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    Avigail Abarbanel: What The Israeli Press Wants Its Public to think about The UK's Relationship With 📂 Archived Message

    Posted by sashimi on June 25, 2025, 9:44 am, in reply to "Avigail Abarbanel: What's Going On Inside Israel Right Now?"

    Starmer is supposedly "left-wing" in the eyes of Zionists, critical of Israel and engaging in a meaningful sanctions.

    24 Jun 2025

    Lede: Another example of Israel's bizarre, cult-like psyche

    The pattern of Israeli influence operations in Western democracies has been
    documented for decades, but it is permitted to continue largely
    unchallenged. Think of it as Hasbara weaponised. In the UK extensive Israeli
    networks operate within both major parties through organisations like Labour
    Friends of Israel and Conservative Friends of Israel, which provide
    institutional channels for influence. We've seen how dissenting MPs face
    orchestrated pressure campaigns, and there's a notable revolving door between
    pro-Israel advocacy groups and government positions. The mainstream media offer
    little or no meaningful challenge.

    What makes Israel's operations so effective is their ability to get to people in
    key positions before they gain power. They control information by feeding
    officials intelligence that appears to come from their own agencies, but
    actually originates from Israeli sources. Dissenting voices are systematically
    isolated, as allegedly happening in the US to Gabbard just now. Meanwhile, media
    coordination ensures favourable coverage. The Grayzone piece mentions Fox News
    becoming "a 24/7 commercial for war on Iran."

    Electorates in both the US and UK consistently vote for politicians promising to
    focus on domestic priorities, only to see those same politicians drawn into
    Middle Eastern wars driven largely by Israel. It raises serious questions about
    whether we live in truly sovereign democracies, or in client states operating
    under sophisticated foreign influence.

    Israel operates like the mafia. Strip away the veneer of 'strategic partnership'
    and 'shared values', and what the Grayzone piece describes is essentially
    protection racket tactics: leveraging compromising information or creating
    situations where officials owe them favours, isolating targets by cutting them
    off from alternative advice (like excluding Gabbard from meetings), and
    controlling information flow to ensure the person you target only hears what you
    want them to hear. There are systematic campaigns against politicians who step
    out of line, creating a 'you're either with us or against us' mentality with no
    middle ground allowed.

    If Israel's methods were invisible, they might be considered sophisticated. But
    Israel operates more like gangsters who've gotten so powerful, they don't even
    bother hiding their methods anymore. They operate in plain sight because they
    can - because the system has been hijacked to the point where calling it out is
    career suicide. It's less 'strategic influence' and more, 'nice democracy you
    have there, shame if something happened to it'...

    The Yediot Ahronot article below offers insight into the kind of psyche that's
    behind Israel's mafia-like behaviour. It shows how the world we know is
    perceived within Israel, and how the Israeli press moulds the way the Jewish
    Israeli pubic thinks about the rest of the world.

    The Tories' Badenoch is now Israel's darling, and I have to wonder how Israel
    got to her. Which of Israel's many mafia-like tactics was used to turn Badenoch
    into the fanatical supporter of Israel that she is? Read carefully between the
    lines and see if you can spot the spin, propaganda and indoctrination.
    -- Cont'd at https://avigail.substack.com/p/what-the-israeli-press-wants-the

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