Andrew Ian Dodge writes about the latest episode of Spooks.
Guess who are the bad guys now? Yeah you guessed it…the Israelis. Not even a rogue element, but proper Israeli agents trying to stop a nuclear power deal with Saudi.
The sheer amazing astoundingness of this shock ending leaves me amazed and astounded.
Jonz and Archduke also flagged this up.
Wasn’t it broadcast last year as well?
I remember the Israelis being bad guys on Spooks then too.
I think that the makers of this series are also responsible for the latest Bush killing film. Cutting edge.
This shouldn’t come as a great surprse. The BBC has used its drama output as a polemical weapon for years.
In many respects it’s an even more effective one than the corporation’s biased news and current affairs output, as the great unwashed tend to absorb the messages on a subliminal level.
Not to mention that the Left/Soft Left whose line the BBC consistently touts, are in general anti-semitic to the core.
As an Israeli I am pleased the BBC would consider that we would do anything to ensure that the Saudis never got their hands on a nuclear capability. Just imagine if this were true and within the next five years as it seems likely Al Qaeda take over in Saudi. It doesn’t bear thinking about – maybe the BBC got it right this time – whether we’re the bad guys or in fact saving the West from a fate worse than death is deabatable.
Spooks isn’t made by the BBC, but by an independent called Kudos.
The scripts are written by the spy thriller writer David Woolstoncraft.
Hard to see how this is evidence of BBC bias then.
Harder still when you reflect that the series (under the name MI5) sells well in the US.
I haven’t seen the second part yet (recorded it), but guessed it was a Mossad job. So far I’ve been somewhat rooting for them …
reality checker burbles:
“Spooks isn’t made by the BBC, but by an independent called Kudos.
The scripts are written by the spy thriller writer David Woolstoncraft.
Hard to see how this is evidence of BBC bias then.”
The BBC has script commissioning and apporoval powers.
Try writing the mirror image plot and see how quickly it winds its way back onto your dormat.
Some ‘reality’.
so the lesson of this episode of spooks is that the Islamist terrorists are really Mossad agents. See? Islamism doesnt really exist and is just a figment of Dubya’s imagination.
In a future episode the spooks stop a shipment of rockets to south lebanon – turns out that Hezbollah are really Mossad agents and are firing rockets at Israelis in order to provoke a war.
do i get a commission?
A small point: David Wolstencroft (sp.) was the creator of Spooks, but hasn’t written for the recent series (pl).
A company that’s totally independant of it customers is a company that’s going out of business fast.
Get a grip.
“The sheer amazing astoundingness of this shock ending leaves me amazed and astounded.”
Since when was ‘astoundingness’ a word?
This site is such a joke… Are you trying to tell me that Spooks is pro-Islam?
Spooks seems to be based in a mirror reality where muslims are victims and The West and especially Israel are terrorists.
It just seems to uncannily match the lefts rhetoric.
Did you hear the opening line, words to this effect.
“How do we sell the idea og giving nuke reactors to the Saudis?”
“Well, if they fell for the fairy tales about iraq they fall for this.”
This whole series of spooks has been peppered with drop lines such as that above, and so far all Islamic terrorists have been Mossad or MI6 agents. I’m glad i’m not the only one noticing the left wing propoganda in this current series.
Indeed. Imagine the Israelis bombing the British while disguised as Arabs. Could never happen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_David_Hotel_bombing
A plot line that incorporates Islamic terrorists taking control of a Saudi _Trade_Centre_? But then those terrorists turn out to really to be Mossad agents determined to pin the blame on the innocent Islamofacists?
Sound like any of the many 9/11 conspiracy theories you come across in the dark recesses of the web? 4000 Israelis supposedly not turning up for work becuase is was all a put up job by Mossad?
Who on earth allowed this mindless nonsense to be aired, and when did Aunty start accepting TV Drama scripts from Hamas’ propoganda wing?
Do they not realise that with this plot line, it’s numerous references to camp X-ray and even an evil Isreali discussing “our American patrons”, that they are playing directly into the hands of very real terrorists, who would like to rewrite history in this exact manner?
At no point in a production meeting did someone not turn around and say, “oh, hang on, this makes it look like we are agreeing that Israelis might use terrorism and try to blame it on Muslims.”?
Do they not think that every Muslim who saw the programme and has heard the rumors about Israeli involvement in 9/11 are not going to come away from the programme saying, “see, they _could_ have done it.”?
Airing this plot was at best irresponsible, and at worst deliberately so.
There is no doubt it was deliberate. The BBC has sided with Islamic terror.
I find Spooks reflects the BBC’s agenda to consistently. If it did occasionally, fair enough, but every storyline seems to have the same slant, rather than there being variety (as there should be) in the tone and meaning of episode.
BUT Benyamin Netanyahu did recently celebrate the slaughter at the King David Hotel. Clearly, he regards British lives as expendable, so Spooks, in that regard, is pretty accurate.
By sponsoring this plotline, the Beeb has revealed the latent antisemitism of the lovie clique that controls it. Bit of a faux pas this, as that attitude should have stayed latent, not become patent. After all, Aunty is above mean-minded racism, like the chattering classes in general, right? But then again, it’s not racist if you’re against Israel. The fact that it’s the only Jewish state in the world, whose name means the Jewish people in Hebrew, well, that’s just coincidence…
There’s a lot of unfinished biz between Britain and the Jews over the war they fought just after WWII. No-one calls it a war but that’s exactly what it was and Britain lost. The King David bombing was undoubtedly a terrorist act that succeeded in persuading HMG to vacate the country. However, it would be wrong to say, as the Times article did, that anyone celebrated the deaths of its victims directly. Quite the opposite, as attitudes to the Irgun in Israel are ambivalent to this day. Whether warnings were given or not is another contentious issue.
Jon B,
Warnings were given – to the British authorities at the hotel, to the Palestine Post (precursor to the Jerusalem Post) and I believe there was a third to a nearby embassy. It’s not a contentious issue at all. The British ignored the warnings, declaring that they “would not take orders from Jews.”
Was it terrorism? The British were doing everything in their power to thwart the establishment of Israel, despite the fact that they were mandated to facilitate it, even going to the extent of turning back Jewish refugees who had survived the Holocaust and were desperate to find a safe haven. The wing of the hotel that the British had commandeered for their headquarters was the section of the hotel that was bombed. I believe it was a guerilla act rather than terrorism.
And of course it’s absurd to talk of Netanyahu or anyone else “celebrating ” British deaths.
To Zevelyn
BUT Benyamin Netanyahu did recently celebrate the slaughter at the King David Hotel. Clearly, he regards British lives as expendable, so Spooks, in that regard, is pretty accurate.
The slaughter ? This was a legitimate attack against a military target. Some civilians were killed but among them were Jews too. (Jewish civilians). Don’t tell me that civilians were never killed in British (or US, French, etc. ) operations. It’s inevitable. Furthermore if it wasn’t for British arrogance (“we don’t take order from Jews”) and their refusal to evacuate after receiving the warning they wouldn’t have been casualties. This is not the first time that British behave this way. I remember it was the same with some IRA attacks and also in other country you coccupied.
The bombing of the King david hotel was the main and perhaps only reason why GB decided to leave Palestine. If they cannot be safe in their HQ then they won’t be safe anywhere. And so this became a very symbolic attack. The beginning of the end of the British occupation of Jewish land. The action that made the creation of Israel possible.
It is quite proper to celebrate this event. Doesn’t the British celebrate their victory at Waterloo over Napoleon ? Or against the Spanish Armada, etc.
Doesn’t the US celebrate the defeat of the English in 1776 ? Doesn’t the Mexicans celebrate Cinquo de mayo ( if you live in California you would know it is a big deal here) which is not as some people think the Mexican Independence day (that is sometime in Sept I believe) but it celebrate their victory over the French.
It is despicable that the British consul, or whoever it was, said that “it is not proper to celebrate the slaughter” Please ! Your hypocrisy knows no limit !
July 22, should become a national holiday, this event should be teach in schoolbooks, along with the theft, the crime that GB perpetrated in 1922 by stealing almost 80% of jewish land and gave it to Arabs bedouins. It was not yours to give. It was not British property. Be generous with your own land. If you want to give part of England to.. say, the Russian, go ahead, but don’t give away jewish land, land that do not belong to you.
They are many problems with your country and attitude. At one point you subjected 25 % of world population to your rules , Who do you think you are ? Why should Chinese, Indians, Jews, Egyptians, Americans and others be your subjects ?
I don’t have the space to speak about this right now but to go back to the subject of the celebration of the King David hotel. If you don’t like it, you should not attend. Nobody invited you I suppose anyway. So keep your stupid and insulting comments for yourself. If you would not have ruled over Jewish land in the 40’s you would have not been attacked. British soldiers were killed in Jerusalem because ..they were in Jerusalem ! If they would have stayed in London or Liverpool, the Israelis would not have attacked them. They were killed for the same reason British soldiers are killed in Belfast by the Irish.
You occupy foreign land then you are surprised when the natives attack you ! incredible !
PS Oh one more thing, I know how you think so at this point you probably think -“isn’t that what the “Palestinians” are doing ? ”
No, because
1) it is not their land.
2) They attack civilians something you deplore.
And most of their attacks in the 70’s and later was against Jews in Europe.
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