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George Galloway in conversation with Yvonne Ridley

red letter | 06.05.2004 10:50

"I'm Not the Only One"

Join Yvonne Ridley, the award winning journalist, as she talks to George Galloway on the launch of his new book "I'm not the Only One".

Book on special offer

Monday 17 May, 6.30pm
Bookmarks, 1 Bloomsbury Street, London WC1 nr Tootenham tube st
Tickets £3 (need to be reserved in advance from Bookmarks)
Phine 020 7637 1848 or email  galloway@bookmarks.uk.com

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annon

06.05.2004 14:07

annon


wrong...

06.05.2004 15:08

That's the wrong website

That was set up by a right winger...

The correct website is www.respectcoalition.org

Matt


Some much needed humour

06.05.2004 23:32


  http://www.respectcoalition.co.uk

If you want some light entertainment at the expense of the MP for Baghdad Central, this is the better choice website. 'Respect' to whoever made the site.

Gorgeous George


ummm..

07.05.2004 00:04

not to sure about the much needed humour, if you read carefully
i thought it was good, then i read it for a bit...

Quotes from the Respect Lunancy Page

"Opposition to all forms of discrimination based on race, gender, ethnicity, religious beliefs (or lack of them), sexual orientation, disabilities, national origin or citizenship. Unless somebody is from Israel, or supports Israel, or is Jewish, or has a Jewish-sounding name"

"Support for the people of Palestine and opposition to the apartheid system that oppresses them, that apartheid system being the existence of the state of Israel.

"It was two years ago that every news outlet in the world focused its gaze on the Palestinian refugee camp in Jenin where Israel sought to root out what it called a "nest of terror". The press was kept away and rumours spread of a terrible massacre; there were calls for an immediate UN inquiry. In the end, it turned out that the Palestinians had engaged the Israelis in battle; many were proud of their steadfastness and defiance. A later UN report put the confirmed death toll at 52, suggesting that as many as half that number had been fighters rather than civilians."

and linked to it..

"During the siege, Jenin stirred global outrage. MPs could not keep away from the television cameras, so determined were they to condemn this heinous act. One British newspaper said that of all the recent atrocities - Bosnia, Rwanda, Chechnya, Kosovo - none was worse than Jenin."

Yes, some of us are still awaiting the retractions, corrections, and apologies.

"The Sharon crowd would say that the explanation is simple - people are unfair to Israel - and the solution equally straightforward: the world should get off Israel's back. But I draw a different conclusion. It is right to hold Israel to a high standard, right to expose the daily brutalities of occupation."

Now hang on a minute. The MPs, idiot journalists, and anyone else who joined in the chorus of outrage of what they perceived was going on in Jenin did not "expose the daily brutalities of occupation". They fabricated a version of events and protrayed it as an established fact, and when their story was exposed as being little more than a sick fairytale they either snuck away from telling it and pretended they'd never done so, or persisted in the lie that a massacre had occurred. If anything was exposed by this episode, it was the daily brutalities of an anti-Israeli agenda on the part of certain sections of the media"

Or is it just me having a humour bypass?

heather


and how about the bit about 'Pakis'???

07.05.2004 10:04

Seriously. Check out the second section of the front page ('An Amendment').

I mean I like a good bit of satire, but just where is this coming from?

type


Exactly!

07.05.2004 12:11

To go back to my original point, "It was made by some right-winger".

I understand people have a problem with Galloway, but siding with a reactionary racist who actually has enough time on his hands to make an almost identical webpage to someone else doesn't seem very revolutionary to me...

Matt


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