I think this is genius. finally some one’s got the balls to come out n say it like it is. whoever opposes what Mr. Galloway states so clearly and bluntly here clearly has allowed propaganda to blurr reality in their heads.shame.

galloway for leader of the world

Rick: “Galloway for President?”

Why not?

So he’s a foreigner — foreigners and traitors loyal to Israel have been running our Pentagon for years.

Barack Obama, Ned Lamont, et al, take a cue from the likes of Galloway: not only does he possess and utilize a firm spine, his brain rests comfortably at the top.  IMHO, the reason so many defenders of Israel/American policies find rare individuals like Galloway so frustrating or maddening is because the man wields the truth so effectively that they are left without a rational counter-argument. 
Galloway for President?

How can one NOT say this is a religious war with an insane dose of failed politics?  And the irony in all of this is that it’s repetitively showing that our religious institutions are failing to abide by the very constructs their god(s) dictate.  This begs the realization of the FACT that our Gods/Goddesses (ALL of them!) are myths of our own making and that we willingly kill each other on FANTASY!

Mythology is a very valuable tool in our history/pre-history as it attempts to teach us how to live peacefully amongst each other on THE ONLY EARTH WE HAVE!

However, this mythology has been misrepresented as actual fact WITH itsimpending catastrophic prophecy!  Has not anyone heard of self-fulfilling prophecy?  This is the same mechanism that drives us to pursue our best personal vision.

Why is it that a minority subpopulation dictates to the majority what is to happen even if they lie, cheat, steal, misrepresent, and pay for incredibly uncredible evidence?

None of us can cast the first stone, even though we did in Iraq without provocation!  Repeat:  WITHOUT PROVOCATION!

Now we are held in midbreath as to the status of the Middle East?  Yet we cannot see beyond our own prescribed television set!  And what you see, is what you believe; yet you can turn the TV off and carry on about your business.  Are not those who live in Iraq and Lebanon experiencing their own version of 9/11?  Please take a moment to simply imagine how you would feel if your home and all of your possessions, LET ALONE LOVED ONES, perished in a bomb from the sky?

Will we ever learn that conflict is the easier but most definitely NOT the most beneficial to the continuity of life as we (here in the US) know it?  Do we not understand that is one of the main reasons Hezbollah is popular?  Hint:  THEY TAKE CARE OF THEIR DOWNTRODDEN!

And yet our own leaders ignor the plite of our own?

We are neck deep in corrupt, illegal, sh*t my friends.  And we’re all in this together.

Mr Galloway kicks ass.

> I am Muslim.

Congratulations, I am a Jew.

However, I believe in peace.

And by implication most Muslims believe in war? Somehow I strongly doubt that.

> Unlike Galloway.

What?

> he is an anti semite,

Really, how do you know that?  His first wife was Palestinian those that make him an anti Semite?

> as well as being a thief.

What is the evidence for this statement?  Oh You have none?  OK

> one day, he will get his commupance.

Why?

> as he is a communist,

He was a left wing Labourite all of his life, why does that make him a communist?  And even if he were a communist, So what?

> he is also anti islamic.

And your evidence for this is?

> when the jews fall, he will attack islam with equal measure.

What the hell are you trying to say???  The Jews will not fall and neither will Islam. Where are you coming from? bin Laden’s belly?

> thw world would do good without him and his vicious lies.

VIVA GALLOWAY AND ETHICAL HUMANISM.

VIVA GEORGE GALLOWAY

This is a very important article that should be widely posted on the web. Please do so.

The main problem in the USA is Fascism and the Israel Lobby is a major source of American Fascism.

http://www.counterpunch.org/bricmont08122006.html

My frustration has been somewhat alleviated by Mr. Calloway expressing his perspective...mainstream news analysis is so biased towards Israel. The term “Terrorism” is so overused and is never applied to the actions of Israel even though they are practicing “state terrorism.” As an American I am ashamed and frustrated. I have the blood of innocent civilians on my hands.

I am Muslim. However, I believe in peace. Unlike Galloway. he is an anti semite, as well as being a thief. one day, he will get his commupance. as he is a communist,he is also anti islamic. when the jews fall, he will attack islam with equal measure.  thw world would do good without him and his vicious lies.

George Galloway

Sir My best regards to you and also thanks for speaking the truth regardless of its bitterness. Only if world can have some more sincere leaders like you.

A wise man once told me do not speak about any issue in the public unless you know every single question they can ask you, you must have a true arguement by that he means you must have facts.  people cant argue facts and i think how George Galloway see’s it is how the arabs see it. Im not even arab myself.

Can’t speak for others but I do indeed care more about Israel’s slaughtering of innocents than other countries’ transgressions.  Why?  Because it’s MY MONEY that supports Israel’s carnage.  And it’s Israeli carnage that fuels hatred for my country, the USofA.  We will pay for this death and destruction in Lebanon, folks, and I don’t mean only billions of dollars from our pockets.  So yes indeedy, I care a whole lot about Israel’s viciousness.
And while I can’t affect the evil deeds of nations around the world but I am everlastingly hopeful that I might affect the deeds of my own nation.

Let’s not confuse the issue here. You talk about people hating Jews when they are really referring to the decision-makers in Israeli politics. I see the same thing happen the other way around when people mistake hatred of extremist “Islamic” groups as hatred of all Muslims.

Muslims are not bad, just the ones who think that violence is a solution. Now read that last sentence replacing “Muslims” with first “Jews”, and then “People”. Both these wonderful religions are Semitic (i.e. deriving from Shem, son of Noah) and indeed much similarity is found in the esoteric messages of the Qur’an and the Torah for those who can be bothered to read.

This conflict has never been about religion. It has always been a political land-grabbing exercise.

This man sounds like I feel most of the time. I’m glad he hasn’t lost his touch since the ridiculous senate hearing where he left them stunned and speechless.

Mr. Galloway, I salute you.

I entirely agree with George Galloway, as I think many do on this matter.
The media is extremely biased and always seems to report how many Westerners or Jews are killed, but rarely reports on the loss of Arab lives.
Why are Hezbollah called terrorists when they are infact a political party with a military?
Why have Israel killed so many Lebanese civillians?
Why are the UN doing nothing to stop Israel invading southern Lebanon?
Unfortunately a ceasefire looks further away every day, mainly because the two b******* - Tony Blair and George Bush can’t back it.

George Galloway’s interview was the best I’ve seen in a long time.

I do’t know why i have a feeling that Mr Galloway is gonna die in misturiously in a car accident or poisined.
God bless you man and give you the strength to speak the trouth in a time trouth telling is a crim .

Israel is wrong and has only the right to exist not to oppress others. Israel has the right to defend itself but to call all others anti semetic when criticized is wrong and will only backfire. Enough is enough!!! The two state solution must begin for real NOW and Jerusalem must be split wether the israelis like it or not. I am sick of paying for the wars and killings in the middle east with my hard earned money. Our and Israeli leaders better start listening.

Jack

You’re absolutely right.  There is way too much to this entire issue than could ever be written in a couple of paragraphs in a posting.  My point really was the level of vitriol, blatant anti-semitism and lack of understanding in the previous postings.

For example, Syria controlled Lebanon for years, assassinated its Prime Minister and clearly held back the development of the country.  Where is the outrage at Syria?  Iran has been propping up Hezbollah since its inception.  Hezbollah started this recent conflagration.  Where is the outrage at Iran, or even Hezbollah?  I am not going to argue the point of “proportional response”.  If a mosquito keeps biting you all night long, and you then slap it into a pancake, is that a “proportional response?”

I had thought the whole purpose of this site, and these articles, was to stimulate an actual discussion of the facts.  Clearly I was wrong, as evidenced by the fact that half of the posts after mine (to date) are aimed at me, not the issue.  Like the guy who equates my post to the justification for bombing children.  That’s ridiculous.  If Hezbollah didn’t use civvies for human shields we wouldn’t be seeing such tragedy.

I agree with you, Todd. The barking moonbats are loose on this site. It’s pretty obvious that they should have lived in Nazi Germany before the war, when Jews were being shipped to concentration camps. That would have made them happy.
Galloway will be arrested in connection to this latest terrorist activity--I’d bet on it. He has met with these wannabes apparently--so he’s next. Good riddance to bad rubbish. Hang ‘em high.

Hey Todd,
Lebanon really isn’t a country, so why not bomb it.  And those people over there, they really aren’t “people” so why not enslave them?  Right.  You go, Girl.

There wasn’t one thing “abusive” about Galloway’s comments.  He pointed out what a twit the reporter is along with how assinine her positions are/were/remain.  Good on ya, George.  And thanks for the pointed dig at Rupert Murdoch in your reply. If we had more people like you attacking the attackers, the insidious fools like BillO, Rush, and the pack of liars at Faux “News” wouldn’t hold nearly as much sway with the public as they do.

Todd said: “As Mark Twain once said, Better to be thought a fool, than to open one’s mouth and prove it.”

and yet you fall into the same trap as everyone else and open yours. Galloway has facts, you have none. Murdoch IS a corrosive element in the international dialogue, but you only offer him up as a left wing red herring. Think before you post Todd. You have to make some sort of point other than ‘there is so much bile, i could surf on it!’ platitudes.

I love you George!

Why on earth is a link to a video of the raving buffoonery of George Galloway posted on this site that appears to be a serious repository of useful opinion? Are you trying to ruin your lifetime’s good work and reputation, Mr. Scheer? I know nothing about Sky News, but if it’s a Murdoch operation, I don’t care to become a viewer. But George Galloway? Good heavens.

What’s next, a link to the idiotic debate between Galloway and Hitchens awhile back.

Please.

Let’s maintain some standards of excellence here.

“As Mark Twain once said, Better to be thought a fool, than to open one’s mouth and prove it.”

then, todd, you should have kept your mouth closed.

This is all Dick “the decider” Cheney” It is no accident.  The horrific actions being executed by Isreal on Lebanon are a direct order from the US- an insane desire of our present administration for regime change in Iran. The trigger for yet another US attempt at domination in the Middle East. Be afraid people..be very afraid.

On USA C-SPAN channel, I HEARD 2 top Israeli officials admit that it was Israel that invaded the Arab territories in 1967! One question: Why when there are conflicting versions of an event with no unbiased substantiation of either version, wouild anyone deliberately state categorically that one version was the correct view?  Oh yes, aside from the videos of demolished Egyptian aircraft parked in perfect rows - bombed to smithereens, Menachan Began said the 1967 war was “a war of choice” for Israel.

This situation is going nuclear on 9-12-2006:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sjf4ELVeX8

To Todd, Lebanon hasn’t been a country in that sense in years, because their infrastructure has been constantly disrupted by war. It’s sort of a double sided coin.

You’re trying to point out and somewhat justify Israel’s presence in Lebanon in the past by saying Lebanon is too instable to have been considered a nation by the general definition, yet at the same time, it was instable largely because of the presence there.

What I certainly question George Galloway on is his acts against the bias Sky carries, while at the same time, completely eliminating the history on the Israeli side of the conflict, a history which carries with it just as much legitimacy. You can’t just attack bias with bias, cause then, you’re putting out two stories that oppose each other, with truth to both, but treating it as though the stories can’t co-exist.

You’re making it into a false choice, basically, by either saying Israel is right because of the bombs sent over to it, because of the past, or the same business for Lebanon.

There’s a whole story there, and just because a fellow like Galloway sympathizes more with one portion than the other, does not make the other side obselete, any more than Sky’s position on it makes his views obselete.

This is weird. But I want to say it was great that the interviewer actually let Galloway have his say. I kept waiting for an interuption as would have happened here.

Hey Todd, I guess you just proved it.

As quoted by Hilding Linquist: “...which means withdrawal from all occupied lands to the 1967 borders, the release of prisoners, and the sharing of Jerusalem.” You have a recipe for a real and lasting peace in the middle-east.

Over at BlackWednesday.org we’ve been trying to lightly deal with this very issue for a while. However, it is difficult to lay any critique on Israel without being eventually branded ‘anti-semitic’. I am tired of that. Being against the actions of a nation and it’s political leaders is no reflection on the religion of the populace. This is an extremely racist point of view to take, so I’d like my Jewish and Christian brothers and sisters to listen up. I’ll feel sorry for the citizens of Haifa, when the world starts feeling sorry for the citizens of Beirut’s suburbs. No life of any nation or religion is any more or less valuable or necessary than the life of another.

How would it feel to you to have Jerusalem captured by a Muslim nation? How would it feel to you to see the Vatican occupied by Egypt, or Iran?

This is the reality of the Palestinians, the Lebanese, and the rest of the Muslim world. To them, their sacred places are being occupied by an evil aggressor. I say ‘evil’ because that is exactly how Muslims would be branded for taking your precious Jerusalem or Vatican City. To them...we...the west...are evil, and trying to destroy them.

I am not speaking about absolute truth here...just perception. And believe it or not...perception is EVERYTHING.

The west is certainly not evil. More like a spoiled child who wants what he wants, and will get it...no matter the cost. The west is selfish...not evil.

Many people are tired of walking on eggshells about this. Israel has clearly been the chief aggressor in the middle-east since its founding. Their neighbors not being angels themselves, awaken every day to some form of oppression or another from the U.S., Israel, and their allies. This isn’t exactly an environment that will produce friendly people and attitudes. Lebanon has only begun to recover from the first major Israeli occupation, and now their infrastructure is being bombed even further into the past...back into a 3rd world status. This is producing more and more enemies of all things western and ‘white’ across the globe.

Each time an IED, or bomb goes off...each time a soldier or regular person is killed, or injured...every time a kidnapping or rape happens...the security of the United States, England, Israel...you name it...is compromised. It doesn’t matter who did it, who started it, or who finishes it. What matters is that richer, stronger nations basically bully all other nations into submission, or compliance, and then we have the gall to wonder why they hate us. It’s not for our ‘freedom’. It’s due to our policies. If the U.S. would ever ONCE take Israel to task for its war-crimes under the guise of ‘security’, the world would be a safer place. Why do you think they chant “Death to Israel - Death to America”? It’s not because it sounds good together.

I am an American, and I love my country. And part of loving something is being honest when dealing with it. It’s the only way you can grow.

That being said, Israel, and every other nation has the right to defend themselves, and they were defacto attacked in this instance. I disagree with Galloway that the kidnapped Israeli soldiers were in response to any specific act on the part of the nation of Israel. But the history of that nation’s political leaders over the decades in conjunction with the United States is directly responsible for the very creation of these kidnappers and terrorists.

Does the kidnapping of 2 Israeli soldiers demand the invasion and occupation of a sovereign nation? Does it demand the deaths of dozens of Israelis and hundreds of Arabs and Persians?

Israel has the right to exist...not to oppress.

-Chuck
BlackWednesday.org

Mr Galloway, your a legend!!!!
The truth is always strong, hence the reporter making a fool of herself.
Long live Galloway!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THAT IS FANTASTIC!

He’s my hero.

Acquisation?  Is that an accusation of acquisitions?

Most people have already realized that you need to win hearts and minds through diplomacy and dialogue, and I hardly mean government-to-government. I mean people to people. I remember reading about a moment after the start of the Iraq war where a American commander and his soldiers were confronted by a large crowd of angry Iraqis furious about an incident that happened only recently before. Instead of pointing their guns at the crowd and sparking a fear-driven catastrophe, he ordered his soldiers to kneel and place their rifles barrel-down on the ground to promote calm. We need more moments like those. Oh, and impeach Bush.

The end is what struck me in particular...he says that whether you know it or not, the reason you report in the biased way you do is because you think that israeli blood is worth more than the blood of others. That just made my stomach turn because the more I read in academia, the more I see that in the media.

Thank you very much, sir Galloway.....really a credible person

The comments here, and the ones on the link to the Throw Away Your TV site are truly frightening (especially the talk about the Zionist Jews needing to be eliminated).

Galloway is a fool with an enormous ego who will say anything to get on TV or generate exposure.

Gotta love the addition of Rupert Murdoch to the article, raising another big, bad bogeyman into the mix.

Isreal has been violating Lebanon’s borders for years?  Lebanon hasn’t even been a country in the true sense of the word for years, defined by a functioning government that actually controls its sovereign territory.

Truly frightening, the level of ignorance, hatred and bile spewed by these people.  As Mark Twain once said, Better to be thought a fool, than to open one’s mouth and prove it.

didn’t see it but whilst I find the man very awful at least he ahs the b**** to say like he believes.THIS CARNAGE IS INDEFENSIBLE.
Surely the USA can stopit asap if only they had the Galloway B****
David A

George Gallaway is utterly amazing and great.

Long may he live!

Though I’m not prone to acquisations, me thinks (in my humble opinion) Rupert Murdoch is the one our prophecy minded subculture here in the good ol’USA should be looking toward in regard to that hellraising episode of the Bible we all know as Revelations. Is it 4 major channels he owns around the globe?  Call it a flash in the pan, but just what does he wish to accomplish by hogging the grand narrative of the airwaves?  -Kevo

It was a joy to hear Galloway tell off the biased
Sky News anchor. He wasn’t abusive. To let her go on and on with her stupid,untruthful agenda
would have been terribly abusive to our intelli-gence as is so much of the U.S. media. For you to say it was abusive makes us question your
credibility re. the truth. Israel has been vio-lating Lebanese borders for years. Their treat-ment of the Palestinians is criminal. Israel not the U.S. is running the show with billions of our hard-earned tax dollars. The Administration and the Congress are truly Israeli occupied
territory.  Hooray for Galloway who minces no words about how it truly is.

George Galloway’s comments reflect my view of the Middle East conflicts and issues involving Israel that he discussed.

There will be no peace without justice ... which means withdrawal from all occupied lands to the 1967 borders, the release of prisoners, and the sharing of Jerusalem.