{"id":11800,"date":"2009-11-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-11-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-27T00:00:00","slug":"Get Ready For Another Whitewash\r\n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=11800","title":{"rendered":"Get Ready For Another Whitewash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?cid=1259010973336&#038;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull\">Jerusalem Post<\/a> reported today that Sir Oliver Miles, a former British ambassador to Libya criticized the appointment of two leading Jewish academics to the UK&#8217;s Iraq Inquiry panel, stating it may upset the balance of the inquiry.<\/p>\n<p> Miles said the two academics were Jewish and that <b>Gilbert was an active Zionist<\/b>. He also said <b>they were both strong supporters of former prime minister Tony Blair and the Iraq war.<\/b><\/p>\n<p> &#8220;It is a pity that, if and when the inquiry is accused of a whitewash, such handy ammunition will be available,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Membership should not only be balanced; it should be seen to be balanced.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> The former ambassador also said that having two historians in a panel of five &#8220;seems a lot&#8221; and also questioned the Jewish academics&#8217; credentials.<\/p>\n<p> <b>&#8220;In December 2004 Sir Martin, while pointing out that the &#8216;war on terror&#8217; was not a third world war, wrote that Bush and Blair &#8216;may well, with the passage of time and the opening of the archives, join the ranks of Roosevelt and Churchill&#8217;<\/b> &#8211; an eccentric opinion that would seem to rule him out as a member of the committee. <b>Sir Lawrence is the reputed architect of the &#8216;Blair doctrine&#8217; of humanitarian intervention, which was invoked in Kosovo and Afghanistan as well as Iraq,&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?cid=1259010973336&#038;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull\">Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\">Source: http:\/\/www.gilad.co.uk\/writings\/get-ready-for-another-whitewash.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inquiry into the Iraq War is in danger of being flawed from the outset. Gilad Atzmon explains why<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}