Rupert Murdoch is an Israeli-US agent at the heart of Britain and the phone hacking crisis should awake British politicians to his role in Britain’s policy.
Indeed a look at the media mogul’s links to the British administrations since the 1980′s clearly shows that he may be well termed a political meddler in Britain over all these years and that his interests in the country have not been merely financial.
Murdoch was a key supporter of Conservative governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major in the 1980′s and 1990′s but reneged to Labour after Tony Blair took power only to go back to Conservatives in 2007.
That raises questions about the connection between his political allegiances in Britain and the policies he was likely to support there as a Jew whose giant American media arms, Fox, is notorious for being a close ally of the Republicans.
Murdoch developed close ties with the Blair administration as the Americans needed a front man to sell their Iraq war in Europe and Israelis needed and apologist.
Blair who angered critics for his silence on the destructive and bloody Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1996 when at the helm of the opposition was said to have been “cool toward the right-wing Netanyahu government” when he took office in 1997 and forged close ties with Tel Aviv under Ehud Barak in 1999.
During Blair’s terms in office between 1997 and 2007, Downing Street was a first destination in Murdoch’s trips to London, but Labour lost its appeal to the media mogul when it lost power.
Murdoch switched back to Conservatives in 2007 and now the phone hacking crisis around his British subsidiary News International threatens to undermine David Cameron’s government over the PM’s appointment of former News of the World editor Andy Coulson as the communications director for the Conservative party and later for the Downing Street with access to the highly confidential government material.
It emerged in July 2011 that Murdoch had given Cameron a personal guarantee that there would be no risk attached to hiring Coulson – who is a key suspect in phone hacking practices – as Cameron’s spin-doctor in 2007.
Indeed, Murdoch’s role in influencing British policies, be it hidden from the eyes of the public could be the real reason why the British government has been so keen to pressure him out of the BSkyB takeover.
Analysts believe a petty phone hacking and police bribery case in a little subsidiary of Murdoch’s media empire could hardly be reasons enough to kick him out of the BSkyB deal so there seem to be underlying problems linked to his connections outside Britain.
Britain has paid dearly for 10 years of nonstop engagement in bloody conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya that have killed hundreds of British soldiers and hundreds of thousands of local population imposing billions of pounds on the economy.
All those problems seem to be rooted in a strategic and ‘special’ partnership between Britain and the US and for that matter with the Israeli regime in which Murdoch has been a powerful catalyst.
