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I can only implore you read up on this scumbag and what he stands for and who he associates with.
Political naiveté is no excuse.
Cactus
(Aug 8 06, 06:30)Cactus i agree with 99% of what Galloway says in the sky broadcast we are discussing.
Please tell me what you disagree with, i'm not trying to fight with you, i'm just unclear as to what you are saying.
i had a read of the observer article you linked just then and i must say i strongly disagree with the comparison between Galloway and Mosely the anti-semitic Fascist leader.
Criticising the Israeli government does not make you anti-semitic. This argument keeps getting used as a way for the international community to overlook all of the human rights abuses that the Israeli govt perpetrates with US and UK backing.
vespa
(Aug 8 06, 07:45)Since you seem genuinely interested, I depise Galloway for making common cause with radical Islamists. I feel this is pure poison for the left, and the European body politic in general.
I certainly don't agree with all Israeli policies but I don't want to see them 'liquidated" either. criticism of Israel has gradually become demonisation. Israel is an ‘apartheid state’, a ‘colony’, Zionism is racism. Now it is not at all uncommon to hear the most deliberately hurtful, provocative and malicious false charge of all – that the actions of the Jews of Israel are comparable to those of the Nazis who exterminated six million Jews ( a view which is music to the ears of holocaust revisionists). Gross distortions of the history of Israel and the Zionist movement are widely circulated and by no means exclusively on the far left or the far right.
The demonisation of Israel has been spread on the British left most prominently by the Socialist Workers Party, a group who do not support a two-state solution but instead call for a single Palestinian state – the end of Israel. Along with extremist Islamist groups they have quite successfully turned the genuine humanitarian and internationalist solidarity with the plight of the Palestinians into a hateful campaign of vilification against the whole notion of a Jewish state. Instead of fantasy-Bolshevik sloganeering we now have the parroting of the rhetoric of the most reactionary of Islamist movements in the Middle East. The terrorist group Hamas, despite a charter which contains the most explicit examples of Nazi-style anti-semitism and despite a policy of deliberately targeting civilians, are now considered fighters against oppression by large sections of liberal and left opinion.
The conflict has been transformed into one between ‘good people’ (Palestinians) and ‘bad people’ (Israelis or Zionists). The only Jews who seem able to avoid the broadbrush of guilt are those who agree that the Israel should surrender and be abolished, people routinely described as ‘brave’ without any explanation of what makes such a position, with its potentially calamitous outcome for Israelis, courageous.
Added into this poisonous mixture are the old claims of the existence of secretive but powerful Jewish ‘lobbies’, the notion of the cabal of Jews as the dark masters controlling the ‘puppets’ who rule over us in politics, the economy and the media. It is little wonder then that we are seeing the reappearance in some parts of Europe of old-style anti-semitism. What few would have predicted is that so much of this racist propaganda is coming from the left.
If "we are all Hezbollah now" then ephatically count me out.
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