Don’t miss: Gilad Atzmon at the LJF - 20 years in the UK @ The Queen Elizabeth Hall

21st November,  Gilad Atzmon 20 Years in Britain, London Jazz Festival, special concert at The Queen Elizabeth Concert Hall, London South Bank.

20 years after landing in the UK, saxophonist and composer Gilad Atzmon has become an intensely creative presence on the European scene, whether leading successive editions of his Orient House Ensemble, developing new work for string quartet alongside interpretations of the evocative Charlie Parker with strings project, or playing with the Blockheads and Robert Wyatt. 

This concert offers a journey through Gilad’s varied musical activity, including some very special collaborations.

The concert will feature The Orient House Ensemble (Frank Harrison, Eddie Hick & Yaron Stavi, The Sigamos Quartet led by Ros Stephen, Sarah Gillespie, Asaf Sirkis, Jennifer Bennett,   Yair Avidor and the legendary Norman Watt Roy.  

Don’t miss it, book now, the concert is selling out quickly: http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whatson/gilad-atzmon-74480

Coming gigs and tours, recordings & talks  (UK, Luxemburg, Cyprus, USA)

September

1 With The Power Cats, wall2wall Jazz Festival, Swan Hotel, Abergavenny

3 Gilad Atzmon Quartet, Wilmslow Conservative Club, Wilmslow

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Labour in the Synagogue

The Jewish Chronicle reports today that Lawyer Sarah Sackman will be the Labour candidate in the Finchley and Golders Green constituency at the 2015 general election.

Apparently, “Ms Sackman was selected at a party meeting at Finchley Progressive Synagogue on Sunday.”

One may wonder why does the Labour select its candidate in a Synagogue?  Do they also select candidates in churches and mosques?

Israel and the Jewish lobby likely to get embroiled in Congress debate on Syria

 

Israeli writer Chemi Shalev predicts today in Haartez that Israel and the Jewish Lobby will be putting pressure on congressmen. In practice they will push for a war against Syria.

"Supporters of Israel will likely be told that at this critical juncture, neutrality is a luxury that neither the lobby nor the Administration can afford. Time to put up or shut up, get off the fence and spend some of the precious political capital that Israel supporters have amassed in order to fight in the Washington trenches for something that most Israelis contend is crucial to their national interests."

And the verdict is clear, if you have a powerful Jewish lobby in you country, you don't really need an enemy, you will end up fighting a war with no end...

Hot off the Press: Britain sold nerve gas chemicals to Syria

By Gilad Atzmon

If you want to know why PM Cameron was keen to launch an immediate attack on Syria while the UN mission was still collecting evidence on the ground,  but then was very quick to scrap the idea all together, dailyrecord.co.uk provides the answer. Britain and Cameron’s government may as well be complicit in the unfolding tragedy.

Seemingly, British firms sold Syrian companies the chemical components needed for the production of chemical weapons, long after the beginning of the civil war.

“BRITAIN allowed firms to sell chemicals to Syria capable of being used to make nerve gas”

“Export licences for potassium fluoride and sodium fluoride were granted months after the bloody civil war in the Middle East began.”

According to the Daily Record, “the chemical export licences were granted by Business Secretary Vince Cable’s Department for Business, Innovation and Skills last January – 10 months after the Syrian uprising began. They were only revoked six months later, when the European Union imposed tough sanctions on Assad’s regime.” However, it is far from being clear yet who is responsible for the attack. There is clear evidence that Rebel forces also possessed chemical weapons. One of the possible explanations for the recent tragedy is that Syrian artillery shells hit rebels’ WMD storage and it was the explosion that spread the lethal substance that killed so many innocents.  

“Yesterday, politicians and anti-arms trade campaigners urged Prime Minister David Cameron to explain why the licences were granted.”

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Syrians In Ghouta Claim Saudi-Supplied Rebels Behind Chemical Attack

Introduction by Gilad Atzmon:  I do not posses the means to verify how credible the following report is. It suggests that it was actually Syrian forces’ conventional artillery and missiles that hit rebel’s WMD storage. If the report is genuine, it would be consistent with the  American intelligence account: Assad's forces indeed fired rockets and artillery at the time of the alleged chimical attack, yet the rockets were of a conventional nature.

The meaning of it is simple, the rebels posses WMD supplied by foreign agents and the conflict is about to escalate into a genocidal warfare, an unfolding tragedy.

What we need is divine intervention as opposed to Zionist immoral interventionist pathology.

Syrians In Ghouta Claim Saudi-Supplied Rebels Behind Chemical Attack

Source: http://www.mintpressnews.com/witnesses-of-gas-attack-say-saudis-supplied-rebels-with-chemical-weapons/168135/

Rebels and local residents in Ghouta accuse Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan of providing chemical weapons to an al-Qaida linked rebel group.

By Dale Gavlak and Yahya Ababneh

Ghouta, Syria — As the machinery for a U.S.-led military intervention in Syria gathers pace following last week’s chemical weapons attack, the U.S. and its allies may be targeting the wrong culprit.

Interviews with people in Damascus and Ghouta, a suburb of the Syrian capital, where the humanitarian agency Doctors Without Borders said at least 355 people had died last week from what it believed to be a neurotoxic agent, appear to indicate as much.

However, from numerous interviews with doctors, Ghouta residents, rebel fighters and their families, a different picture emerges. Many believe that certain rebels received chemical weapons via the Saudi intelligence chief, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, and were responsible for carrying out the dealing gas attack.
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