considering the political shifts
happening across Europe I wanted to get
the perspective of someone who's stuck
his neck out for years to change the
conversation in the UK in a country Rife
with austerity and destructive
neoliberalism Parliament member George
Galloway's respect party is the
antithesis to the ruling class well
earlier I was joined by Galloway from
London and I first asked him why he
thinks Greece has such differentiation
in recent party victories from the far
right Golden Dawn to the farle Sera
well Golden Dawn are the third party in
Greece now and that's pretty alarming
they're an openly fascistic uh formation
uh calling themselves patriotic but
wearing German swastika type arm bands
uh when they're out on the March their
hatred of immigrants is of a pieace with
other right-wing parties in Europe and
indeed in the United Kingdom uh but the
good news is in parliamentary terms
they'll be completely isolated now it
wasn't just that sza won half the seats
in the parliament the Greek Communist
Party won 15 seats poos the river party
which is a kind of Center left uh party
won 17 seats pasok the old Center left
party being smashed with less than 5% of
the vote so the Golden Dawn are quite
isolated and unless there's actual
breakdown in Greek civil and economic uh
life uh I think we'll not be hearing
that much more of them at least for the
foreseeable future uh I'd take issue if
I may with your characterization of sza
as far left uh I I don't think that
that's true though many of them come
from a farle even ultr left background
uh but I'm not sure uh just what they're
made of once they're staring down the
battle of the European Union the
European Central Bank and the pressure
from the other European governments I
hope they make a stand because that's
what their voters wanted but I've seen
these kind of formations come and go mhm
yeah time will tell it's going to be
really fascinating Evolution uh there on
the ground and of course as Greece uh
moves slightly to the left I mean
countries like Saudi Arabia remain
exactly the same in fact three people
have already been beheaded under the new
king uh yet the Pentagon honoring the
late King abdullah's like beautiful
Legacy with an sa contest I mean now
that America's foreign oil dependence is
finally waning why do you think this
Alliance is still stronger than ever it
is extraordinary and humiliating how all
these world leaders beat a path to a
beheading butchering
barbaric uh
kleptocratic dictatorship in Saudi
Arabia uh they couldn't uh get on their
knees quick enough they couldn't kiss
the nose of the the new king uh who has
a very long and Market history as a
funer of al-Qaeda as one of the first
funders of what became Isis it is
extraordinary that the United States
broke off uh its uh visit the you
leadership of the US broke off its visit
to an important Ally and huge country
India in order to pay homage at the
court uh of the dictator in Riyad uh it
is inexplicable except in this regard
that the United States United Kingdom
and others are in receipt of so many
billions maybe more than billions of
dollars in one way or another from this
dictatorship that it's simply a kind of
business lunch uh and there's no such
thing as a free
lunch and of course as you're mentioning
I mean Saudi Arabia has been one of the
biggest financiers of terrorism funing
Sunni extremism Isis Al Qaeda getting
sued by the 9911 victims families I mean
the US is sending more money of course
now to train rebels in Syria allegedly
to fight Isis I know that we've talked
about this so many times trying to wrap
our minds around it George I mean FSA
Fighters are now saying that the bombing
campaign is actually driving Rebels to
join Isis what is the end game here oh I
don't think they have an end game uh you
shouldn't make the mistake of thinking
our leaders are James Bonds they're more
Austin Powers they have no idea of how
to get out of the treadmill that they
are on uh and they're def they're
they're helping Einstein's definition of
Madness uh come true which is of course
uh to do the same thing uh over and over
again and expect a different result is
the definition of Madness and they're
reinforcing failure they have already
seen uh hundreds of millions of taxpayer
dollars uh go to the so-called moderate
Syrian opposition only promptly to be
stolen by what became Isis what became
Al-Qaeda and yet they're now promising
to do it all again and the result the
grizzly result of beheadings and hostage
taking crucifixion
uh amputations people being pushed off
roofs by the very people who attacked
your country on 911 and they're doing it
all on US taxpayer dollars and uh not a
few British taxpayer pounds I mean you
you would laugh if you didn't cry
because it has its comic uh side the the
the the leaders that we have have just
no idea what to do so they go on doing
what they did already and the Saudi king
whose nose they were kissing uh in the
desert uh over the last couple of days
was the Saudi official whose job was to
build up Al-Qaeda which spawned Isis and
so on and now we're expected to believe
that they're serious uh about fighting
them I made this point to you before uh
if you compare the L of bombardment of
former
Yugoslavia with the level of bombardment
of Isis they are of a different order of
magnitude altogether so it's a somewhat
desilter fight and that presumably is
because they're not quite sure what to
do not quite sure what they will do with
the result I wanted to get your opinion
on this because obviously Iraq has asked
the US to be essentially its Air Force
why isn't Assad more outraged that
America's Coalition is bombing his
country without approval considering how
before the campaign even started he said
unauthorized strikes would be seen as an
act of War I mean is he just letting
them kind of Splinter the opposition
here presumably uh he is viewing with
favor the concentration of support
behind Isis Al-Qaeda has effectively now
fallen in behind Isis and dozens and
bear in mind there's more than a
thousand of these fighting organ
organizations a bewildering alphabet
soup of extremism uh they're all falling
in behind Isis and presumably Assad is
betting on if it comes to the regime
versus Isis there won't be that many
takers in the world for an Isis Victory
Marching In to uh to uh take over
Damascus uh in a country next door to
Israel presumably they think that even
John McCain would bulk at that one
although I'm not so sure when it comes
to John McCain and of course another
country that has been bombing Syria is
Israel uh last week it carried out
strikes in the occupied Goan Heights
territories that killed six Hezbollah
Fighters one Iranian General uh and
Syria Lebanon and Israel have been
returning fire ever since George how
tense is this border and do you think
there's another possibility of Another
fullscale War like the one we saw on
2006 well I I would normally be going to
Beirut this weekend uh which I uh
normally do uh but the television show
that I do has been moved to London uh
which is some kind of indication uh that
allout war on the Lebanon Israel front
uh is a real possibility maybe even a
probability there is fighting going on
now and Israeli General according to the
Israeli media has been killed uh in the
fighting today uh and of course when
Israel bombed uh such high value targets
in ketra in Syria uh just a week or two
ago they must have known that the
resistance in Lebanon would have no
alternative but to respond and respond
they have and whatever the Israeli
response is will have to be responded to
uh in turn so we very well could be back
to 2006 allout War over the Lebanon
Israel Frontier but the difference this
time is that the resistance in Lebanon
is far better armed with far more wide
ranging uh missiles uh with which to
Target each and every place inside
Israel so it's going to be a very very
serious War right if indeed it uh breaks
out and uh this Blood letting of one
atrocity chasing another atrocity is
going to drag us all to hell you know in
the wake of the Charlie ABDO Massacre
Netanyahu also took that opportunity to
exploit the tragedy for his own gain not
only by telling all the Jews in France
to come and live in Israel but also by
lumping the attackers to every group
that opposes the country he said today
we bow our heads in memory of the
victims in Paris however as
representatives of an ancient and proud
people We Stand Tall against evil
because we can overcome it this form of
Islam Islam has many names Isis Hamas
Boko Haram alqaeda al-nusra al-shabab
Hezbollah but they're all branches from
the same poison tree George what's your
response n
charlatan uh they are hypocrites
charlatans these people in the front
line of that March are responsible for
the killing torturing maming jailing
censoring Banning of more journalist
than you could possibly count uh
Netanyahu himself murdered 17
journalists in Gaza just last summer the
Egyptian regime that was at the front of
the March has just jailed International
journalists for 10 years for doing their
job as reporters uh they are utter
charlatans and Netanyahu waving to the
crowd seeking to exploit the situation
is merely the one of the more grotesque
of the uh of the charlatans who were
there uh but I'll give you a laugh I'm
appearing next Thursday on BBC
television's Question Time Flagship
program uh in an area golders Green in
London where quite a number of Jewish
people live and all the Zionist
organizations in Britain are campaigning
to have the BBC ban me from the show so
free speech when it comes to Charlie
hebo but no free speech for an elected
British Member of Parliament who sat in
the House of Commons for almost 30 years
you couldn't make it up thank you so
much I always love having you on to just
cut right through the heart of all this
BS thank you so much George Galloway
respect party member keep up the great
work