Tag Archives: Israel lobby

The Palestinians’ bid for a state at the UN – davka on 29th November

Posted on 29 November 2012 by

The 29th November is a special date in the Israeli national calendar. As I wrote last year: known in Israel by that strange quirk of mixing Biblical Hebrew with Anglicised calendar months as Kaf Tet beNovember (the Hebrew letters Kaf … Continue reading →

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Andrew Phillips complains that UK and US are “over-influenced by Israel lobbies”

Posted on 27 September 2011 by

This post was originally posted as a guest-post at CifWatch. Following on from my post of yesterday, where I took Andrew Phillips to task for not wishing the Palestinians to benefit if it also benefits Israel, in that same letter … Continue reading →

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