JUST NU: Israel anfaller Libanon [2006]

Sky News: Joining me now is a man who’s not known for sitting on the fence. He passionately opposed the invasion of Iraq and now he feels that Hizbullah is justified in attacking Israel. The Respect MP for Bethnel Green is in our London studio. A very good evening to you Mr. Galloway. How do you JUSTIFY your support for Hizbullah and its leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah?

George Galloway: What a preposterous way to introduce an item and what a preposterous first question. Twenty four years ago, on the day my daughter was born and I’ve just celebrated her 24th birthday, I had to dash to the maternity hospital to see her giving birth from a mass demonstration in London against the Israeli invasion and occupation of Lebanon. Israel has been invading and occupying Lebanon all of my 24yr old daughter’s life. The Hizbullah are a part of the national resistance who are trying to drive, having successfully driven most Israelis from their land in 2000, Israel from the rest of their land and to get back those thousands of Lebanese prisoners who were kidnapped by Israel under the terms of their illegal occupation of Lebanon.

It’s Israel that’s invading Lebanon. It’s Israel that’s attacking Lebanon. Not Lebanon that’s attacking Israel. You’ve just been carrying a report of 10 Israeli soldiers on the border getting ready to invade Lebanon and you ask us to mourn that operation as if it were some kind of war crime. Israel has invaded Lebanon and has killed thirty times more Lebanese than have died in Israel. So, it’s YOU who should be JUSTIFYING the evident bias which is written on EVERY line of your face and is in EVERY nuance of your voice and is loaded in EVERY question that you ask.

Israel is a terrorist state

you believe that Israeli blood is more worth than Lebanese or Palestinian

Enligt Förenta staterna, vars definition ligger till grund för terroriststämplingen av Hamas, är "internationell terrorism" politiskt motiverade våldshandlingar som avser att 1) skrämma eller pressa en civilbefolkning 2) påverka en regerings politik genom samma metoder 3) påverka en regerings uppträdande genom mord eller kidnappning.

Dessa definitioner av internationell terrorism framstår som exakta beskrivningar av Israels agerande i Palestina och Libanon.

Hur kommer det sig att regeringen inte terroriststämplar den israeliska regeringen? Det förefaller som att den svenska regeringens bedömning av en våldsaktion i Israel-Palestinakonflikten varierar efter förövarens identitet.

När palestinsk milis tillfångatog en israelisk soldat den 25 juni fördömdes "kidnappningen" i ett officiellt uttalande av utrikesminister Jan Eliasson:

"Kidnappningar av detta slag kan aldrig accepteras."
Kanske hade Eliasson kommit till denna uppfattning först den 25 juni eftersom han inte uttalat sig då israelisk militär den 24 juni tillfångatog två palestinska milismän.

Men varför kom inget motsvarande utspel när israelisk militär natten till den 29 juni gick in i palestinska städer och tillfångatog 20 palestinska parlamentsledamöter varav åtta ministrar?

Hur hade den svenska regeringen agerat om scenariot varit det omvända, om väpnade palestinier i en nattlig raid in i Israel bortfört ledamöter i Knesset, däribland Israels finansminister, socialminister och arbetsmarknadsminister?

George Galloway to Sky News:

What a preposterous way to introduce an item and what a preposterous first question. [...]

You've just been carrying a report of 10 Israeli soldiers on the border getting ready to invade Lebanon and you ask us to mourn that operation as if it were some kind of war crime. Israel has invaded Lebanon and has killed thirty times more Lebanese than have died in Israel. So, it’s YOU who should be JUSTIFYING the evident bias which is written on EVERY line of your face and is in EVERY nuance of your voice and is loaded in EVERY question that you ask.

Bush och Olmert måste ju veta att deras aktioner föder mer motstånd. Jag börjar fundera på om det inte är just kriget de vill ha. Det skulle vara intressant att veta hur stora vinster man gör inom vapenindustrin nu.