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considering the political shifts

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happening across Europe I wanted to get

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the perspective of someone who's stuck

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his neck out for years to change the

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conversation in the UK in a country Rife

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with austerity and destructive

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neoliberalism Parliament member George

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Galloway's respect party is the

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antithesis to the ruling class well

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earlier I was joined by Galloway from

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London and I first asked him why he

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thinks Greece has such differentiation

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in recent party victories from the far

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right Golden Dawn to the farle Sera

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well Golden Dawn are the third party in

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Greece now and that's pretty alarming

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they're an openly fascistic uh formation

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uh calling themselves patriotic but

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wearing German swastika type arm bands

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uh when they're out on the March their

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hatred of immigrants is of a pieace with

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other right-wing parties in Europe and

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indeed in the United Kingdom uh but the

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good news is in parliamentary terms

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they'll be completely isolated now it

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wasn't just that sza won half the seats

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in the parliament the Greek Communist

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Party won 15 seats poos the river party

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which is a kind of Center left uh party

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won 17 seats pasok the old Center left

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party being smashed with less than 5% of

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the vote so the Golden Dawn are quite

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isolated and unless there's actual

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breakdown in Greek civil and economic uh

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life uh I think we'll not be hearing

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that much more of them at least for the

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foreseeable future uh I'd take issue if

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I may with your characterization of sza

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as far left uh I I don't think that

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that's true though many of them come

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from a farle even ultr left background

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uh but I'm not sure uh just what they're

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made of once they're staring down the

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battle of the European Union the

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European Central Bank and the pressure

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from the other European governments I

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hope they make a stand because that's

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what their voters wanted but I've seen

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these kind of formations come and go mhm

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yeah time will tell it's going to be

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really fascinating Evolution uh there on

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the ground and of course as Greece uh

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moves slightly to the left I mean

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countries like Saudi Arabia remain

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exactly the same in fact three people

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have already been beheaded under the new

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king uh yet the Pentagon honoring the

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late King abdullah's like beautiful

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Legacy with an sa contest I mean now

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that America's foreign oil dependence is

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finally waning why do you think this

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Alliance is still stronger than ever it

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is extraordinary and humiliating how all

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these world leaders beat a path to a

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beheading butchering

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barbaric uh

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kleptocratic dictatorship in Saudi

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Arabia uh they couldn't uh get on their

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knees quick enough they couldn't kiss

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the nose of the the new king uh who has

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a very long and Market history as a

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funer of al-Qaeda as one of the first

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funders of what became Isis it is

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extraordinary that the United States

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broke off uh its uh visit the you

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leadership of the US broke off its visit

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to an important Ally and huge country

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India in order to pay homage at the

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court uh of the dictator in Riyad uh it

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is inexplicable except in this regard

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that the United States United Kingdom

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and others are in receipt of so many

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billions maybe more than billions of

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dollars in one way or another from this

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dictatorship that it's simply a kind of

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business lunch uh and there's no such

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thing as a free

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lunch and of course as you're mentioning

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I mean Saudi Arabia has been one of the

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biggest financiers of terrorism funing

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Sunni extremism Isis Al Qaeda getting

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sued by the 9911 victims families I mean

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the US is sending more money of course

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now to train rebels in Syria allegedly

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to fight Isis I know that we've talked

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about this so many times trying to wrap

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our minds around it George I mean FSA

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campaign is actually driving Rebels to

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join Isis what is the end game here oh I

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don't think they have an end game uh you

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shouldn't make the mistake of thinking

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our leaders are James Bonds they're more

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Austin Powers they have no idea of how

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to get out of the treadmill that they

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are on uh and they're def they're

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they're helping Einstein's definition of

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Madness uh come true which is of course

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uh to do the same thing uh over and over

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again and expect a different result is

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the definition of Madness and they're

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reinforcing failure they have already

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seen uh hundreds of millions of taxpayer

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dollars uh go to the so-called moderate

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Syrian opposition only promptly to be

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stolen by what became Isis what became

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Al-Qaeda and yet they're now promising

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to do it all again and the result the

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grizzly result of beheadings and hostage

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taking crucifixion

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uh amputations people being pushed off

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roofs by the very people who attacked

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your country on 911 and they're doing it

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all on US taxpayer dollars and uh not a

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few British taxpayer pounds I mean you

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you would laugh if you didn't cry

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because it has its comic uh side the the

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the the leaders that we have have just

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no idea what to do so they go on doing

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what they did already and the Saudi king

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whose nose they were kissing uh in the

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desert uh over the last couple of days

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was the Saudi official whose job was to

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build up Al-Qaeda which spawned Isis and

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so on and now we're expected to believe

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that they're serious uh about fighting

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them I made this point to you before uh

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if you compare the L of bombardment of

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former

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Yugoslavia with the level of bombardment

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of Isis they are of a different order of

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magnitude altogether so it's a somewhat

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desilter fight and that presumably is

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because they're not quite sure what to

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do not quite sure what they will do with

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the result I wanted to get your opinion

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on this because obviously Iraq has asked

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the US to be essentially its Air Force

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why isn't Assad more outraged that

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America's Coalition is bombing his

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country without approval considering how

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before the campaign even started he said

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unauthorized strikes would be seen as an

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act of War I mean is he just letting

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them kind of Splinter the opposition

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here presumably uh he is viewing with

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favor the concentration of support

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behind Isis Al-Qaeda has effectively now

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fallen in behind Isis and dozens and

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bear in mind there's more than a

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thousand of these fighting organ

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organizations a bewildering alphabet

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soup of extremism uh they're all falling

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in behind Isis and presumably Assad is

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betting on if it comes to the regime

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versus Isis there won't be that many

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takers in the world for an Isis Victory

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Marching In to uh to uh take over

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Damascus uh in a country next door to

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Israel presumably they think that even

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John McCain would bulk at that one

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although I'm not so sure when it comes

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to John McCain and of course another

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country that has been bombing Syria is

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Israel uh last week it carried out

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strikes in the occupied Goan Heights

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territories that killed six Hezbollah

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Fighters one Iranian General uh and

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Syria Lebanon and Israel have been

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returning fire ever since George how

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tense is this border and do you think

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there's another possibility of Another

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fullscale War like the one we saw on

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2006 well I I would normally be going to

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Beirut this weekend uh which I uh

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normally do uh but the television show

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that I do has been moved to London uh

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which is some kind of indication uh that

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allout war on the Lebanon Israel front

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uh is a real possibility maybe even a

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probability there is fighting going on

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now and Israeli General according to the

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Israeli media has been killed uh in the

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fighting today uh and of course when

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Israel bombed uh such high value targets

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in ketra in Syria uh just a week or two

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ago they must have known that the

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resistance in Lebanon would have no

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alternative but to respond and respond

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they have and whatever the Israeli

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response is will have to be responded to

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uh in turn so we very well could be back

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to 2006 allout War over the Lebanon

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Israel Frontier but the difference this

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time is that the resistance in Lebanon

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is far better armed with far more wide

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ranging uh missiles uh with which to

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Target each and every place inside

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Israel so it's going to be a very very

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serious War right if indeed it uh breaks

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out and uh this Blood letting of one

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atrocity chasing another atrocity is

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going to drag us all to hell you know in

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the wake of the Charlie ABDO Massacre

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Netanyahu also took that opportunity to

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exploit the tragedy for his own gain not

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only by telling all the Jews in France

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to come and live in Israel but also by

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lumping the attackers to every group

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that opposes the country he said today

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we bow our heads in memory of the

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victims in Paris however as

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representatives of an ancient and proud

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people We Stand Tall against evil

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because we can overcome it this form of

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Islam Islam has many names Isis Hamas

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Hezbollah but they're all branches from

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the same poison tree George what's your

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charlatan uh they are hypocrites

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charlatans these people in the front

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line of that March are responsible for

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the killing torturing maming jailing

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censoring Banning of more journalist

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than you could possibly count uh

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Netanyahu himself murdered 17

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journalists in Gaza just last summer the

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Egyptian regime that was at the front of

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the March has just jailed International

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journalists for 10 years for doing their

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job as reporters uh they are utter

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charlatans and Netanyahu waving to the

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crowd seeking to exploit the situation

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is merely the one of the more grotesque

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of the uh of the charlatans who were

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there uh but I'll give you a laugh I'm

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appearing next Thursday on BBC

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television's Question Time Flagship

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program uh in an area golders Green in

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London where quite a number of Jewish

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people live and all the Zionist

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organizations in Britain are campaigning

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to have the BBC ban me from the show so

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free speech when it comes to Charlie

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hebo but no free speech for an elected

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British Member of Parliament who sat in

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the House of Commons for almost 30 years

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you couldn't make it up thank you so

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much I always love having you on to just

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cut right through the heart of all this

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BS thank you so much George Galloway

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respect party member keep up the great

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work