Irangate
Edward Said, 7 May 1987
The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey
by Salman Rushdie.
Picador, 171 pp., £2.95, January 1987,0 330 29990 5 Show More
by Salman Rushdie.
Picador, 171 pp., £2.95, January 1987,
Turning the Tide: US Intervention in Central America and the Struggle for Peace
by Noam Chomsky.
Pluto, 298 pp., £5.95, September 1986,0 7453 0184 3 Show More
by Noam Chomsky.
Pluto, 298 pp., £5.95, September 1986,
“... this was termed ‘understandable self-defence’ by the President. It turned out later that Jonathan Pollard, given a life sentence in America in March of this year, had handed over the requisite information about PLO offices to Israel, as part of a spying operation. Here was a weird concatentation whereby anti-terrorism, condoned and encouraged by the ... ”
