This is a shameful episode for Canada.
George Galloway is an honest and outspoken man, and it is only for being honest and outspoken that he was excluded from Canada.
What are the apologists for Israel's bloody deeds so afraid of that they must try to stop those who disagree with them from speaking?
The answer of course is always the same nonsense: Hamas is a terrorist organization.
In fact, Hamas is a democratic and honest organization, perfectly willing to come to a modus vivendi with Israel, but not willing to do whatever Israel demands before there even are talks. Perfectly sensible.
It is all so bitterly ironic. Israel was founded with the ugly terror of the Irgun and the Stern and other murderous groups, but now it is everyone else who is a terrorist.
And we must never forget Israel just killed 400 children and a 1000 others for nothing.
All Galloway did was bring some emergency supplies and turn them over to the people who are the government in Gaza.
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"I would argue that Galloway's message (whatever it is), has become lost in his own self-importance..."
Self importance? Bringing emergency supplies to people Israel just decimated and still keeps penned up like livestock?
It was, anyway, David Hume who so rightly pointed out that seeking for the glory of worthy deeds was itself worthy.
People - none of them - ever acts without a component of ego; it just is not possible.
And anyone who claims otherwise is either being dishonest or a fool.
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"A blowhard of a "career politician" of over 20 years in office is hardly credible either Mr. Galloway. Have you had any position of power while in office? What has he done for his local constituents? We don't need any hypocritical politicians here from overseas, we already have enough of our own!"
You, sir, may believe such rubbish, but I do think that in a free country others are entitled to decide for themselves.
That is the very essence of a free society, not the poor judgment and still poorer information of people like yourself and the Conservative government.
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"This is a lie. Hamas has called for the destruction of Israel. That's very "moderate" of them. Jeez. I'm willing to listen to both sides but I can't recall the Israeli government every publicly calling for the genocide of Palestinians."
Oh please, Israel just murdered 400 kids plus a thousand others, and it keeps 1,500,000 people penned up like cattle.
And just a little while before that, it killed another 1,400 in Lebanon.
It refuses to tell the UN even where it dropped its godawful cluster bombs by the thousands, so that those horrible things can keep killing.
Only someone with a rather bizarre imagination could possibly believe Hamas could ever do anything serious against Israel. That's a more ridiculous claim than saying Canada threatens the U.S.
And, although I am sure it has escaped your attention, Hamas never used the word genocide. It only refuses to recognize Israel - a common negotiating position - and says Israel will come to an end eventually.
You might check your dictionary, but that last is not the same thing as genocide.
It is indeed something that a secret report of the CIA’s also said recently, saying Israel would likely dissolve into a Palestinian-Jewish state with many settlers returning to the U.S. and Europe. All within twenty years.
My, how dreadful.
IF YOU ARE AGAINST GEORGE GALLOWAY, IT DOES TEND TO MEAN YOU ACCEPT THIS
