well it wouldn't be a Saturday in
Belfast if there weren't protesters
somewhere uh so I don't take it uh all
that seriously the principal impact of
those who tried to ban me from here was
to multiply the ticket sales so as a
sales strategy I suppose uh one should
hope for that kind of opposition every
time thousand people paid 122 to come to
this very historic uh venue to hear my
take on things near and far and uh I
hope that they find it an entertaining
and enlightening experience I come in
peace I have no quarrel with anyone in
Belfast and I hope that people will
listen to what I have to say with an
open mind they say you're sympathetic to
uh what's been described as terrorist
movements here and around the world is
that true well one man's terrorists
another man's Freedom Fighter of course
uh I was a soldier in Nelson Mandela's
Army and he spent 27 years in the D of
aparte called a terrorist but everyone
now knows that wasn't true uh so we have
to analyze conflicts and analyze ways of
resolving them and in the case of the
Palestinian Israeli conflict I have some
novel ideas as to how we might solve
that and I'll be canvasing those this
evening what's your thoughts just
briefly on uh the situation in Iraq and
Syria and Islamic State it's a
catastrophe I mean you really couldn't
make this up uh we warned Mr Blair and
Mr Bush that if they invaded and
occupied an Arab Muslim country they
would unleash dark Forces uh that would
uh eventually overwhelm the state and
that's precisely what's happening we uh
didn't know quite what form it would
take quite how dark it would be uh but
it's pretty dark and it's pretty
overwhelming and the poor Iraqi people
who never asked to be invaded and
occupied in the first place are now
having to deal with this excrescence of
hideous Savage terrorism entirely
sectarian based people are being
murdered even when they're of the same
religion as the people who are murdering
them but they may just have a tiny
Nuance of difference in
interpretation finally your thoughts on
the killing of Mr Foley shocking Savage
evil act uh and uh I could not bring
myself to watch it Tony Blair meanwhile
was sailing on a yacht off the coast of
Sicily not withstanding the stipend he
receives as the peace Envoy in the
Middle East as I say you really couldn't
make this up per