Separated at birth...
Posted on 10/01/2005 5:37:27 AM PDT by veronica
The controversial leader of the Respect Party George Galloway this week provoked a fresh wave of condemnation after he launched a stinging attack on Zionism and Israel during a radio interview in America.
The MP, who this year won the Bethnal Green and Bow Parliamentary seat in a bitter contest with Labour’s Oona King, was denounced by community leaders and political peers for his comments which suggested Zionists had effectively engineered anti-semitism.
During the show, broadcast on stations across the US and online Galloway declared that, “Israel and dirty tricks have a long history,” denouncing it as a “little settler state on the Mediterranean” whose purpose was to “act as an advanced guard in the Arab world.”
Responding to interviewer Alex Jones’ claims that Zionists funded Hitler because “they said he’s going be good, he’s going to persecute Jews and he likes our plan of Palestine”, Galloway stated, “This is the thing about Zionism. It has nothing to do with Jewishness. Some of the biggest Zionists in the world are not Jews…. These people have used Jewish people.”
He added: “They created the conditions in the Arab countries and in some European countries to stampede Jewish people out of the countries that they had been living in for many hundreds of years and stampede them into the Zionist state.”
Labour Liverpool Riverside MP Louise Ellman, who has been derided by Galloway as “Israel’s MP on Merseyside,” said: “I think this is just another demonstration of George Galloway’s total hostility towards Jewish national identity and self-determination.”
Eric Moonman, President of the Zionist Federation, added to the condemnation, accusing Galloway of “manipulating many of the facts”.
He continued: “He has created a relatively new bogey for him, which is the non-Jewish Zionist. I think in short that one must never overestimate the power of his words but we must not underestimate the way in which he can influence groups of people who are somewhat naive about the Middle East and Zionism. It’s depressing that the Jewish people and friends of Zionism are having to justify themselves and argue their corner.”
Stan Urman, Director of Justice for Jews from Arab Countries, a group which represents the 856,000 of Jewish refugees from Arab countries, dismissed Galloway’s claims. He said: “How does one explain pogroms in 1912 and 1932 well before the establishment of the State of Israel? They were part of an orchestrated campaign by Arab governments to use their Jewish population as a weapon in their struggle against the creation of the State of Israel. His comments do not stand the test of historical fact.”
While Downing Street said it had “no intention of validating these well-known views of George Galloway with any comment, ” Galloway himself told the Jewish News: “I stand by all those comments. Everything I have said there is fact and there are shelves full of books to prove it. I believe that Zionism has exploited the Jewish people as much as the Palestinian people and has turned the people of Einstein and Epstein into one apparently represented by Sharon and Netanyahu.”
Separated at birth...
FYI...
Galloway's second wife of six years was a Palestinian Muslim.
And he threw her over for another woman, I believe. She said some scathing things about him and his lack of "Respect" for their marriage vows.
I see crackpot Alex Jones is in the article. He's one of those Muslims didn't fly any planes on September 11 crackpots. He's got 1000 reasons why it was a government conspiracy and the MI5 bombed London. All to promote the war on Arabs and the war for oil.
Very dangerous crackpots.
Someone needs to snag him off the street and dump his sorry butt in the hottest spot we can find in Iraq.
Everytime this guys says something, it's loonier and loonier.
The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good. He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil. - Psa. 36:3,4
His twin is a broken link?
In other news, Stormfronters post at Free Republic using creative euphemisms for "Jew"...
Broken link?
What is it with the bad guys that they all seem to hate Israel?
You know, where the hell is Mossad when you need them? They could take this guy out before breakfast.
One messed up if not legally insane Brit.
Someday, some way, somebody is gonna beat the snot outa this jackass!
We have our Galloways here in the US.
and not a moment too soon. This guy is one of the more venomous anti-semites around.
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