George Galloway interview on Israel and Hezbullah - a great watch

[Annces]

Watch George Galloway completely disgrace this London newscaster and call her on her lopsided view of the Israel / Lebanon war. She never gives in, but she certainly is shown to be empty headed.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9071731896689197790&q=galloway

[salvorhardin]

1. self-delete

Didn't catch that this was in the I/P forum till too late.

[Annces]

2. I saw that one - pretty funny

Pretending to be a cat or something.

[Fridays Child]

3. Kicked and recommended. I hope a lot of people watch this.

[bluerum]

4. he makes a very important point several times - that the roots of

this conflict go back much much farther than 4 weeks.

I would put it back to post WWII at least if not before.

[reality based]

5. He sure knows how to turn the tables on the interviewer.

Some Democrats need to study his techniques before they go on air with Timmeh or Tweetie or the like.

[breakaleg]

6. This interview is a classic.

I love the way he totally stands up to the interviewer, even in the way he criticizes her wording of the questions.

[RethugAssKicker]

7. How do I view this without using Google

I seem to have audio/video problems, it interrupts every 2 seconds..

[salvorhardin]

8. You can download it

Here's the download link: http://video.google.com/videogvp/GeorgeGalloway.gvp?docid=9071731896689197790
You'll need the Google Video Player too.
http://video.google.com/GoogleVideoPlayerSetup.exe

[Annces]

9. transcript of interview

ANNA . a man not known for sitting on the fence. He passionately opposed the invasion of Iraq and now he feels that Hizbollah is justified in attacking Israel. The "Respect" M.P. for Bethnal Green is in our Central London studios. A very good eveninggood morning rather to you Mr Galloway.

Anna: How can you justify your support for Hizbollah and its leader Sheikh Hassen Nasrullah?

Galloway: What a preposterous way to introduce an item! What a preposterous first question! Twenty-four years ago, on the day my daughter was born and I have just celebrated her 24th birthday, I had to dash at the maternity to see 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 24 years of my daughter's life. The Hezbollah are a prt of the Lebanese 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 Lebanese prisoners who are kidnapped by Israel under the term of their illegal occupation of Lebanon. It's Israel that is invading Lebanon! It's Israel that is attacking Lebanon, not Lebanon that's attacking Israel! You've just been carrying a report "Ten Israeli Soldiers on the border getting ready to invade Lebanon, and you ask us to mourn that operation as if there were some kind of war crime! Israel is invading Lebanon and has killed 30 times

Anna: . (Interruption by Anna)

(Galloway does not stop) more Lebanese civilians 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.

Anna: Rightthe..you put your finger on the button, didn't you when you said that the Hezbollah was set up back in the 1980s in order to remove every Israeli soldiers from Lebanese soil as YOU said had achieved that in 2000. This is a set back.

Galloway: No, they didn't! This is a key point you are concealing from your viewers! Israel was forced out of MOST of South Lebanon in 2000! It still occupies a part of Lebanon since 2000

continued
http://www.counterpunch.org/galloway08152006.html

[OrechDin]

10. I think he disgraced himself and,

Came across as being a bully to a women who kept her cool.

Support for this disgraceful man seems to be out of sync with the Democratic party`s policies on Israel ,I bet he would not get an interview with hardly any Democratic party leaders in the USA who rightfully consider him to be on the fringe.(as do most UK politicians)

[dipsydoodle]

11. Yes he discraced himself

and that may well be the reason that you don't really need to watch a Google video - it's still posted on Sky's on website : http://news.sky.com/skynews/video/0,,,00.html Just scroll down to it.

You'd need to be pretty stupid to believe for one minute he didn't know in advance what the opening statement would be - his response was too quick and also too elaborate.

She's actually a very sound reporter and I find it really odd that anyone outside of the UK should criticise her on an isolated issue. It's shame that Sky didn't post her interview with Marc Regev the spokesman for the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She kept complete control of that interview rebutting him successfully most of the time and persisting when he tried to avoid answering questions. At least they both remained cool and polite toward each other during the interview. Galloway knew he couldn't have pulled that stunt with someone like Paxman - he was just trying, unsuccessfully, to appear clever.

Edited it to add that this is about the fifth time that links to that video has been posted. It's from August 6th and it's old and tired.

[MrPrax]

12. LOL...

I have written off old George (that reality-TV show thing was plain nutz)...but this was a hoot.

He sure knows how to locate the doublethink:

One country has the right to defend itself, the other one doesn't

...it's a mask for pure racism ("A million Arabs are not worth one Jewish fingernail" is official ideology of western elites on many levels) and exactly the type of thing that most in the ME are fighting against...a faith-based Crusade.

It's good that Galloway resists being forced to take the most extreme Zionist view which is standard in these media interviews -- you must conceed that Hezbullah and Hamas are terrorists.

As if disagreeing with Bush and Olmert is somehow politically incorrect or anti-semitism. :eyes:

[Annces]

13. cute kitty

Doublethink, or just plain stonewalling. She didn't answer to any of his points.