162275
I suggest folks here add their comments to the thread…
Godlike is a CIA front, so I don’t expect the thread to flourish, evenso, the Genie is now out of the bottle, so the CIA wankers at Godlike will probably let it be.
TBH they are lame so far, have not even got it on their radar, LOL!!!
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Enlightening and disturbing stuff…
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This guy Craig may be the next Dr David Kelly – get me? – let’s protect this man and spread this FAR and WIDE folks.
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Long story, here are the guts
According to my source, there is a long history of contact between Gould and Werritty. The FCO refuse to give any information on Gould-Werritty meetings or communications except those meetings where Fox was present – and those have only been admitted gradually, one by one. We may not have them all even yet.
My source says that co-ordinating with Israel and the US on diplomatic preparation for an attack on Iran was the subject of all these meetings. That absolutely fits with the jobs Gould held at the relevant times. The FCO refuses to say what was discussed. My source says that, most crucially, Iran was discussed at the Tel Aviv dinner, and the others present represented Mossad. The FCO again refuses to say who was present or what was discussed.
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Please feel free to re-use and republish this article anywhere, commercially or otherwise. It has been blocked by the mainstream media. I write regularly for the mainstream media and this is the first article of mine I have ever been unable to publish. People have risked a huge amount by leaking me information in an effort to stop the government machinery from ramping up a war with Iran. There are many good people in government who do not want to see another Iraq. Please do all you can to publish and redistribute this information.
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Someone posted the link to this blog in the comments section of an article at http://antiwar.com Those of you interested in this topic will find antiwar.com a good source for information on this and similar topics.. Here is the URL for the article where I found the link to this blog.
The Armageddon Network
How the war party is ginning up war with Iran
by Justin Raimondo, November 14, 2011
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/11/13/the-armageddon-network/
Those of us that believe that the 5OO,OOO to I,OOO,OOO dead in Iraq in that war started by dual-citizen Zionist Neocons using forged and bogus evidence is enough. We are implacably against any “preemptive” attack on Iran. Here is another link some of you may find interesting and useful… http://prisonplanet.com
We owe our thanks to Mr Murray for this very excellent piece of sleuthing.. and of course the article… I don’t have much hope of this all having much deterrent effect on the parties like the U.S. [I’m a Yank] Israel or even your own United Kingdom. It seems to me that the movers for war and hegemony barely attempt to hide their murderous proclivities and actions…. After all, they see us as conquered peoples which they control. Try this: Notice the odd smirk when he says pull-it… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p34XrI2Fm6I
Didn’t know that Gould was “Principal Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary David Miliband” The scandal might extend beyond the conservatives…
Sophia – very good – I hope we all know the history of the millipedes, do we?
Their father?
Where did he come from?
Where do their loyalties lie?
I suggest exactly the same shithole that we all know all too well.
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Cheers mate, I am about to crash, we are in different time zones so maybe you (and others) can bump it a bit.
This is the identical scenario, Blair went to suck Bush’s cock at his ranch one year before the war, and conned the UK parliament, with SIS MI5 MI6 MOSSAD CIA connivance.
This is not rocket science.
The fuckers ALWAYS repeat what they have got away with before.
Always.
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Craig
Your story is posted on the Middle Eastern blog Friday Lunch Club:
http://friday-lunch-club.blogspot.com/
and it has been referenced on Colonel Pat Lang’s influential Intelligence blog in the States:
http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2011/11/a-variety-of-iran-items.html
and the “Moon of Alabama” blog:
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2011/11/joyner-iaea-exceeds-its-mandate-biased-because-of-israel-.html#comments
Congratulations
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The whole world is watching.
Occupy Wall Street gone. Brutally.
angrysoba,
“Then the idea that you happened upon some crucial evidence in a tent outside St. Paul’s just sounds a bit weird to the uninitiated”
It was an arranged pick-up, chosen because that is the last place the authorities would expect. I though that was pretty plain but I might edit to make it more so.
But the mainstream outlets in question are all ones for which I had written before, at least ahlf a dozen times. The points you make would be siggested edits, not reasons to turn it down completely. What was peculiarly chillling was that nobody offered any criticism of the piece, they all said they loved it – just that they had flu, or the right editor is stuck in the lift…
I deal with these people regularly, and this was not normal
OccupyWallSt Occupy Wall Street
The 5k books of #thepeopleslibrary have been thrown in the trash.
Says it all.
Craig
It would be helpful if you could get whoever does your blog to include a permalink with each comment. This would allow commenters to refer more easily to other comments and also allow outsiders to be referred directly to a specific comment without having to trawl the whole list.
I find it very useful on my own blogs.
Excellent piece and use of your talents.
on Wednesday I picked up the information in a tent at the Occupy London camp outside St Paul’s cathedral.
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Craig
This is perfectly clear and only a troll trying to invent reasons to quibble would interpret it in such a distorted way as Bittertears above. No need to edit that IMV.
A good and important piece.
Circumstantial and surrounding evidence looks solid, even with the use of anonymous sources. You don’t have a record of what was discussed at the meetings themselves, but revealing their very existence must count for something.
Gould, Fox and Werrity may still deny (in fact they have to deny), which would make it your word against theirs, but then they would have to explain why these meetings weren’t mentioned before.
Gould should go or be recalled, but I don’t think think it’s going to happen, not only because the embarassment of recalling the first Jewish Ambassador to Israel may be too much for the Foreign Office and the Government to stomach, but also because the Israelis won’t allow it. But he really should go. I can’t think of anything in terms of foreign policy less in this country’s national interest and more likely to provoke terrorist attacks in this country and the USA than a war with Iran.
First the Library,
OWSLibrary The People’s Library
NYPD destroying american cultural history, they’re destroying the documents, the books, the artwork of an event in our nation’s history.
Then the Kitchen with Tear Gas
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The consistent message from Gould, talking to Israeli audiences, is presumably Hague’s:
“We don’t want to fight, but by Jingo if you do
“We want the oil, we need the cash, and we’re supporting you”
What fascinates me is the lack of any reaction to this. There is no attempt, here or elsewhere on the net, to refute the facts. They simply hope it will not be seen by enough people to be effective. Meantime the mainstream media simply refuses to follow up on the very obvious questions about what Gould and Werritty were doing. The mainstream media has put its head in the sand and is pretending the internet is not happening and nothing they do not mention exists. It is all very peculiar.
You would think in particular that the mainstream media would at the very least ask why the O’Donnell report only mentioned two Fox/Gould/Werritty meetings. What a waste of space they are.
@Craig. Indeed. Just give it a little time. You have opened a crack in the dam and it will gain momentum.
Excellent work, Craig – I’ve reposted it on my blog. The media’s refusal to publish this is hardly surprising. The Guardian actually apologised recently for publishing articles that may be construed as “anti-Semetic”, if you can believe that. Clearly the world is going slightly mad…
Wow! It is so inspirational to come here this morning and to see the united action that has been taken by so many people in this country and others to support Craig in exposing this outrageous treachery.
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My BT broadband connection went hunting yesterday evening and this morning (server problem so they said) so unfortunately I have not been able to participate.
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A good illustration of the effectiveness of people standing together is the phenomenon from the US Occupy movement – Mic Check. Used here at De Paul to thwart some Israeli propagandist.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhhrTvdrlRs
Fact Checking Israeli Apartheid
An alliance has been popping off the military viability of potentially opposing Arab states ever since the Arab Spring began. We were lead to believe that this “revolution” is about democracy but it is not; it is about military strength. Millions of demonstrators are not, in the modern world, a viable military force. In modern warfare they may be able to resist through demonstration and insurgency but they can’t win in a military sense.
Syria is now the current target with, I suspect, the ultimate aim being an attack on Iran, once all its potential supporters have been neutered. If it is a war then it will be an extremely messy one.
The question is, if we believe this to be true, and our morals make us believe our country should stand against this, what do we do ?.
Such reassuring news on Bloomberg for democracy in Italy and the EU. Do THEY think we were born yesterday?
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Goldman Sachs Says Adviser Mario Monti Resigns His Post at Firm
Nov 14, 2011 8:19 AM GMT
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) said international adviser Mario Monti, who yesterday was asked to lead a new Italy government, has “discharged all his obligations” to the firm.
Goldman wishes Monti success in the “extraordinarily important task” he has assumed, according to an e-mailed statement today.
“What was peculiarly chillling was that nobody offered any criticism of the piece, they all said they loved it – just that they had flu, or the right editor is stuck in the lift…”
They might lose their jobs because the piece shows Israel’s activities in bad light.
Remember the UK’s foreign policy is decided by the elites behind closed doors as your article shows clearly –regardless of what the majority of people want or think. It’s a big problem. It’s very undemocratic. Will that be fixed?
The article is posted here.
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“Plotting” against Iran
I have long been suspicious about the appointment of Matthew Gould as British ambassador to Israel, first because Britain is not a Jewish country and therefore should not be represented by a Zionist Jew especially in the Middle East, and secondly because of Gould’s earlier posting to Iran. Now Craig Murray, a former British ambassador himself, claims to have serious evidence connecting Gould with a secret plan to attack Iran while the Foreign Office and the Cabinet Secretary Gus O’Donnell attempt to evade questioning
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http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/11/14/playground-bullying-of-palestine-and-iran-must-stop…/
It has been evident for quite some time that all our main political parties and our media all sing from the same hymn sheet when it comes to the important stuff.
It makes you wonder what Zionisms pull is , is it financial gain or is it that people like Murdoch have dirt on so many people that they dare not oppose this disgusting ideology .
Every credit to you Craig , I think this is a brave move in this day and age .
There has to be more people like you in the political classes that haven’t sold their souls to the devil, who are prepared to stand up for what is right and not lines their pockets .