Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News: George Galloway

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Monday, February 25, 2013

George Galloway can't even get his anti-Israel agenda to be self-consistent

From George Galloway's Facebook page: A number of questions have recently arisen I need to deal with. Firstly if people want to talk to the Palestinians they need to contact the Palestine Liberation Organisation. This is the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people and has been for many decades. ... Apartheid Israel is a cancer at the heart of the middle-east....

Thurslinks: Anti-semitism at Ma'an, Galloway slammed, Bklyn PoliSci BDS, HRW bias

From Ian: Website Backed by EU, UNESCO Prints Anti-Semitic Article “[The Jews] feel inferior to the nations and societies in which they live, because of the hostility and evil rising in their hearts towards others and for their plots and schemes against the nations who know with certainty that the Jews are the root of conflict in the world, wherever they reside.”This sentence, as reported by Palestinian Media Watch, is taken from the Palestinian...

Galloway trying to prop up Assad with Gaza convoy

Honest Reporting notes an article in The Times of London: The Gaza aid convoy spearheaded by George Galloway is splitting apart because the overland route passes through Syria. The Times of London (paywall) reports: In February, leaked e-mails between Mr Galloway and President Assad’s media adviser were published in which he referred to the Syrian President as “His Excellency” and the Baathist state as “the last bastion of Arab dignity”. The Syrian...

Galloway defends Syrian regime, blames Israel

Those 6000 people murdered in Syria? That's not the issue. From George Galloway's radio show: (h/t Yoe...

George Galloway whines that he is "exiled from Palestine" (updated)

From Ma'an: Former British MP George Galloway appealed to Egypt on Wednesday to reconsider the government's decision to deny him entry to the country as he heads the fifth Viva Palestina convoy heading for Gaza. "I have no wish to have a fight with the Egyptian government; my fight is with Israel," Galloway said in a statement issued from Paris. "I am already forbidden to enter Palestine by Israel. If I am now unable to enter through Egypt this...

Egypt reiterates: Galloway banned from Egyptian soil

In light of the "Viva Palestina 5" convoy that is heading towards Egypt, Hossam Zaki of the Egyptian Foreign Affairs ministry has emphasized that George Galloway is banned from entering Egypt under any circumstances. He also said that Egypt does not allow land convoys to enter Gaza and restricts the number of people who can enter at one time. He stated that the goods must be unloaded at El Arish where the Egyptian Red Crescent takes over all...

Report: Egypt arrests senior Hamas official in Cairo

Palestine Press Agency and PalVoice, both Fatah mouthpieces, are quoting Egyptian security forces that Egypt has arrested a senior Hamas official at Cairo International Airport. The Hamas member is Mohamed Debabeche, known as "Abu Radwan", the commander of the General Security Service who reports to Hamas interior minister Fathi Mohammed. The sources linked his arrest with the recent discovery of large shipments of secure radio equipment that were...

Galloway begs Mubarak to let his latest Gaza convoy through

George Galloway has been preparing a new convoy to Gaza, but he has one major problem: the fact that Egypt has banned him for the trouble he caused last time. Galloway was deported from Egypt last January after his "Viva Palestina" convoy members started a protest that ended up killing an Egyptian policeman. Later, Egypt banned all of these publicity-seeking convoys from...

Which Gazans get first choice on aid? One guess.

The JC publishes an article by a Gazan journalist about what life is like for him in Gaza, with sporadic electricity and unsafe tap water, among other problems. Of course, no one is arguing that Gaza is a paradise, just that the inability for journalists to to surf the web more than eight hours a day is hardly a humanitarian crisis. Most interesting was this one section: I drive to work in my used car. I have a Fiat from 1984, which cost me $5,000,...

Galloway group attacked by Muslims

Irony:George Galloway's entourage has been attacked by "students" of a controversial Muslim leader, the politician's spokesman has said.The Respect party candidate for Poplar and Limehouse was campaigning in Watney Market, east London, when three men allegedly abused and lunged at him. The spokesman said that the trio pushed members of the group and would have attacked Mr Galloway if they could. Police arrested and bailed three men on suspicion...

Gunbattles, kidnappings, rocket fire in Gaza. The usual.

PCHR reports that there was a gunbattle in the Jabalya camp in Gaza yesterday, in which hand grenades were used. One was injured.Also yesterday, there was the usual kidnapping and beating of a man in Gaza:At approximately 21:30 on Sunday, 14 March 2010, Salah al-Masri, an n employee in the Palestinian National Authority, was in a shop near his house in al-‘Oyoun Street in al-Nasser neighborhood in the north of Gaza city. In the meanwhile, a Golf...

Hamas/Galloway fundraiser in Boston tonight

From "Justice With Peace": When: Monday, February 1, 2010, 6:30 pmWhere: Palestinian Cultural Center for Peace • 41 Quint Ave • (Green Line B to Harvard Stop, Glennville Ave to Quint) • Allston Fundraiser for Viva Palestina Gaza Aid Convoys with The honorableGEORGE GALLOWAYMember of British ParliamentLeader of the Viva Palestina convoys to GazaLifelong international activist...

Egypt bans all Gaza aid convoys

From Daily News Egypt:Aid convoys bound for the Gaza Strip will now be banned from traveling across Egypt after activists this week clashed with police, the foreign minister said in remarks published on Saturday.Ahmed Aboul Gheit told government newspaper Al-Ahram that members of one convoy led by British MP George Galloway committed “criminal” acts on Egyptian soil on their way to the blockaded Palestinian coastal enclave.“Egypt will no longer allow...

Galloway deported from Egypt

Too funny: (h/t PTWatch)Leader of the Viva Palestinan convoy and British MP George Galloway was deported from Egyptian soil moments after he set foot on it, crossing the border at Rafah from Gaza, organizers of the convoy said.A statement from the group said Galloway and a colleague "were forcibly pushed into a van, refused exit and told that they were leaving the country," as they entered Egypt.Egyptian security sources confirmed the decision to...

"Peace" protestors riot in Egypt

George Galloway's "Viva Palestina" convoy members started rioting in El Arish when the Egyptian government told them that some of the items that they planned to bring to Gaza must go through Israel.A security official said the vehicles in question are carrying pickup trucks, sedans, generators and other equipment, which are not allowed to pass through the Egyptian crossing at Rafah and had to go via Israel. Only medical aid and passengers are allowed...

Egypt calls George Galloway a liar

From The Daily News Egypt:The Viva Palestina convoy intended for the Gaza Strip finally docked in the port of Al-Arish some 40 km away from the Rafah border crossing after a protracted delay due to a disagreement over its appropriate landing destination between convoy members and the Egyptian government....[T]he Egyptian foreign ministry launched a scathing attack on convoy leader British Respect MP George Galloway, claiming that his comments regarding...

Egypt forces Galloway to re-route

From Ma'an:Egypt refused permission on Thursday for a Gaza-bound aid convoy in led by British MP George Galloway to enter the country through the Red Sea port of Nuweiba.There will be "no entry from Nuweiba. Entry can only be through Al-Arish," on the Mediterranean coast, Hossam Zaki told the French news agency AFP.The Viva Palestina convoy of 250 trucks and ambulances laden with European, Turkish and Arab donations of food and medical supplies arrived...

Galloway: "I never supported Hamas"

From CTV:British MP George Galloway says ambulances and medical supplies he gave to Hamas were meant for Palestinians battered by the Gaza conflict, dismissing the reasons behind a decision to block his entry into Canada. "I have not now, nor have I ever been a supporter of Hamas," Galloway told CTV's Power Play by phone from New Jersey on Tuesday. "If I had a vote in the...

Galloway makes it to Gaza; aid goes through Israel

Despite George Galloway's insistence that all of the aid of his "Viva Palestina" convoy go through Rafah, he ended up caving - all the while declaring victory:An agreement was reached late Sunday afternoon between the Egyptian authorities and Galloway that medical aid and all 500 convoy members were to go through Rafah, while non-medical aid such as food, toys, and clothes would be emptied from Viva Palestina trucks and repackaged by the Red Crescent...

Galloway ties himself up in his own "logic"

Moonbat George Galloway explains why all that "desperately needed aid" for Gaza has strings attached:The problem is that the authorities are insisting that some of the vehicles, led by the big red Manchester fire engine and the truck carrying a generator, should cross through an Israeli checkpoint, rather than this one. Egypt is extremely sensitive to Israeli demands, no doubt with US leverage as well. But our attitude is that we've come all this...