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- 0:18Hello one, Welcome to the UK column. I'm my host Mike Rubinson joining
- 0:21me today. I have Vanessa Billy from Damascus and David Miller. David welcome,
- 0:28and Vanessa welcome to the program. We're going to get started off with
- 0:31talking about Israel and Zionism and so on. So David, first question on
- 0:38my lips at the moment is what is the Zionist movement and what is the
- 0:45difference between the Zionist movement and the Zionist lobby. Well, I mean,
- 0:51I think that there's been a lot of misunderstanding about what people usually call the
- 0:56Israel Lobby and the broader Zionist movement, which is what I tend to buy
- 1:03on about quite a lot. And I think it's really very important for us
- 1:07to understand what the differences between the Israel Lobby and the Zionist movements. Now,
- 1:11the Israel Lobby, you know, easily defined, is all of those
- 1:14groups in Western countries in the US, UK, France, or Germany wherever
- 1:18else who are engaged in attempting to influence policy, either domestic policy or foreign
- 1:25policy in the interests of Zionism or more specifically the regime in occupied partside the
- 1:34Zionist regime. So that's the organizations which might be in the political parties like
- 1:40for example, Conservative Friends of Israel or Labor Friends of Israel in the UK.
- 1:44Or they might be think tags like the new Tanks that there are Key
- 1:51Policy Exchange, Henry Jackson Society, etc. Or they might be other kinds
- 1:56of lobby and influenced groups like BIKOP for example Britain Israel Communications and Research Center,
- 2:02which is there to influence the media in favor of Prosionist and narratives and
- 2:08talking points. Now, all these organizations, one can say, are the
- 2:13Israel lobby. And we can also note other organizations like the Board of Deputies
- 2:19or the Jewish Leadership Council which are all pro Israel organizations or umbrellas. And
- 2:25everyone really would admit that those are organizations which are part of a lobby to
- 2:30pursue Zionist ideas. But when you talk about then I should say, of
- 2:36course, that that is the way in which the Israel lobby is conceptualized by
- 2:38almost Everybody's talked about it in the academic literature, in particular, most of
- 2:43obviously Meuscheimer and Walton their path breaking book called the Israel Lobby in two thousand
- 2:49and five or six or whatever it was, And that's the kind of definition
- 2:53that he use. In the US, they have similar kinds of organizations.
- 2:55For example, they think tanks like the Foundation for Defensive Democracy or WINNEP or
- 3:04a whole range of others, or the ADL, the Anti Defamation League and
- 3:07others. Right, But there's something more too, what I would call the
- 3:15Zionist movement than just those organizations. And if you look at micham or Walt's
- 3:19book, for example, you find that the main Zionist organizations in the US
- 3:24are not either not in the index or only covered fleetingly. And I would
- 3:30I would try to explain that by giving you an indication of what the Zionist
- 3:35movement is and how that relates to the lobby. So the Zionist movement is,
- 3:39of course famously a movement set up at the end of the nineteenth century,
- 3:46whether or not through an organization called the Zionist Organization, and they had
- 3:50big international conferences in Switzerland and in the UK and another place indeed in America
- 3:57as well. It much later, and that's that organization became later on in
- 4:05the middle part of the last century. The World Zionist Organization. So it's
- 4:12telling you something significantly. It's not just that they was a Zionist organization,
- 4:16it's that it's now saying that it's a world Zionist organization. Of course,
- 4:20they don't have members in every country in the world. They have members in
- 4:24roughly forty five countries. But we can come back to that more in more
- 4:29detailed later. And associated with the the Zionist movement, the aim of which
- 4:33was to set up a Jewish state in the historic territory of Mandate Palestine.
- 4:39We're a series of other organizations. So the Zionist Organization is is at the
- 4:43top of the world Zionist organization, and it has a number of other organizations
- 4:46which are there to help to construct the Zionist settler project. So, for
- 4:54example, they have the Jewish National Fund, which is there too to expropriate
- 4:58steal by land in Palestine for Jews to settle on at all the Jews.
- 5:04And then of course there's the Jewish Agency, which is a mechanism to try
- 5:10and secure Jews from outside Palestine and move them to settle to become settler colonists
- 5:15in Palestine. And then there of course is not the third organization which makes
- 5:19up the four organizations which are at the head of the Zionist movement, the
- 5:23Karen Hazod, which was devoted to providing the money for doing all those tasks.
- 5:30There's four organizations which are at the peak of the Zionist organization, a
- 5:33World Zionist Organization and the Zionist Movement. And they then have affiliate organizations in
- 5:39every country in which the Zionist movement is organized. So in order for it
- 5:45to be a Jewish state, they created this thing called the movement. They
- 5:49created the Jewish state, and then they decided, well, what should we
- 5:53do? Should we should we dissolve the Zionist movement or shall we keep it
- 5:58going? And of course what they just i to do, as everybody knows,
- 6:00but nobody says, is that they decided to keep it going. And
- 6:03all of these organizations have been mentioning still exist. In fact, the headquarters
- 6:10of these organizations, the four organizations I mentioned are all in the same building
- 6:15in King David Street in Jerusalem, which they call National Institution's House, indicating
- 6:20that these are the national institutions of the so called State of Israel. And
- 6:25of course they have the branches everywhere else. In the UK, there is
- 6:29a Jewish National Fund UK which is the you know, the branch, the
- 6:33UK branch of the Global Jewish National Fund headquartered in Jerusalem. There is the
- 6:42Office for the Jewish Agency. There is an organization called the United Jewish Israel
- 6:46Appeal, which is the fund raising organization which is the equivalent, which is
- 6:50the UK branch of the Karen Hazard. And of course there is a Zionist
- 6:55Federation which is the formal UK affiliate of the World Zionist Organization, and it
- 7:00has amongst its members some forty other formally Zionist organizations. Now that all of
- 7:06that will give you I tried to be short with my description of it.
- 7:10All of that it's formal Zionist movement, which all of which is are formally
- 7:15linked to the World Zionist Organization by membership. Now if you look at me,
- 7:19Shannon and Walls, but none of that's in there, it simply doesn't
- 7:24appear. Now why is that important? Well, it's important because they they
- 7:28these parts of the Zionist movement which are of course ally with them, work
- 7:31directly with the so called Israel Lobby, are also engaged in pursuing other functions.
- 7:36Now I've already mentioned what those functions are, stealing the Palestine land,
- 7:41settling people on that land, providing the money to do it. But they,
- 7:45but they, but it's part of that. They have to do a
- 7:46range of other things in the countries outside Palestine where they operate. And amongst
- 7:53the things that they have to do is that they have to radicalize Jewish children
- 7:57into believing that they have what they call a birthright to live on stone land
- 8:03in Palestine. So that's why they have a whole range of institutions to do
- 8:07that. They have nurseries, yes, nurseries that are Zionists schools in the
- 8:11UK that Jewish schools, many of them openly identify as being zions schools.
- 8:18Truly incredible, should be illegal and it doesn't happen for any other religion,
- 8:22but that's the truth. And then they have a whole range of youth groups.
- 8:28They have left wing ZIONUS youth groups and right wing ZIONUS youth groups and
- 8:31religious ZIONUS youth groups, and these are there to again to indoctrinate Jewish kids
- 8:37into believe in that they've got a right to Palestine and that Palestinians are subhuman,
- 8:41and they of course take the kids off to their first trips, usually
- 8:46to Occupy Palestine when they're really quite young, I mean seven, eight,
- 8:50nine, ten, The kids go on free trips to occupy Palestine and the
- 8:56purposes of course to indoctrinate them. And then of course later on they have
- 9:00have Zionist student groups. The Union of Jeish Students KABAD on Campus, CAMERA
- 9:07on campus stand with US has activities on campus, a whole range of different
- 9:13Zionist student groups, again which offer free trips to occupied Palestine and which also
- 9:20provide a mechanism for students for young kids, young Jewish kids, to be
- 9:26both indoctrinated and recruited into roles in occupied Palistine either as settlers or even more
- 9:33worryingly, as members of the occupation forces. And that's that. That's provided.
- 9:37Those routes are provided by h the Union of Jewish Students, for example,
- 9:41which sounds on the surface just like a student body for for Jewish kids,
- 9:46it's not. It's a it's a it's a genocidal Zionist organization. So
- 9:50that's the other functions of the Zionist movement which are not really part of what
- 9:56you would call the Israel lobby. So there's that the Israel lobby part of
- 10:00the science movement, but the science movement is quite a lot bigger than that,
- 10:03and we have to understand that because there's such a lot more going on
- 10:07than just the question of Israel lobby. And so that's quite an incredible description
- 10:11that David has just given of an organization that the vast majority of people have
- 10:16no concept of the skill of. Yeah, and I think what's kind of
- 10:22fascinating is the description that David has given is also very focused on, as
- 10:31you said, Jewish youth that can have this kind of aura of credibility and
- 10:37acceptability. But to what extent, I guess we have to look at to
- 10:43what extent that bleeds out from those Jewish movements into sectors of UK. We're
- 10:50focusing on UK, but also US society. To what extent does that and
- 10:56then influence the thinking within UK society regarding the Palestinian issue or regarding the history
- 11:05of the Palestinian issue. Yes, David, something that you said there that
- 11:13I wanted to get some more thoughts on was you said that no other religious
- 11:18group has this kind of infrastructure with respect to schools and so on. What
- 11:24is the situation, because lots of people in the UK will be looking at
- 11:28the Islamic community in the UK and saying, well, they've got their own
- 11:33courts and they've got their own educational establishments of some kinds, but what's the
- 11:37relative skill of the infrastructure there. So I mean the difference, of course
- 11:43is that under UK law, it's perfectly permission to have faith schools, to
- 11:48have Muslim schools, Jewish schools, Hindu schools, Sikh schools, and of
- 11:54course Catholic and Protestant schools. I mean, I went to what was called
- 11:56in Scotland when I was a kid, a non denominee school, which people
- 12:01think means any kind of Christian, but no it's not. It's any kind
- 12:03of Protestant. And so you know, even though though these are sort of
- 12:07secular schools in a way, there's still religious schools in some respects. And
- 12:11but of course that's that's the law in the UK. But when we talk
- 12:13about Zionist schools, we're not talking about teaching Judaism or observance of Judaism or
- 12:20any other examples of other religions. We're talking about commitment to a specific political
- 12:24ideology. Now, if we had schools in the UK which claim to be
- 12:28sell Aphist or what habits, then we would people would have an issue with
- 12:33that. They would say, that's not right, that's not that's a particular
- 12:37kind of Islam, which is a political movement. Obviously, yes, that's
- 12:39right. But we have got zion schools now in the case of the UK
- 12:43that I think are one hundred and seventy Jewish schools in the country. I
- 12:48don't know how many of those are are vowedly Zist. It's very difficult to
- 12:52tell, but there are current number which are a vowedly scientist. A number
- 12:54have been set up by, for example, the United Synagogue, which is
- 13:00a synagogue movement which again is a vowedly Zionist. So you see the way
- 13:03in which this works that there's as a process by what, by where?
- 13:07Where? Why the idea of something being Zionis is represented as being completely normal
- 13:13and this is whatever wherevery do you thinks? And of course we know that's
- 13:16not true, but that's how they represent it. And this has been allowed
- 13:18in our society to flourish as something which is normal and which people don't even
- 13:24you know, conceive of it is actually happening so there's about one hundred and
- 13:28seventy of these schools. But what the other thing I would say is that
- 13:31when you say people don't have any real idea about this, I think that's
- 13:37true. But it's the scale of it is way larger than I've already described
- 13:41what I've described as effectively the core of the Zionist movement. And Vanessa was
- 13:46talking here about how it bleeds into the rest of the society, and I
- 13:50think that's a really, very very important question. If I made me say
- 13:54a couple of things about how I think that happens, and then we can
- 13:56get into particular details. So obviously there are those elements of the lobby which
- 14:03are attempting to to persuade, bully, intimidate, in doctrinate or pay for
- 14:11other parts of the society to do what they want. And the most obvious
- 14:15place that happens, of course, is in Parliament, where as we see
- 14:18today, the election is happening today. I don't know for broadcasting this today,
- 14:22but the election is on today, and there are some one hundred and
- 14:26seventy or one hundred and eighty MPs currently in Parliament, although they're you know,
- 14:31they're not technically in Parliament anymore, who have taken money from the the
- 14:37Israel lobby, mostly of course from labor friends of Israel and conservative friends of
- 14:43Israel, but also from particular zion and store is like Trevor Chen who has
- 14:48been the effective head of the Zionist movement in the UK for some twenty or
- 14:52thirty years, and many other zion storess whose names have been banging about on
- 14:58Twitter or x in the last a few weeks. And that the people who
- 15:01are who are in receipt of this money are largely not Jewish, and they
- 15:05quite often can become what you might what might be called careers Zionists, so
- 15:11they're recruited usually at a young age when they're at university. So the Jewish
- 15:16Zionists are recruited effectively at primary secondary school, whereas the non Jewish careers Zionists
- 15:22tend to be recruited through the National Union Students and through the student movement.
- 15:26And you can see examples of these are all over political life. Luke ay
- 15:31Curse is a very famous one who's standing for the seat in North Durham.
- 15:37John Woodcock, Lord Walneys is called now the government's advisor and extremism. John
- 15:43Mann again, another government advisor who's now in the Lords, and the whole
- 15:48range of others Joan Ryan, for example, who was the head of Liberal
- 15:54Friends, which all non Jewish careers Zionists who are inculcated into the ideology.
- 15:58It was when the help of money say yes quite often, not always.
- 16:02I mean, Luk A. Kirsten appears as not I mean, obviously he's
- 16:06a he works full time for the Israel Lobby and is paid by the Israel
- 16:10Lobby for his work. But I mean he's a famous clip of him on
- 16:14on Twitter where he says, you know, I often wondered why they didn't
- 16:18take me to Israel in a free trip, and he says that Jeremy Newmark
- 16:22of the JLSA said said JLC said to him, but we didn't need to
- 16:25take you, that you were already convinced. We only wanted to take the
- 16:26people who we needed to convince. And how it works, right, So
- 16:32there's the careers Iionists, and that of course is a very important way in
- 16:33which Zionis ideas trickle out into the body politic and other parts of society.
- 16:40But then there's a whole series of other activities. So I mean I would
- 16:44put under one umbrella, for example, intelligence activities, so you know,
- 16:48obviously the most carries out activities here, and it was charged in the nineteen
- 16:52eighties, for example, of the idea that anti Semitism and antisionism were the
- 16:56same, and it was in charge of a process has led to and it
- 17:00eventually became the International Holocaust Members Alliance Definition Working Definition of Anti Semitism, lodged
- 17:07at the IHRA in twenty sixteen and used as the main weapon against Gremy Corbin
- 17:11and against indeed all the Propolestline movement all over the world. The intelligence operation
- 17:18of Mossad is really quite interesting and sophisticated, and people don't really have any
- 17:23conception of that, and I can tell you some details of that actually want
- 17:26to. But the other element of the intelligence operation is especially associated with Unit
- 17:33eight to zero zero, which is the signals intelligence unit of the Israeli military
- 17:38and the equivalent of GCHQ in the UK or the National Security Agency in the
- 17:45US. And one of its strategies in the last twenty years has been to
- 17:49invest heavily in its staff or x staff doing tech startups, so that for
- 17:56example, in the UK, there are something like four hundred is really X
- 18:00startups. Now, these people are people who are engaged in contracts and all
- 18:07sorts of tech work which brings them into contact with agencies in the British government
- 18:14and with other data which is which might have a potential use to Israeli intelligence.
- 18:19Now we don't have clear evidence of the way that that has been directly
- 18:26used by theysually regime, but it's perfectly but parent that there are many Israeli
- 18:32companies stuffed full of X units. It to zero zero veterans who are working
- 18:37directly in contracts where they have access to data which is of national security importance,
- 18:44for example with the Foreign Office, where of course the two major and
- 18:48other intelligence agencies in the UK based with the Ministry of Defense, with the
- 18:52National Health Service, et cetera. And that's of course in addition to all
- 18:56of the tech firms who have access to who are who are selling hacking software.
- 19:03The the NSL group, of course famously advised by Cherie Blair, celebrate
- 19:10a whole range of other companies which we've discussed and exposed on our show Palastandy
- 19:15Classified. And that's a really very important element of what you might call a
- 19:18broader zion this movement, which is really intelligence operations in this country which are
- 19:25having a significant effect. And so that so there's the career of Zionists,
- 19:29there's the is really intelligence operatives. And then of course there's a way in
- 19:33which this recruitment or into the Zionist ideology then works its way through the political
- 19:41system so that people who well not just the political system but the economic,
- 19:45political and cultural system of this country, so that later on people who have
- 19:48gone through that training end up in significant positions in for example, politics,
- 19:55in government, in whitehall, civil servants, in economics and in fine and
- 20:00indeed in the cultural industries as well. And that of course has helped along
- 20:03by the fact that the Jews are overrepresented in relation to their head their their
- 20:11per head of population in the UK, and they did in the US and
- 20:14other places too, in economics, in politics and journalism, in the civil
- 20:22service. In fact, Jews of massive and of course comparatively Muslims are by
- 20:30far the worst in terms of their representation in the population. Of the British
- 20:34population has zero point five Jews and it has six point five percent Muslims.
- 20:41And so you can see that that when you come to look at the figures
- 20:44that the hugest parity there is there. So there's a kind of advantage which
- 20:48which Jews have because of historical processes or whatever is the reason which means that
- 20:55these zions ideas because of course both Jews overwhelmingly are Zionists. We don't know
- 21:00exact figures, it depends how you count them, but between sixty and and
- 21:04ninety five percent the ultra Zionist would say ninety five percent, probably somewhere in
- 21:10between. So when you have a bad glass duties are by and large average
- 21:18wealthier to have higher take home pay than does anyone else, including white people,
- 21:25then what you have is an advantaged a level of access to decision making
- 21:29for Zionists. And that's what you find time and again. That's partly why
- 21:33you find, for example, in the national security and extremism field, neo
- 21:40conservative institutions with a high proportion of people who are from a Jewish science background
- 21:47pushing forward policies in the UK which are in whose interest, which is in
- 21:55Israel's interest as opposed necessarily just clearly British Brittish imperial interests. However, one
- 22:00might want to categorize them so that that's part of the other element of the
- 22:07power of the Zionis is that is the is this threading through the fabric of
- 22:11society of people who have our what should we say, genocide ideology, fundamentally
- 22:17racist genocide ideology, who are not fit to be in public service, any
- 22:22of them. But nevertheless, we don't have any yet, any real language
- 22:26or or a way of discussing that or thinking about that which could lead to
- 22:30a process of deiradicalization, Desionization, and the dismantling of the Zionist movement,
- 22:37which which we clearly have to do since it's uh shows most science have wanted
- 22:41to to make nice with the Palestinians or indeed with anyone else. Vanessa,
- 22:48any comments or thoughts on that or questions, No, I mean, I
- 22:52think you know, the more that David and I have talked a partners,
- 22:56the more you look into it, the more horrifying it actually is, the
- 23:00extent to which their reach or the reach of the Zionist movement has expanded into
- 23:06every single sector we're focusing on British society. I mean, I keep telling
- 23:11people look at the twenty to thirty roadmap between Israel and the UK to fully
- 23:15understand the extent of reach that the Zionists have in every single sector of British
- 23:23society. And I guess, really, what maybe we need to help people
- 23:29understand because you know, they may still be saying, well, okay,
- 23:33but you know you can just say this is a tech development partnership. How
- 23:38is this going to affect the ordinary person in the UK in the future.
- 23:45I mean, for me, it's clear we're being actually infiltrated by as David
- 23:51described it, it's a genocidal, supremacist, racist ideology that is incentivizing those
- 23:59that control all the decisions that affect our life into either believing in that ideology
- 24:07or at least supporting it for their own gain. Let's say so, I
- 24:14guess for me, it's an important thing for people to fully understand to what
- 24:18extent this is going to affect us. Well, not me, I'm in
- 24:23Syria, but I mean the ordinary person in the UK. Let me ask
- 24:30you this question and then and then we'll get David's thoughts on it if we
- 24:33could. What what are we looking at here? Are we looking at Israel
- 24:37as a British project? And in fact, the entire Zionist movement is an
- 24:47out growth of British imperialism, or are we looking at a British project which
- 24:55is effectively gone, rogan is starting to take over British institutions again. Well,
- 25:00you know, I think that's a kind of a circular discussion question because
- 25:06it's a very difficult one to answer. I tend to see it that Israel
- 25:11was a settler colonial project that was basically sorry, the electricity just came back
- 25:18on, that was kind of midwide by the British, but the British were
- 25:23heavily incentivized to do so. Then obviously, the entire movement has to a
- 25:30large degree been adopted by the United States to further its own neocolonialist agenda in
- 25:37the region. And to me sometimes it appears that it was Britain's Frankenstein that
- 25:45has turned into an uncontrollable monster, and that the monster to some degree now
- 25:52is consuming the society that created it in the first place. That's to a
- 25:59lot just agree how I do say it. But at the same time I
- 26:03can flip it and say that the ideology of the Zionists is not far from
- 26:11the British imperialist ideology. Also, so as I said, it's it's a
- 26:15very sort of I'd be really interested in David's point of view on this.
- 26:19Okay, So I mean I think that when you when you ask these kind
- 26:22of questions, I mean, people tend to ask these questions just in relation
- 26:26to Palestine or the influence of science. But I think, you know,
- 26:32let's look at the parallels. First of all, what are the parallels that
- 26:34happened in other settle of cloneal situations. I think I'm thinking of Algeria,
- 26:40or South Africa, of Northern Ireland, Rhodesia, and now of course called
- 26:45Zimbabwe, and let's that was Zimbabwe. I mean, let's remember Ian Smith
- 26:51declared UDI from Britain uh Universal Declaration of Independence. And of course that's an
- 26:59indicator, isn't it that settlers can go rogue. And indeed, I don't
- 27:03go further than that. I would say that settlers always go rogue. It's
- 27:07the condition of settlers to have separate interests in the than the metropolis. And
- 27:12that was the case with they are in jorder and the loyalists in the North
- 27:15of Ireland remains the case. That was the case with the Peede noir in
- 27:19France. In Algeria, it was the case with the Bores and indeed with
- 27:25the white settlers in South Africa, and it's the case in person. So
- 27:27that's that's the first thing to say that they always go ro. That's that's
- 27:32kind of that's in the dna of the settler, because a settler colonial situation
- 27:37has its own material circumstances. But I get a lot of stuff from from
- 27:41socialist groups. We'll say, oh, you don't understand the material relations.
- 27:45And I would say, and they want because they want me to talk about
- 27:47class and say, well, of course, the solution to its real palestine
- 27:49is is a socialist revolution in the whole West Asia. And I say,
- 27:52well, guys, it's not only about the settler. Colonialism has its own
- 27:57material basis, and that in the base say that the interest of the settlers
- 28:00diverged from the interests of the metropolis. It's perfectly clear. But that's always
- 28:03what happens. But let's let's come to the exactly the precise example. So,
- 28:11yes, it was a British project. Yes, there was a lot
- 28:15that was lobbying to set that British project up from the Zionist movement, and
- 28:18of course the land Pappy's new book on this is out now and you can
- 28:21all go and read that, and you can talk about the extent of which
- 28:23you know, the Christian Zionists form the Jewish Danists and jack Jewish Sionism and
- 28:30all those kind of questions. But I think that that's a longer debate.
- 28:33Let's not have that now. But what you see with the creation of the
- 28:38state of Israel is that is an almost immediate diversion, that divergence, don't
- 28:42you, between the interests of colonial Britain and the interests of the settler colonists.
- 28:48And that's why, of course the Higana and indeed the Leffy, the
- 28:52Stern Gang and the Argon started to kill British soldiers and hang them with piano
- 29:00piano war, and we we trapped their bodies and bombed the Colonial Club in
- 29:03London and excavate a copy of Shakespeare's plays and send it as the first ever
- 29:08book bomb in the history of terrorism to the brother by mistake of a British
- 29:14serviceman. And that divergence was already happening then. And when those when those
- 29:18two soldiers are strung up with piano war, there were what is called anti
- 29:22Jewish riots in this country, in Glasgow, in in in fact in the
- 29:29Gurbels in Glasgow, in the area where my dad dad at that stage lived,
- 29:32where there was the Jewish population mainly lived in the goobles. Then they
- 29:36moved out later, of course, uh and and so you see that divergence.
- 29:41Now, the diversions didn't it wasn't necessarily fundamental divergence, but it did
- 29:45mark the views of the ruling class in this country quite notably. That's why,
- 29:52of course Margaret Thatcher famously refused to shake when Afaim Began's hand when he
- 29:56came to visit uh Downing Street, because he was, in her view,
- 30:00a terrorist. And that's These are real things that happened at divergence. But
- 30:07the divergence didn't What wasn't a straightforward process. It didn't proceed in one direction.
- 30:12Let's remember nineteen fifty six the British collaborated in secret with the French and
- 30:18Desionists to invade Suits when and and of course that was a dibacco heralding the
- 30:26end of British imperialism, or the British impart to a large degree. But
- 30:32then when we come up later we see that there have been continued divergences.
- 30:37Although the u UK and the US have been supportive of Israel at the US.
- 30:41More so, that's not stopped Mossad from operating against Britain and against the
- 30:48interests of Britain. So, for example, when the Mossad ran an operation
- 30:52using Palestinian informers to execute Nagilali, the famous Pelstonian cartoonist who's famous for Handela
- 31:03the Young the we cartoon boy, he was executed in Kensington in nineteen eighty
- 31:08seven, and Thatcher shut down the Mossad settle in London expelled them all.
- 31:15Now, who would have thought that that a person of the kind of politics
- 31:21of mart Thatcher would have done that. Of course, even later on when
- 31:26David Milliband was Foreign Sextrey in the famous incident where the Mossad used forged passports
- 31:33fake passport British passports to execute a Custom Brigades commander in Dubai and David Milliband
- 31:41expelled. David Milliband, you know, as Zionist, expelled that Mossad as
- 31:47a result of that. So you can see that there are ways in which
- 31:48their interests are not always similar and sometimes diverge. And even that started really
- 31:53very very early. I mean, Mossad had an agent inside the National Security
- 31:59Council of in the late nineteen forties, and this was discovered by I think
- 32:05by m I five, and the person was removed and the five files now
- 32:09declassified, where the MI five case officer writes up the notes says, oh,
- 32:14now we understand that that is hostile power in nineteen okay. So this
- 32:21is not a straightforward thing, and that that hostility that there was between the
- 32:24security establishment and the Zionists has dissipated, yes, to some extent, but
- 32:30it hasn't meant that Zionists aren't targeting this country to pursue the interests of Zionism.
- 32:35Right, let me finish. I'm sorry I've been going on a bit
- 32:37long, but it's necessary, I think, to talk about some of these
- 32:38issues. So what does that mean now? Well, I think Vanessa's phrase
- 32:44that going rogue is very apt. I mean, what we see with the
- 32:46Zionist project is not just an attempt to get a home lan for the Jews
- 32:51and then they'll be happy and then everything can go back to normal, as
- 32:53if that could have happened after that, et cetera. But I imagine that
- 32:59could have happened. That's that's not what they want. They want regional hegemony,
- 33:01and they want to do that through the pursuit of Israel to take as
- 33:07Manak and Big and talked about it in the late nineteen sixties, ear in
- 33:10the nineteen seventies, to take Egypt and part of Lebanon and the West Bank
- 33:16and part of Jordan, et cetera, ctera. And of course what they
- 33:19want is a wider higemony where they will have a greater Israel, and they
- 33:22will become to some extent they already are an imperialist power in their own right.
- 33:30And I think that's one thing which people on the left who want to
- 33:32say tail doesn't like the dog, don't appreciate that. You know that there
- 33:37was a time when Britain was the unrivaled global hegaon and that's not the case
- 33:42anymore. So how did that happen? There's a historical process whereby Hegews replace
- 33:47each other in the kind of Western process where there's been the UK and in
- 33:52the US and the Israel is trying to become a junior imperial power of its
- 33:58own and of course, in the context of of bricks and multiplarity, that's
- 34:02unlikely to be successful, but that's their aim, and so I think we
- 34:07should start to think about this idea that the Teal doesn't work with dog,
- 34:10that they must be doing what the Americans want. It's not correct. I
- 34:15mean, as we've said, settlers always go rogue, and they and there
- 34:20have been few if I might say this, as rogue as as Zionists.
- 34:23Yeah, I mean I'd like to I'd like to come back on the early
- 34:28two hundred in a few minutes. But before do that, David, what
- 34:31I may have asked you this the last time we spoke, but I'd like
- 34:36to cover it again. If we didn't cover it, if we have covered
- 34:38it before, and that is, how did we get what was the process
- 34:42of getting from the point where we had the you know, Massad being expelled
- 34:46by Thatcher and Labad? How do we get from that point to the point
- 34:50that we are today, where the British government is, you know, totally
- 34:54in bed with Zionism. Well, I would say that they're not to necessarily
- 35:00totally imbent. There are still elements of the security establishment who are skeptical.
- 35:06I mean, I don't know them personally, I couldn't give you their names,
- 35:08but I'm convinced that they're you know, they don't speak to me much.
- 35:14But I'm convinst that they are. But they're certainly not the dominant fraction
- 35:19of the security establishment. How do we get that? Well, I think
- 35:21we got there by I mean there was a process whereby if you look back
- 35:28at the way in which we now think about political violence, where for political
- 35:34elites in this country, in almost every other Western country, the main threat
- 35:38that we face in terms of political violence is Islamic extremism and Islamic terrorism or
- 35:45Islamism, a word which is simply invented in or a new use. A
- 35:50new meaning of it was invented in about nineteen seventy nine nineteen eighty. The
- 35:54term Islamist in English had never been used before in the history of the English
- 36:00language. Term Islamism used to mean someone who studies Islam, but now it
- 36:05means someone who is an advocate of political Islam, which is a uniquely and
- 36:10necessarily awful kind threat to civilization, etcetera. Even if it's the case that
- 36:16in certain circumstances Brutish and American intelligence might want to use Islamists to pursue their
- 36:23own foreign policy agendas, such as as as vaneszaa is only too well in
- 36:30Damascus, in Libya, et cetera, in other places. But let's moave
- 36:35that to us, saye for one minute. So where did these terms come
- 36:37from? Why do we have the term Islamist? Where does the idea of
- 36:43Islamic terrorism come from? And it may or may not surprise you to know
- 36:49that they come from, effectively, with a little bit of help from the
- 36:52CIA. They come from Zionist intellectuals and from the Zionist movement. And let
- 36:57me tell you exactly the term is Limbist is invented essentially by some writers,
- 37:06some Zionist writers, Bernard Lewis, for example, his mentee Martin Kramer,
- 37:14the so called gang of four of Islamophobic Prosionist scholars who are around with And
- 37:21you can chart the way in which is this term has been news. We've
- 37:23got a page on our website power based on the term Islamism Islamist, and
- 37:29you can see exactly who started using it when. Of course, there were
- 37:31some French scholars who started to use it around about seventy nine eighty in relation
- 37:37to Afghanistan, in relation to the Muslim brotherhood in Egypt, and relation to
- 37:40other areas as well. And some of those French scholars, it transpires,
- 37:45had some sort of relationship with the CIA, but it's largely from Zionist scholars,
- 37:52and in particular, I mean they almost almost almost really incredible. Single
- 38:00point of origin of both the question of Islamism and Islamist and indeed Islamic terrorism
- 38:05is a conference held in Washington, d C. In nineteen eighty four,
- 38:09towards the end of the first regal, the Rigan presidency, and it was
- 38:16organized by a think tank called the Jonathan Institute, named after the brother of
- 38:23Benjamin Netanyah who and who rather conferenced benjaminaw who himself he edited the book which
- 38:30came out of it. And it was there that had a previous conference in
- 38:31seventy nine in Jerusalem where the term Islamic terrorism wasn't really used. There was
- 38:37a very very brief discussion of it, like a tiny paragraph of one of
- 38:43the contributions. In eighty four, you have a whole panel on Islamic terrorism
- 38:47chaired by Bernard Lewis and the other three members of the Gang of four forget
- 38:52their names exactly, but each one of them more islamor for than the last.
- 38:57And that's where the term comes from. And you can see again it's
- 39:00on the website the way in which the term Islamic terrorism replaces or Islamic or
- 39:06islam Is terrorism in books in English. On that you can do a Google
- 39:09end gram on this. Anyone can check out the data replaces other sorts of
- 39:14terms. So the term communist terrorism is a term which is used quite regularly
- 39:19in books in English from about nineteen forty four, starting I would guess with
- 39:23the operation in Grease against the left in Greece, and communis terrorism becomes a
- 39:31term which falls out of use in around about nineteen seventy five nineteen eighty,
- 39:37at which point the term Irish terrorism becomes much more important. Now then in
- 39:43the graph they sort of flow along and they replace each other. But by
- 39:45the time you get to the nineteen nineties, the term is limits terrorism and
- 39:50Islamic terrorism really massively take off from books and English, and you're seeing a
- 39:53change in the way in which we think about postal violence. And that change
- 39:57comes not straightforward, not by a decreeving issued by then Israeli government, but
- 40:05by a process whereby the zion is conquered the national security infrastructure of the US
- 40:10and the UK. And that's why we have today, the kinds of policies
- 40:14we have on extremism. That's why we have someone like Lord Walney doing his
- 40:17Extremism review just the other day. I mean he's a career Zionist. Or
- 40:22why we have the center for what's it called, the Commission for Counting Extremism.
- 40:28That's why we have Michael Gove. That's where we have the New Extremism
- 40:30Policy. I'll finished on that, the New Extremism Policy introduced by Michael Gove.
- 40:35Just a couple of months ago. We did a show on this and
- 40:37where does it come from? Well, it starts off life as a report
- 40:43by the Policy Exchange set up by Michael Gove, and then the findings from
- 40:49this are taken up by the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism and Extremism, who is
- 40:52a guy called Lord Showcross, who takes up the post from his other posts,
- 40:57it's previous post at the Policy Exchange, and then he gives the report
- 41:00to Michael Gove Aloso Exchange, who introduces the more or less straight into into
- 41:07law. That's how it works. This is a and who who is at
- 41:09the funds of Policy Exchange. Big surprise, it's Zionus family foundations and these
- 41:15are the main funders of the of the Policy Exchange, especially it's work on
- 41:19Islam, just like it's the main funders of the Henry Jackson Society. So
- 41:22what we see here is a process which you operates, you know, below
- 41:27everyone's sightline, out of radar contact, but which nevertheless, when you look
- 41:31at it actually occurs. Okay, that that that that is spectacular. I
- 41:39was gonna go and spit on the eighty two hundred at this point, but
- 41:43before we do it, because this raises another question for you, David,
- 41:46and that is, if we if we look at so called right wing extremism,
- 41:53so called white nationalism, and we go back to the nineteen eighties,
- 42:00in the nineteen nineties, even in the early two thousands, anti Semitism was
- 42:08a part of that, you know, in however you define anti semitism,
- 42:13that was a part of that. And and somehow the right wing has fallen
- 42:20in love with Zionism. And I'd be interested if you've got any insight into
- 42:23the process by which that happened, and that was it lenked to what we
- 42:28just discussed with respective government. I mean, this is the thing when you
- 42:34start to look at this stuff. I mean, I mean, I like
- 42:36to say this because I'm sure it annoys the Zionist But you know, if
- 42:38I hadn't been sacked by the Bristol and being able to spend almost all of
- 42:44my time investigating Zionism, I would never have found out half of this stuff.
- 42:49But when you start to look, when you start to look at it's
- 42:52too extraordinary. I really had no idea of the kind of length, the
- 42:54kind of the range, and the depth the power of the zions group.
- 43:00I really had no idea. I was really I mean you know that.
- 43:02I mean I talked about the Zionist group with quite a lot, but I
- 43:06was only in the foothills of understanding. I believe I still am. So
- 43:09how does this happen? Yes, the right across the whole of the European
- 43:15and abandons antisemitism. Anti Semitism disappears really as a form of racism in this
- 43:22period. And they tested take up Zionism with me Tommy Robinson, and she
- 43:30had Builders and all of the rest of them who become Judeo files who become
- 43:37pro Zionists, not all of them, but quite a lot of them.
- 43:39And that's significant, and I think that's part of the reason why we see
- 43:43the decline in more or less extinction of anti Semitism as a form of racism
- 43:49in the UK today. And I got criticized for saying this by a number
- 43:52of people who left, including the SWP, who's only come back was to
- 43:55say, but look, look, Victor Robin and hungry and I I give
- 44:00you the point, right, you could have that point. But where is
- 44:02as you said, as a form of racism in Britain today, where Jews
- 44:07are racialized, where the physiognomy is discussed, where they're inherent greed and all
- 44:13of the things which are associated with the racialization of Jews doesn't exist anymore.
- 44:16And part of the reason for that, I think is that the society has
- 44:22moved on and that they and I would say, you know, if you
- 44:25look at the definitions of racism in the dictionary, all the definitions have some
- 44:30reference to the fact that to be racism, it has to be structural,
- 44:34it has to be institutional. There has to be for our structure. And
- 44:37you know, the forms of racism we find in society today are racism against
- 44:39Muslims, against black people. Yes, of course, as has been the
- 44:44case for many years in the seventies and eighties, racism against the Irish,
- 44:47and that's because these were state directed projects threated by the police, the counter
- 44:51intelligence, the count insurgency industry, the counter terrorism establishment. But the thing
- 45:00I found more surprising is to look at the way in which the anti racist
- 45:05movement in this country developed. So for most of the period since the nineteen
- 45:13forties, the anti racist movement has focused by and large on the question of
- 45:17anti fascism when it's dealing with racism, and that, of course has been
- 45:22a way of saying that the main problem, even if people didn't believe this,
- 45:27the main problem of racism in this country is fascism, and actually it's
- 45:30not. The main problem in racism in this country is racism against black people
- 45:35and Muslims, directed by enacted by largely the state. Yes, of course
- 45:39we've got people on the streets and the street armies, et cetera. But
- 45:43this is the state which does that. And I think the focusing of the
- 45:50attention on anti fascism allowed there also to be a sort of solidarity of anti
- 45:55racisms encompassing the Jews as well. But of course that was done at a
- 46:00price, and the price was that we didn't focus on the main forms of
- 46:05racism. We didn't focus on institutional racism. There's only really been one major
- 46:10anti racist organization in this country as far as im where the Anti Racist Alliance
- 46:15led by Mark Wadsworth, which had focused which focused on institutional racism and state
- 46:21racism, which of course are the main the main types, and that part
- 46:23of the reason for that is the influence of the Zionist movement on the anti
- 46:28racist movement. That sounds like an extraordinary thing to say. Let me just
- 46:31give you a couple of examples. So one of the earliest anti racists,
- 46:36anti fascist groups in this country was a the UH, the forty three group,
- 46:42which is a group of largely Jewish ex servicemen coming back from the Second
- 46:47World War determined to fight fascism in Britain. Large numbers of them were communists,
- 46:52members of the Communist Party of Great Britain specifically UH, and they fought
- 46:55fascism on the streets of London. There's a documentary, sorry drama called Ridley
- 47:00Road by the BBC on it. I did a review of it. But
- 47:04what's unbelievable was unbelievable when I started to research that was that actually what was
- 47:09going on here was was that that although they tried to keep Zionism out of
- 47:14the organization, it was it was and became a Zionist organization, and such
- 47:19such that not only did it allow its members to join the Nagba and to
- 47:23fight with the Hagana and indeed with the Argon at the starting gang, but
- 47:29it also on block affiliated to the Argon in nineteen forty eight. So this
- 47:37this anti fascist group was affiliated to the ergon the Revision as sign is terrorist
- 47:43organization. And that when I started to realize that, I started to trace
- 47:46through all the other groups which came out of that. So the sixty two
- 47:50group, the Group Relations, Educational Trust, Jacob et cetera, et cetera,
- 47:55the same people were on a search Light, same people were all in
- 47:58these organizations. They they set up a whole range of other groups, which
- 48:02I think it's fair to call Zionist anti racist groups, and so in particular
- 48:08search Light that it was headed by a guy called Jerry Gable who was the
- 48:14director of intelligence for the sixty two group, and his director of finance in
- 48:17the sixty two group was a guy called Gerald Ronson, who, of course
- 48:21the famous Guinness fraudster who went on to set up the Community Security Trust the
- 48:25key organization in this country blurring the distinction between anti Semitism and anti science.
- 48:30And so that we have a whole trajectory of Zionist organizations and the trajectory from
- 48:36search Light, which was very close to British Intelligence and the special branch is
- 48:39that they set up in our organization out of search Light called Hope Not Hate
- 48:44currently found a sabotage alternative candidates in the British election, including from especially on
- 48:50the left. So that's the whole trajectory of Zionist groups. And sorry started
- 48:55to go on, but just briefly, then, how does that affect the
- 48:58other anti racist groups that people will know about, the Rock Against Racism,
- 49:05Anti Nazi League, Against Fascism, Stand Up to Racism. Well, I
- 49:08would say how it affects them is that these groups were compromised by having relationships
- 49:14with and indeed having on their governing boards people from the Zionis organizations. So
- 49:20for example, search Light had two people Jerry Gable and another guy from such
- 49:25Light on the board of the Anti National League from the beginning, and that
- 49:30of course meant that they they want they didn't want to focus on structural racism.
- 49:34They didn't want to focus on questions. They wanted to focus instead of
- 49:37anti fascism, which was not even then the main threat that people of color
- 49:43faced in this country. And so that I think is part of an explanation
- 49:47for the question you've got. And there's one more thing I would say,
- 49:51which is that these far right groups which became which abandoned anti Semitism and took
- 49:57up Islamophobia, it wasn't just that they did that because that's what the state
- 50:00was doing. It's also because it's what the Zionists were doing and what the
- 50:04Zionists wanted them to do. So when you look at the the you know
- 50:07who is at the funds Sharfielders in the Netherlands, who is at the funds
- 50:12has funded Tommy Robinson, Stephen the actually Lennon who is it? The funded
- 50:16Katie Hopkins. And when you look you see it's the Middle East Forum in
- 50:23the US, or it's the Shieldman Foundation, or it's the David Horror Fitz
- 50:28Freedom Center, of which are It's like, yes, is lamophobic organizations funded
- 50:32by the Zionists. And that's that's truly mind bloy when you start to realize
- 50:37that the far right, it's being bankrolled by the Zionist movement as well,
- 50:40and people will have no idea of that. Really. Wow, well yeah,
- 50:49I'm speechless. I think David, please write a book very soon because
- 50:54this information is kind of I mean, like you said, I am very
- 50:59much at the foothill. You've just possibly elevated me considerably higher just in one
- 51:06hour. Please write a book as soon as possible, because this is so
- 51:10important for people to understand how they're being manipulated by the Zionist movement. It's
- 51:19extraordinary. Okay, Well, well, look we're running at a time,
- 51:24but let's before we go, let's talk a little bit more about unid Eity
- 51:29two hundred because, as you said, David, Vanessa and I have covered
- 51:31this in recent weeks on the UK column News. It's well my point about
- 51:38this has been, you know, we have seen the British establishment banning Huawei,
- 51:46for example, from taking part in commercial activities in the UK because of
- 51:52the risk the national security of Huawei, telecoms kit on five G networks and
- 52:00telecoms networks. At the same time, we have you know, Unit fifty
- 52:06two hundred back or eighty two hundred packed organizations. We've got checkpoint we've got
- 52:10a home, We've got Juniper Network, bunch of networks organization in Oracle,
- 52:15which is basically running every government database that's in existence, and these are all
- 52:22spawned from the is really equivalent of GHQ, which is all about signals intelligence.
- 52:29And if you are a signals intelligence organization and you're spawning commercial organizations which
- 52:36are capable of producing which are producing gear which is capable of gathering bulk data,
- 52:45which is the whole basis of signals intelligence, it's not a coincidence that
- 52:49they are building these types of organizations. So why why are the British people
- 52:55not chatting about that and the dangers of that with respect to national security and
- 53:01our personal security? In fact, well that's the why question is a difficult
- 53:09question, but I mean, look, there aren't there is no equivalent of
- 53:15the Zionist penetration of the tech industry. France isn't doing it, Tanzania isn't
- 53:23doing it, South Africa is not doing it, Algeria is not doing it.
- 53:28The Chinese aren't even doing it. I mean, the idea that Chinese,
- 53:30the Chinese Party runs TikTok or is some kind of major threat. I
- 53:37mean, it's ridiculous. But that, of course is part of the propaganda,
- 53:38isn't it. The threats that we face are from China, from Russia,
- 53:43from Iran, not from Israel. We cannot talk about that, we
- 53:45cannot mention that, we can't even conceive that that is the case. But
- 53:49of course the main threat is from Israel, because it's the one which is,
- 53:52you know, empirically speaking active in trying to penetrate our systems. Larry
- 53:58Elson, who runs Oracle, who, as you said, runs the databases
- 54:00for i mean national security relevant databases for Home Office, the Foreign Office,
- 54:06the MD and then the National Health Service. I mean, people have got
- 54:08to be out of their minds if they think this is not an actual national
- 54:12security problem. Even the national security establishment knows that it's a problem. And
- 54:16then you can see that because of course they investigated Patrick Darky are you familiar
- 54:22with him, who now owns a large proportion of British telecom and he runs
- 54:28of course, like twenty four news in Occupied Palestine, and he bought up
- 54:35the French, famous French radical newspaper Liberation, and he appointed as editor to
- 54:40that newspaper someone who was a veteran aware any two hundreds yeah, yeah,
- 54:47go and say, but they investigated him for national security and of course they
- 54:52didn't announce what the reason was, but that's the reason, right, And
- 54:57I mean they have they have people in there who can see that this is
- 55:00an issue, but obviously there are also people in there saying keep it,
- 55:04keep it dark, old boy, we don't want to do this, and
- 55:07that allows the penetration. I mean, Elison is a is a fanatical Zionist.
- 55:12It was it was wasn't it him who who just happened to have in
- 55:15his back pocket a billion dollars to end to you on masks to buy Twitter?
- 55:21How I think that's what happened. Yeah, you've got you've got a
- 55:25genuine problem. I mean, I see the Scottish Parasti solidarity of trying to
- 55:29raise the issue of the company which runs a surveillance technology in Glasgow City city
- 55:34center and for the Godish Khana in in Dublin, and that's a really intelligence
- 55:40link firm as well. And Authentics, which is the one which is now
- 55:45you know, checking the identities of everyone who's got a Twitter account with the
- 55:50blue check plus what's the premium plus on Twitter? That's really company? Uh,
- 55:58and the idea that this is not a problem, and then the idea
- 56:01that that the NSL group which has done all this hacking software, which sells
- 56:08it to you know, to the Saudis and to the UEE and to repressive
- 56:14governments everywhere, and of course theyse really remain with a with a back door
- 56:19into the data gathered by these other countries. When the Saudis are cracking down
- 56:24on the dissidence, Israel has a window on what's happening, and we do
- 56:30we imagine they're they're not using that window. Well, of course they are.
- 56:34I mean, this is absolutely absurd and people have no conception of that,
- 56:37and that we do need to raise our game here and properly explain how
- 56:42this works and why it's an issue. Mh that that's a thought. I
- 56:50agree one hundred percent. I think it's very important for people to understand how
- 56:53this infiltration is going to affect our daily lives, whether it's on social media,
- 57:00whether it's in the health sector, whether it's in suddenly our personal information
- 57:07turns up somewhere in Israel and is being used for nefarious purposes. I think
- 57:13it's incredibly important for people to fully understand the extent to which Israel Is.
- 57:19You know, are we living in the UK or are we living in little
- 57:23Israel? I mean, that's basically what it's coming down to. Now.
- 57:27Are our politicians working and representing us or are they representing Israel? Yes?
- 57:35And I mean Vanessa, with all these companies that are being incubuted by Israel
- 57:40and Israeli intelligent, then of course there are jobs that are dependent on that
- 57:45incubation, and so people's loyalty is effectively brought on a much broader basis.
- 57:52Yeah. Absolutely, Just one final question, David. You talked about par
- 57:57base, and you talked about palistine and declassified. Just tell us a little
- 58:01bit more about parbase because it is a fantastic resource and tell us how people
- 58:07can find that. Okay. So, in two thousand and four or five,
- 58:13as a result of the propaganda over Iraq and also the question of lobbying
- 58:17and corporate power in the UK, ME and some colleagues set up a company
- 58:22called Public Interest Investigations and it has two projects. One is spin Watch,
- 58:28the website spinwatch dot org, which has reporting and reports, and the other
- 58:32one is a wiki site called power base which has tens of thousands of pages
- 58:37on it, which tries to profile individuals and organizations engaged in public debate and
- 58:43show you where they get their money from, who they're linked to, et
- 58:45cetera, et cetera. And that's an ongoing project, which you know,
- 58:51it is useful. Some of the pages are out of date. It needs
- 58:52a lot more investment of research, but it's a useful way of trying to
- 58:55keep tabs on some of this pass Underclassify is the TV show which I produce
- 59:02and I'm the regular commentator on, which is now produced twice a week.
- 59:08It's on Press TV, which is the Iranian government's English language service, and
- 59:15which is available the band from YouTube, but which is available on on X,
- 59:21on Facebook, on rumbo. Uh. And I think we've got an
- 59:25Instagram page as well now, so there is, yes, Telegram channel is
- 59:30probably the best one. So yeah, so that's that's there, and it's
- 59:35we're p d classified p declassified on Twitter and similar on the other social media
- 59:40and you can follow us there. We do investigations twice a week now and
- 59:46you know, you get stuff there that you more or less don't get anywhere
- 59:51else. Yeah, okay, brilliant. And I think the web addressed for
- 59:53parbas is part based on in for isn't it? I think that's it.
- 59:58That's right, Okay, Well, well look, I think that's been a
- 1:00:00fascinating conversation. David. I would like to repeat this at some point in
- 1:00:07the not to this in the future and delve in a little bit deeper.
- 1:00:10But I'm going to say thank you both for joining us today. That has
- 1:00:14been fascinating. And well I'm just going to end by saying, you know,
- 1:00:17when we were looking at the Israeli lobby money that was being paid to
- 1:00:23the MPs, I'm sure it was not an exhaustive list, but you know,
- 1:00:29you began this program by talking about Conservative Friends of Israel and libor Friends
- 1:00:34Visrael. There were other Friends of Visual groups that I'd never heard of.
- 1:00:37I hadn't heard of Northern Ireland Friends of Visrael, despite the fact that I
- 1:00:39was born and grew up in Northern Ireland, and a whole host of others
- 1:00:44that are just pumping, you know, relatively small amounts of money. But
- 1:00:46of course it all adds up if you're getting money from disparate groups, and
- 1:00:52you know the number of Friends of Israel groups. We don't have Friends of
- 1:00:54It League groups that I'm aware of on this kind of skill, so you
- 1:00:59know, people, people should be asking these questions, you know. So
- 1:01:04look, we're going to leave it there for today. I'm going to say
- 1:01:06thank you very much to you both, and we'll see what the what the
- 1:01:08response is to this, and and we will we will undoubtedly ask you both
- 1:01:13back in the naught to this. In the future the delve a little bit
- 1:01:16deeper. So thank you both, thank you, thank you. Thanks mike H