{"id":289203,"date":"2017-01-09T00:28:53","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T23:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/how-many-british-mps-are-working-for-israel\/"},"modified":"2017-01-09T00:28:53","modified_gmt":"2017-01-08T23:28:53","slug":"how-many-british-mps-are-working-for-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/how-many-british-mps-are-working-for-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"How many British MPs are working for Israel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Al Jazeera is to be congratulated on an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2017\/01\/uk-mp-urges-probe-alleged-israeli-interference-170108132151019.html\" target=\"_blank\">undercover investigation<\/a> exposing something most of us\u00a0could probably have guessed: that some Israeli embassy staff in the UK \u2013 let\u2019s not pussy around, Mossad agents \u2013 are working with senior political activists and politicians in the Conservative and Labour parties to subvert their own parties from within, and skew British foreign policy so that it benefits Israeli, rather than British, interests.<\/p>\n<p>One cannot really blame Israel for doing this. Most states promote their interests as best they can. But one can and should expose and shame the British politicians who are collaborating with Israel in further harming\u00a0Britain\u2019s representative democracy.<\/p>\n<p>It is not as though these people cannot be easily identified. They even advertise what they are up to. They are members of the Conservative and Labour Friends of Israel. They dominate both\u00a0parliamentary parties, but especially the Conservatives. According to the CFI\u2019s figures, fully 80 per cent of Tory MPs belong to the party\u2019s Friends of Israel group.<\/p>\n<p>Once, no one would have hesitated to call British politicians acting in the interests of a foreign power, and very possibly taking financial benefits for doing so, \u201ctraitors\u201d. And yet, as Al Jazeera\u2019s secretly filmed footage shows, Israeli spies like Shai Masot can readily meet and conspire with a Tory MP\u2019s much-trusted aide to discuss\u00a0how best to \u201ctake down\u201d the deputy foreign minister, Alan Duncan, over&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2017\/01\/how-many-british-mps-are-working-for-israel\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Jazeera is to be congratulated on an undercover investigation exposing something most of us\u00a0could probably have guessed: that some Israeli embassy staff in the UK \u2013 let\u2019s not pussy around, Mossad agents \u2013 are working with senior political activists and politicians in the Conservative and Labour parties to subvert their own parties from within, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-289203","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}