The report:
GAZA CITY (AFP) — Firebrand British MP George Galloway on Tuesday donated thousands of dollars and dozens of vehicles to the Hamas-run government in the Gaza Strip after arriving in an aid convoy."We are giving you now 100 vehicles and all of their contents, and we make no apology for what I am about to say. We are giving them to the elected government of Palestine," Galloway said at a press conference in Gaza City.
Galloway said he personally would be donating three cars and 25,000 pounds (35,000 dollars) to Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniya as he dared the West to try to prosecute him for aiding what it considers a terror group.
"I say now to the British and European governments, if you want to take me to court I promise you there is no jury in all of Britain who will convict me. They will convict you."
Galloway made the announcement at an outdoor conference in the presence of several senior Hamas officials, and his words were greeted by shouts of "Allahu Akbar!" (God is Great)....
Oh yes, making no apologies for donating vehicles to a group that has called for the destruction of a UN member state. That has deliberately targeted women and children for violence, that has said all kinds of nasty and racist things about Jews, and assorted other non-Muslims. George Galloway gleefully donates to the cause of Islamic supremacism. Galloway was a friend to Saddam Hussein, no surprise that he is the closest British ally of Hamas.
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Sorry, Al, but I think Galloway has a good point. I do not disagree with your characterization of Hamas, nor do I relish cooperating with them, but it is necessary. They cannot be ignored and they cannot be pushed aside. Most importantly, their actions in the past (a hard thing to pin down anyway, given that it is a group made up of individuals) cannot be the justification for refusing to recognize their power and authority. They must be changed and reformed, not denounced, outlawed, and ignored.
Lucas,
As I said, Galloway is a blathering idiot. He is willfully omitting how exactly Hamas came to power, they didn't just win the election, they systematically executed the PA officials in Gaza, defenestrating many, shooting others, torturing many. Imagine after the Republicans won an election they went and killed every Democrat in Washington D.C., and anyone who claimed to be a Democrat as a citizen was tortured and/or intimidated.
Would the Republican government gain much international respect? Would it be right to honor those people with recognition?
Now Galloway didn't just say he would deal with the Hamas government, he said it with pride, he said it with palpable resentment for his own country and the Euro states. Galloway is a supporter of Hamas, as he was a supporter of Saddam, and virtually any other anti-Semitic Islamic movement. I await the day when Galloway defends the ELECTED government of Israel with such vigor, since apparently, in Galloway's world you must only be elected. This makes his support of the boycott of Israel very suspect.
Galloway is a revolting troll who should be hung from the yard arm.
Galloway is a fringe crackpot; nobody in Britain takes him seriously, he just attracts media attention because he's a politician who actually HAS a personality and independent opinions (albeit terrible ones).
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