| Alpha | | Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2003 6:56 am Post subject: Blair (like Bush) being Influenced to Invade Iraq for Israel |
| Blair (like Bush) being Influenced to Invade Iraq for Israel:
> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 12:19 PM
> Subject: [WarOnFreedom] where is blair's lair?
>
> > Like Bush, no wonder Blair doesn't listen to the public of his country as he has another
> > constituency with deeper pockets, people like
> > www.red-star-research.org.uk/levy.html
> >
> > Lord Michael Levy
> >
> > Lord Levy is one of the most important fundraisers for the Labour Party
> and
> > Tony Blair's unofficial envoy to the Middle East. He met Blair at a dinner
> > party in 1994 held by Gideon Meir, a senior Israeli diplomat, and became
> > his tennis partner. Levy was in charge of donations to the 'private trust'
> > which funded Tony Blair's office before the 1997 election (which reached
> L7
> > million), and is now the chief fundraiser for the 'high value' donors
> > account at the Labour Party, along with his deputy Amanda Delew (who
> worked
> > with him at Jewish Care). He is reported to have raised L12 million for
> the
> > 'high value' fund before the 1997 election, becoming known as 'Mr
> > Cashpoint'. Straight after the election he was given a peerage. He used to
> > work with Dr Henry Drucker, whose company Oxford Philanthropic was brought
> > in by the Labour Party to advise on gaining large corporate donations, but
> > they fell out over Drucker's description of Labour's 'blind trust' funds
> as
> > 'evil' (the trusts have since all been closed down). At one meeting with
> > Levy in his Totteridge mansion, Levy apologised to Drucker for not
> offering
> > him a cup of coffee, but explained 'You'll have to do without as none of
> > the servants are about and I don't know how to work the machine myself.'
> >
> > He set up Magnet Records in 1972 with help from Maurice Oberstein, Head of
> > CBS Records, and made millions from artists like Alvin Stardust, Chris
> Rea,
> > Dollar, Darts and Bad Manners, at one point was selling 8% of all records
> > in the UK. Some former employees of Magnet have complained that he was a
> > tyrant who shouted at staff and threw ashtrays around. He sold Magnet to
> > Warner Brothers in 1988 for L10 million and later set up another record
> > company called M&G (named after himself and his wife Gilda), where he paid
> > himself a salary of L308,657. He sold M&G in 1997.
> >
> > Although a multi-millionaire, he only paid L5,000 in tax in 1998-9 and
> less
> > than L10,000 in 1997-8 as he said he wasn't working. He runs a private
> > company called Wireart, an investment company which was based in an
> oversea
> > tax haven until 1997. Wireart paid him L160,000 (plus L50,000 expenses)
> for
> > work as a management consultant in 1998-9 at the time he wasn't working.
> > Since 1992 he has been Chairman of Jewish Care, one of the UK's biggest
> > charities (he was asked to join by the Tory minister Lord Young), raising
> > as much as L60 million.
> >
> >
> > Lord Levy's multi-million pound home, Chase House in Totteridge
> >
> > Levy's second home in Tel Aviv, Israel
> >
> > Chase House, Levy's home in Totteridge (north London), has 5 large
> > bedrooms, 3 sitting rooms, tennis court, swimming pool, a games room, palm
> > trees, a large garage for his chauffeur-driven Jaguar and Bentley and a
> > seperate annexe for his servants. He spent L1.3 million refurbishing the
> > house after he bought it in 1997 for L1.3 (his previous house was sold for
> > L3.4 million). The rooms are lined with marble, granite and limestone.
> >
> > He also owns a villa in Herzliya Pituah, an exclusive suburb of Tel Aviv
> in
> > Israel, which he bought after selling another villa nearby for L4 million.
> > He has acted as a fundraiser for Ehud Barak, the Israeli Prime Minister,
> > and maintains a close relationship with him. His son Daniel worked for the
> > Israeli Justice Minister Yossi Beilin, to whom Levy contributed campaign
> > funds. Both his children live in Israel.
> >
> > His role as unofficial envoy for the Middle East took him to 8 different
> > countries in 1999, staying in British Embassies, including Syria, Jordan,
> > Oman, Qatar, Israel, Egypt and Lebanon (where he was accused by the
> > Lebanese Government of bringing them the Israeli position and the British
> > Ambassador had to issue a statement to try and calm the situation down).
> He
> > was also provided with cars, drivers and staff support. The Embassy in
> > Amman, Jordan, arranged a lunch for him to meet Jordanian politicians.
> >
> >
> > Levy with Cherie Blair and Chris Smith
> >
> >
> >
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