George Galloway is allowed to get off with far too much in the British working class movement.
I have googled his position on the Gaza War and thereby have been taken to a video of a speech he made in Parliament. I am surprized that this has not been given more air play.
It is on a very reactionary website, a very anti Israel site called Pulse Media (http://pulsemedia.org/)
Without looking at the video I am taking the transcript below the video and hope these are Galloway’s exact words. I presume they are because this site is favourably disposed towards Galloway
[Begin quote from Galloway in British Parliament]
George Galloway, the finest speaker in the British Parliament, lambasts the Government for its complicity in the Gaza massacre, suggesting it takes a more active, just, role in resolving the conflict, given its responsibility dates as far back as 1917 when Arthur Balfour promised Zionist colonisers a home in Palestine.
It’s worth remembering Zionist influence is an important factor in Parliament: from Theodor Herzl and Chaim Weizmann who lobbied for a “Jewish homeland” in Palestine to the modern day Friends of Israel groups that organise brainwashing trips for MPs to Sderot (the first stop on these trips is predictably the holocaust memorial Yad Vashem, designed to remind leaders the coloniser is really the eternal “victim”).
http://pulsemedia.org/2009/01/18/galloway-on-gaza/
1. “Gaza Massacre”
Galloway does not explain that this recent war by Israel was a defensive measure if ever there was such.
Hence Galloway does not refer to 8000 rockets from Gaza into Israel which has made life intolerable for all Israelis and especially for children.
Netanyahu was dead right when he said of those Hamas rockets…rockets from civilian areas, rockets on top of civilians…a double war crime right there!
That was the Palestinian Arab method over 8 years. Attacks on defenceless Israelis, not at all against the IDF, but taking the cowardly approach.
It was a defensive measure against Hamas, not a massacre in any shape of form.
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Reference to the British Government and its responsibility
So Lord Balfour was wrong in giving land to the dispossessed and persecuted Jews of the world.
How is that so Galloway? What is your logic here?
At a time when there were no “Palestinian” Arabs in existence.
And at a time when there were 21 Arab states in the making.
Why was Balfour wrong in hoping for a piece of land for these Jews?
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“its responsibility dates as far back as 1917 when Arthur Balfour promised Zionist colonisers a home in Palestine”
Zionist “colonizers” says galloway.
The word fairly slips off his reactionary tongue.
Here Galloway is meeting on the same ground as the odious Palestine Solidarity Campaign who actually promote Galloway heavily.
But what kind of colonizers were these people who had been persecuted for 2000 years and were only asking for a piece of land to make as their only Homeland!!!???
At a time when the Arabs were being helped to make 21 states!!!
One of which Galloway was to become Jordan, which was given to the Arabs by the Nazi type Churchill, on 78 per cent of that land promised by Balfour to the Jews.
That was British perfidy Galloway. Why not deal with that perfidious act by perfidious Albion.
YOU HAVE AN AGENDA GALLOWAY.
And Galloway you use this word “colonizers”. Since when did a persecuted people become colonizers.
And since when did colonizers come across and pay huge amounts of money, and since when did colonizers take over swamps and through hard labour drain them and make them fruitful.
It pains me and it irks me dealing with Galloway word for word!
So I will finish with this. Galloway is one of those who makes much of what is called the Jewish Lobby. But why? That is the really interesting question.
Remember there is a Scottish lobby, there is an Irish lobby, there is an American lobby, all in the British Parliament. Perplexing that Galloway gets riled up over a Jewish Lobby
So quoting that last full paragraph by Galloway!
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It’s worth remembering Zionist influence is an important factor in Parliament: from Theodor Herzl and Chaim Weizmann who lobbied for a “Jewish homeland” in Palestine to the modern day Friends of Israel groups that organise brainwashing trips for MPs to Sderot (the first stop on these trips is predictably the holocaust memorial Yad Vashem, designed to remind leaders the coloniser is really the eternal “victim”).
And just ask the reader to google the Protocols of Zion, at the same time look at the Hamas Charter, and think a little on the Galloway paragraph above in Parliament.
“Zionist influence an important factor in Parliament”.
I ask Galloway one question:
WHY SHOULD JEWS NOT BE ABLE TO HAVE AN INFLUENCE IN THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT GALLOWAY?
Galloway are you not aware how close you sail to the Protocols of Zion!!!
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