joining me now as a man not known for
sitting on the fence he passionately
opposed the invasion of Iraq and now he
feels that hisbah is Justified in
attacking Israel the respect MP for
Bethel green is in our Central London
Studio a very good evening a good
morning rather to you Mr Galloway how do
you justify your support for hisbah and
its leader shik Hassan nzala a
Preposterous way to introduce an item
and what a Preposterous first question
24 years ago on the day my daughter was
born and just celebrated her 24th
birthday I had to dash to the maternity
hospital to see her given 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-year-old
daughter's life the hisbah are a part of
the Lebanese National 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 of
Lebanese prisoners who were kidnapped by
Israel under the terms of their illegal
occupation of Lebanon it's Israel that's
invading Lebanon it's Israel that's
attacking Lebanon not Lebanon that's
attacking Israel you've just been
carrying a report of 10 Israeli soldiers
on the border getting ready to invade
Lebanon and you ask us to mourn that
operation as if it were some kind of War
crime Israel is invading Lebanon and has
killed 30 times more Lebanese cili than
have died in Israel so it's you who
should be justifying the evident bias
which is written on every line on your
face and is in every Nuance of your
voice and is loaded in every question
that you ask
right the uh you put your finger on the
button though didn't you when you said
that hisbah was set up back in the 1980s
in order to remove every Israeli soldier
from Lebanese soil as you said it
achieved that in 2000 it this is a
setback it didn't this is a key point
that you're you're concealing from your
viewers Israel was forced out of most of
the south of Lebanon in 2000 it still
occupies a part of Lebanon since
2000s area is subject to latest draft
resolution thousand of Lebanese
prisoners have been kidnapped by
Israel for Ministry spokesman who said
that the three Lebanese who have been uh
captured perhaps you'd like to use that
word have been before not those these
are not prisoners of law oh please have
a slightly longer memory than 4 weeks
I'm talking about the thousands of
prisoners taken during the 18 years of
Israeli occupation illegal occupation of
South Lebanon these are the prisoners
that have to be released in exchange for
the Israeli soldiers that were captured
at the beginning of this wave of the
crisis can I ask you about a report
that's in today's Sunday Telegraph which
showed that Iran has given hisbah long
range uh missiles capable of targeting
any part of Israel uh Iran according to
this Iranian MP who helped found hisbah
has also said that he's Iran has given
the organization organization author
authorization rather to Target Tel Aviv
can you blame Israel for wanting to
destroy those missiles this is
preposterous America has given Israel uh
missiles that can Target not just every
city in Lebanon but every city in the
Arab and Muslim world including Iran why
should America be allowed to give long
range missiles to Israel including
hundreds of nuclear missiles but Iran to
a terrorist organization but they're not
a terrorist organ ization only in the
mind of rert Murdoch's sky and the times
and the Sun and the News of the World
terrorist prescribed terrorist
organizations one man's terrorist is
another man's Freedom Fighter we know
that perfectly well in most people's
eyes they are deemed to be they had a
choice didn't they let's let's let's
understand this they had a choice like
the IRA no no
nothing listen Anna I'm saying they had
a choice to absorb the idea of politics
they cabinet ministers Anna one man's
terrorist is another man's Freedom
Fighter you are totally wrong in saying
that in most people's eyes Hezbollah are
terrorists in most people's eyes Israel
is a terrorist State it's the fact that
you cannot comprehend that fact that
leads to the bias which runs through all
of your reporting and every question
that you've asked me in this
interview mhm can can I ask you one
question I I was relating to the IRA and
shin Fain they have decided to embrace
politics hisbah had the chance to
embrace politics they've already got two
cabinet ministers they're well respected
in the South politics they are what I'm
say of the if you listen to me I'm
saying they've got two cabinet ministers
already they had a chance to do that why
did they need to capture and kill
Israeli soldiers on the border surely
They Se sets back their to be a
political force inside a democratic
Lebanon look because Israel occupies
their country and holds thousands of
their compatriots as kidnapped hostages
in their dungeons it's really very
simple except if you think only in a
clock that goes back four weeks if you
know and you're old enough to know
better that this origins of this
conflict are not 4 weeks or 4 years or
14 years but decades old you want people
to think that the crisis started when
the clock started [ __ ] on Sky News
unfortunately the people in Lebanon I
ask you one yeah I want to ask you one
final question do you think that the the
four weeks that we've seen as you
mentioned the 26 days of this crisis has
set back hezbollah's ambition Ambitions
not not only are isra soldiers now over
the Border let me finish let me finish
would you mind let me finish please not
only are Israeli soldiers over the
Border in sizable numbers but also their
claims to be a good political
organization ation to help a democratic
Lebanese government with the syrians
who've also now left an independent
state that has also come to blows as
well what a silly question what a silly
person you are hisbah is winning the war
you can see on the other half of the
screen hisbah is more popular my
question hisbah is more popular today in
Lebanon amongst Christians amongst
sunnis among Shiites amongst all Arabs
amongst all Muslims than it has ever
been it's Israel who lost the war and
Bush and Blair for politically
organizing the war who've lost
politically this is a defeat for Bush
and Blair and Israel everybody but you
can see it let me separate out that
question then is it a setback given that
hisbah was set up in order to get
Israeli soldiers off Lebanese soil that
there are now more Israeli soldiers on
Lebanese soil than there were 26 days
ago uh uh well they seem to be getting a
bloody good hiding on the other half of
the screen that I'm watching maybe you
can't see it but I'm watching them
getting a bloody good hiding in the war
so if that's a success I'm not sure what
a failure would look like the reality is
that this conflict will go on the United
Nations resolution solves nothing gives
Lebanon nothing gives the prisoners in
Israeli dungeons nothing and as an clued
my AR while colleague was just saying
Israel has just kidnapped even more
Palestinian politicians cabinet
ministers members of parliament and
thousands of others held in Israeli
Dungeons and this war will continue
until the overall settlement is reached
that settlement must mean Israeli
withdrawal from all occupied territory
that it currently holds since the War in
1967 the release of all political
prisoners and a state for the
Palestinians with East Jerusalem as its
capital no justice no peace you're not
going out of business as a news caster
in Jerusalem anytime soon believe me
well as usual you have prompted a huge
email response both for and against you
Mr Galloway so we'll leave it there I
have to say that some people might find
it offensive when more families are
mourning their dead to you to hear you
say that it was D you don't give a damn
you don't even know about the
Palestinian families you don't even know
that they exist tell me the name of one
member of the seven members of the same
family slaughtered on the beach in Gaza
by an Israeli warship you don't even
know their name but you know the name of
every Israeli soldier who's been taken
prisoner in this conflict because you
believe whether you know it or not the
Israeli blood is more valuable than the
blood of Lebanese or Palestinians that's
the truth and the Discerning of your
viewers already know
it