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George Galloway mrut speaker I say to

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the chair of the Foreign Affairs select

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committee who's not in his place that

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the International Community is not

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impotent it's merely feigning impotence

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as an excuse for its failure to carry

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out its duties and the foreign office

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Minister today though his words were

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more robust essentially mask the same

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inaction as the languid and complacent

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foreign SE who performed in front of us

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on Monday compare and contrast British

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diplomacy on this with our response to

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Zimbabwe or more particularly to the

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Russian conflict with Georgia the

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foreign secretary was everywhere then

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lecturing the Russians on what they must

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do he even flew to Kiev and stood on the

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dividing line and told Russia what the

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International Community required of them

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here our ministers boast of writing a UN

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resolution which has been completely

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ignored I'd be embarrassed to say that I

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was the author of a resolution which

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passed not with an international

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consensus as the minister said but with

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the exstension of the United States

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which was the only vote that mattered if

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that resolution was then completely

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ignored and if the government had no

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intention of doing anything to make its

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terms effective and that's what we have

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the foreign secretary says he doesn't

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want what he calls gesture politics

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supported widely in the house today like

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an arms embargo like recalling

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ambassadors like requiring the

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withdrawal of Israeli

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ambassadors because he doesn't want to

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isolate

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Israel but he and the government were in

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the Forefront of those isolating the

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elected government of Palestine which

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was Mass they don't like to talk about

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it now they like to talk about the

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president abas who's actually now

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illegally occupying the presidential

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chair in ramala they refused to

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acknowledge that the Palestinian people

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voted for Hamas now I have never been a

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supporter of Hamas like the noble and

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right honorable gentleman from

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Manchester Gorton I was all my life a

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supporter of and a friend of the late

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president

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Arafat the Israeli attitude to president

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Arafat and fata when they were in power

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was exactly the same as their attitude

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now to the Palestinian administration of

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Hamas they drowned arafat's

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Administration in Blood by a policy of

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assassination settlement wall building

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and economic embargo the British

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government wholeheartedly supported the

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Embargo of Gaza to punish the

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Palestinian people for voting for a

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Hamas

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Administration the government's double

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standards in this affair are so Brazen

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that people are boiling with rage

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outside in the country if not absolutely

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clearly in this building outside people

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are Furious and the danger of

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radicalization of particularly the

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Muslim youth in this country is clear

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and present as a danger the government's

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always looking for some cleric to refuse

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a visa to or some Islamic organization

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to proscribe to try and curb

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radicalization how radical does the

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minister think British Muslims feel

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right now as they watch on the news

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right now the bombing of the Ana and the

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slaughter of children that has been

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adumbrated here today their policy of

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setting back extremism and

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radicalization has been set back by

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their own complacency

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and ineffectual uh policy towards this

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especially when compared with their

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militancy on subjects like Russia and

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Georgia I don't have time to say all

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that I have to say Mr Deputy speaker but

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I want to say to those who were boasting

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today how I'm amazed at how many members

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of parliament have been in

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sidat did any of them when they were

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there see the ruins of the Palestinian

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villages on on which sidot is built the

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ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian

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people from sidot on the south of Israel

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did any of them know that the refugee

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camps of Gaza are filled with the people

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who used to live in the villages on

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which sedarat is now built this didn't

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start on the 27th of December it didn't

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even start with respect to the uh

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honorable lady from Milton Kings who

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made a great speech in 1967 when cido

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and other places were clear

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this started in this building when

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Arthur balur on behalf of one people

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promised a second people the land which

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belonged to a third people we are the

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authors of this tragedy everything that

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has flown has flown as a result of that

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declaration and for that reason if no

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other the British foreign office needs

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to get its finger out and stand up and

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be counted alongside the British people

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demonstrating on the street of London

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Birmingham Manchester leads Edinburgh

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Glasgow and elsewhere let's see some

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urgency from the minister action speaks

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louder than words and from this

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government so far we've had no action at

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all