Israel and Britain: Two peas in the same "Greater Israel Project" pod

Editor's note: Just consider "Israel is Britain's forward firebase in the Middle East" then figure everything out from there going back to Britain. Consider too for a moment the British SAS are probably crawling all over Lebanon and might even be calling in targets for Israel's bombing runs on Hezbollah targets in Lebanon and Syria. There are all different kinds of connecting convergences back to Britain aren't there? Including Khomeini's involvement in the 1979 Iranian revolution who was likely a British asset. The British along with their "forward fire base in Israel" do not want peace so they created Hamas. That also means the Muslim Brotherhood was also created by these same British sponsored networks. And let's not forget that other Islamic cleric Hassan Rhouhani in Iran who was educated at Glasgow in Scotland. Terrorism never existed in the Middle East until the country of Israel set up shop to backdoor America then put Hezbollah to work. Then when the real threats to Israel surface over the years like the leader of Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah, they can be easily assassinated as pesky terrorists. All this as Lebanon is planned to be absorbed into Israel. 
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How the Israel Lobby Got Hezbollah Banned In Britain

The UK government's total proscription of the Lebanese movement in 2019 was the work of pro-Israel lobbyists.

By Matt Kennard and Phil Miller | September 26, 2024

• UK foreign minister at time of proscription says Israel lobby "deployed their Commons troops in Israel's cause"

• Israel lobbyist Stuart Polak admitted on the proscription "it took us ages with Hezbollah"

• Jeremy Corbyn's Labour refused to oppose the ban as it went through parliament

Britain's terrorism ban on all parts of Hezbollah came after intense lobbying by pro-Israel groups within Westminster, according to a former UK foreign minister and Tory peers.

Hezbollah's External Security Organisation and its military wing had already been proscribed in the 2000s.

But in 2019, Theresa May's government took the decision to proscribe the group in its entirety on the basis that it was "no longer tenable to distinguish between the military and political wings of Hezbollah".

Just a year earlier May’s cabinet had defended the distinction and refused to ban Hezbollah's political wing, which holds ministerial posts in Lebanon's government. However the policy shifted once Sajid Javid, a staunchly pro-Israel MP, became home secretary.

Israeli ambassador Tzipi Hotovely has called Javid "a very special friend" and said his "friendship is one of the greatest things that happened for the Israel-UK relationship".

Hezbollah (meaning "Party of God") is a Lebanese Shia Islamist political and paramilitary group.

Its political bloc won 15 seats in the Lebanese parliament at the 2022 elections and is also part of the country's government, holding two seats in its cabinet.

Yet Israel is conducting a major attack on Lebanon under the guise of targeting Hezbollah, with air strikes killing 500 people on Monday and a ground invasion being threatened.

Last week Israeli intelligence detonated pagers and radios belonging to Hezbollah, with 42 killed and thousands injured. Former CIA director Leon Panetta said Israel's booby trapping of the pagers was "a form of terrorism".

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'It took us ages with Hezbollah'

An all out ban on Hezbollah was always controversial because of the group's position in running Lebanon, which is a UK ally. The Conservative government eventually took the decision under pressure from groups and individuals who are well connected in Israel.

In an interview in August 2023, Lord Stuart Polak, referring to the push to proscribe Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, said, "I think what we need to do is just pure lobbying action."

He added: "It will happen and I think a number of people have said it's just how long it takes for it to happen. It took us ages with Hezbollah. Again, why? Because I think it's just easier for civil servants not to change."

The "us" Polak was referring to is likely Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI), a powerful Westminster lobby group that does not divulge its funders but claims 80% of Tory MPs are members.

Polak is honorary president of the organisation and was its director for 25 years.

When Hezbollah’s proscription was debated in the Lords in February 2019, Polak spoke strongly in favour. He took a swipe at then Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, saying: "Very few of us would call Hezbollah our friend."

Another Tory peer, Eric Pickles, who was CFI's leader in the Lords, told the chamber on the same day that in 2019 he wanted to "pay tribute to my noble friend Lord Polak, who has been a champion of this over a number of years and has kept this issue in the minds of both Houses of Parliament. He deserves considerable credit for arriving at this decision."

A proscribed group in Britain "is an organisation or group that is illegal to join or show support for, because it has been identified as being concerned in terrorism", according to the police.

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