George Galloway mrut speaker I say to
the chair of the Foreign Affairs select
committee who's not in his place that
the International Community is not
impotent it's merely feigning impotence
as an excuse for its failure to carry
out its duties and the foreign office
Minister today though his words were
more robust essentially mask the same
inaction as the languid and complacent
foreign SE who performed in front of us
on Monday compare and contrast British
diplomacy on this with our response to
Zimbabwe or more particularly to the
Russian conflict with Georgia the
foreign secretary was everywhere then
lecturing the Russians on what they must
do he even flew to Kiev and stood on the
dividing line and told Russia what the
International Community required of them
here our ministers boast of writing a UN
resolution which has been completely
ignored I'd be embarrassed to say that I
was the author of a resolution which
passed not with an international
consensus as the minister said but with
the exstension of the United States
which was the only vote that mattered if
that resolution was then completely
ignored and if the government had no
intention of doing anything to make its
terms effective and that's what we have
the foreign secretary says he doesn't
want what he calls gesture politics
supported widely in the house today like
an arms embargo like recalling
ambassadors like requiring the
withdrawal of Israeli
ambassadors because he doesn't want to
isolate
Israel but he and the government were in
the Forefront of those isolating the
elected government of Palestine which
was Mass they don't like to talk about
it now they like to talk about the
president abas who's actually now
illegally occupying the presidential
chair in ramala they refused to
acknowledge that the Palestinian people
voted for Hamas now I have never been a
supporter of Hamas like the noble and
right honorable gentleman from
Manchester Gorton I was all my life a
supporter of and a friend of the late
president
Arafat the Israeli attitude to president
Arafat and fata when they were in power
was exactly the same as their attitude
now to the Palestinian administration of
Hamas they drowned arafat's
Administration in Blood by a policy of
assassination settlement wall building
and economic embargo the British
government wholeheartedly supported the
Embargo of Gaza to punish the
Palestinian people for voting for a
Hamas
Administration the government's double
standards in this affair are so Brazen
that people are boiling with rage
outside in the country if not absolutely
clearly in this building outside people
are Furious and the danger of
radicalization of particularly the
Muslim youth in this country is clear
and present as a danger the government's
always looking for some cleric to refuse
a visa to or some Islamic organization
to proscribe to try and curb
radicalization how radical does the
minister think British Muslims feel
right now as they watch on the news
right now the bombing of the Ana and the
slaughter of children that has been
adumbrated here today their policy of
setting back extremism and
radicalization has been set back by
their own complacency
and ineffectual uh policy towards this
especially when compared with their
militancy on subjects like Russia and
Georgia I don't have time to say all
that I have to say Mr Deputy speaker but
I want to say to those who were boasting
today how I'm amazed at how many members
of parliament have been in
sidat did any of them when they were
there see the ruins of the Palestinian
villages on on which sidot is built the
ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian
people from sidot on the south of Israel
did any of them know that the refugee
camps of Gaza are filled with the people
who used to live in the villages on
which sedarat is now built this didn't
start on the 27th of December it didn't
even start with respect to the uh
honorable lady from Milton Kings who
made a great speech in 1967 when cido
and other places were clear
this started in this building when
Arthur balur on behalf of one people
promised a second people the land which
belonged to a third people we are the
authors of this tragedy everything that
has flown has flown as a result of that
declaration and for that reason if no
other the British foreign office needs
to get its finger out and stand up and
be counted alongside the British people
demonstrating on the street of London
Birmingham Manchester leads Edinburgh
Glasgow and elsewhere let's see some
urgency from the minister action speaks
louder than words and from this
government so far we've had no action at
all