Galloway attacked in street - broken jaw, rib

Galloway for me is a bit of a broken clock, right at least twice a day - wrong about many things.

He is however correct in his critique of the western media regarding a number of historic conflicts, but his person, attitude & the way he often presents arguments leave much to be desired. Love him or hate him at least unlike many he's willing to put himself on the line for what he believes (or at least claims to) & isn't afraid to break social conventions to do it. Most of his comments regarding 'supporting bombings' are frankly absurd from what I've read.

He understands & vocalises the reasoning behind much of the terrorism we have endured of late (unlike many in power), that isn't the same as supporting the actions regarding the murder of innocent civilians. The cynical side of me is inclined to presume he's only so vocal about certain issues due to a vested interest.
 
Interesting that the people advocating the violence against George Galloway for having an opinion are those that seem strongly pro Israel.

The very seem 'side' that plays the race, holocaust, or trys to play the moral high ground position whenever they get criticised in the slightest.

Yes Hamas shouldn't be firing rockets at Israel, but what Israel has done is far worse to me. A lot of killed and injured civilians and innocent children in Gaza, probably deliberate or at least without due regard and care to avoid it.

Just look at Israel's history and policies, they have used illegal weapons on civilians in the past if I recall correctly (phosphous gas I believe), their conflicts and heavy handedness with western volunteer / protest organisations that were trying to send aid to Gaza, their discrimination within Israel with policies to make a Jewish state, and effectively push out muslims in the area.

Yet any slight criticism or discussion of Israel that is not supportive and they're quickly up in arms about it.
 
Xordium said:
Only when he suits him and whatever agenda he is pushing he is little better than a demagogue in fact that's pretty much all he is.
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Are you saying he's spending his life going around looking for "agendas", the more controversial the better?

More likely he's a man who sees a lot of injustices in the world, but unlike you or me he makes it his mission to change them.
 
KIA said:
Respect. If only our government would do the same for any foreign hate preaching muslim when they try to enter.
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I agree completely KIA. I heard Hitch say once that we should never be so tolerant that we tolerate intolerance. Seems to be a big problem here in the UK right now. :(
 
What I find disturbing about Galloway is his blatant racism for white people and his anti-Semitic views.

Israel is a race as well as a country, it was created as the only independent State for Jewish people. Ergo a ban on Israel is an anti-Semitic view.
 
craptakular said:
What I find disturbing about Galloway is his blatant racism for white people and his anti-Semitic views.

Israel is a race as well as a country, it was created as the only independent State for Jewish people. Ergo a ban on Israel is an anti-Semitic view.
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Interesting, so if they nuked Gaza from orbit and the UK intervened in the interests of world security then the war with them would be an anti-semitic war, never thought about it like that before! They can do anything they want and we would be wrong to condemn them or intervene as it would be anti-semitic. Huh.
 
craptakular said:
What I find disturbing about Galloway is his blatant racism for white people and his anti-Semitic views.

Israel is a race as well as a country, it was created as the only independent State for Jewish people. Ergo a ban on Israel is an anti-Semitic view.
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Ergo rubbish. 1 in 5 Israelis aren't white or Jewish.
 
joeyjojo said:
Are you saying he's spending his life going around looking for "agendas", the more controversial the better?
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Yes, that's exactly what I am saying. He has a personal worldview and the more rhetoric he can spread about it the better. Like I said he is more a demagogue that a politician.

joeyjojo said:
More likely he's a man who sees a lot of injustices in the world, but unlike you or me he makes it his mission to change them.
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How is that more likely? Are they even mutually exclusive? How do you know I've not done anything to solve injustices in the world. That's a pretty daft assumption when you personally don't know me at all.
 
craptakular said:
Israel is a race as well as a country, it was created as the only independent State for Jewish people. Ergo a ban on Israel is an anti-Semitic view.
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What twisted logic.

Where do Jewish people who also think the state of Israel should be dissolved fit in your world view?.
 
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