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joining me now as a man not known for

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sitting on the fence he passionately

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opposed the invasion of Iraq and now he

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feels that hisbah is Justified in

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attacking Israel the respect MP for

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Bethel green is in our Central London

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Studio a very good evening a good

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morning rather to you Mr Galloway how do

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you justify your support for hisbah and

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its leader shik Hassan nzala a

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Preposterous way to introduce an item

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and what a Preposterous first question

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24 years ago on the day my daughter was

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born and just celebrated her 24th

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birthday I had to dash to the maternity

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hospital to see her given birth from a

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mass demonstration in London against the

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Israeli Invasion and occupation of

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Lebanon Israel has been invading and

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occupying Lebanon all of my 24-year-old

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daughter's life the hisbah are a part of

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the Lebanese National resistance who are

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trying to drive having successfully

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driven most Israelis from their land in

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2000 Israel from the rest of their land

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and to get back those thousands of

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Lebanese prisoners who were kidnapped by

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Israel under the terms of their illegal

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occupation of Lebanon it's Israel that's

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invading Lebanon it's Israel that's

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attacking Lebanon not Lebanon that's

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attacking Israel you've just been

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carrying a report of 10 Israeli soldiers

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on the border getting ready to invade

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Lebanon and you ask us to mourn that

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operation as if it were some kind of War

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crime Israel is invading Lebanon and has

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killed 30 times more Lebanese cili than

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have died in Israel so it's you who

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should be justifying the evident bias

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which is written on every line on your

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face and is in every Nuance of your

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voice and is loaded in every question

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that you ask

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right the uh you put your finger on the

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button though didn't you when you said

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that hisbah was set up back in the 1980s

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in order to remove every Israeli soldier

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from Lebanese soil as you said it

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achieved that in 2000 it this is a

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setback it didn't this is a key point

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that you're you're concealing from your

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viewers Israel was forced out of most of

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the south of Lebanon in 2000 it still

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occupies a part of Lebanon since

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2000s area is subject to latest draft

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resolution thousand of Lebanese

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prisoners have been kidnapped by

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Israel for Ministry spokesman who said

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that the three Lebanese who have been uh

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captured perhaps you'd like to use that

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word have been before not those these

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are not prisoners of law oh please have

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a slightly longer memory than 4 weeks

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I'm talking about the thousands of

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prisoners taken during the 18 years of

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Israeli occupation illegal occupation of

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South Lebanon these are the prisoners

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that have to be released in exchange for

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the Israeli soldiers that were captured

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at the beginning of this wave of the

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crisis can I ask you about a report

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that's in today's Sunday Telegraph which

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showed that Iran has given hisbah long

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range uh missiles capable of targeting

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any part of Israel uh Iran according to

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this Iranian MP who helped found hisbah

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has also said that he's Iran has given

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the organization organization author

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authorization rather to Target Tel Aviv

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can you blame Israel for wanting to

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destroy those missiles this is

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preposterous America has given Israel uh

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missiles that can Target not just every

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city in Lebanon but every city in the

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Arab and Muslim world including Iran why

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should America be allowed to give long

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range missiles to Israel including

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hundreds of nuclear missiles but Iran to

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a terrorist organization but they're not

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a terrorist organ ization only in the

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mind of rert Murdoch's sky and the times

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and the Sun and the News of the World

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terrorist prescribed terrorist

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organizations one man's terrorist is

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another man's Freedom Fighter we know

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that perfectly well in most people's

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eyes they are deemed to be they had a

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choice didn't they let's let's let's

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understand this they had a choice like

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the IRA no no

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nothing listen Anna I'm saying they had

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a choice to absorb the idea of politics

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they cabinet ministers Anna one man's

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terrorist is another man's Freedom

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Fighter you are totally wrong in saying

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that in most people's eyes Hezbollah are

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terrorists in most people's eyes Israel

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is a terrorist State it's the fact that

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you cannot comprehend that fact that

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leads to the bias which runs through all

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of your reporting and every question

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that you've asked me in this

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interview mhm can can I ask you one

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question I I was relating to the IRA and

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shin Fain they have decided to embrace

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politics hisbah had the chance to

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embrace politics they've already got two

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cabinet ministers they're well respected

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in the South politics they are what I'm

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say of the if you listen to me I'm

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saying they've got two cabinet ministers

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already they had a chance to do that why

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did they need to capture and kill

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Israeli soldiers on the border surely

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They Se sets back their to be a

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political force inside a democratic

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Lebanon look because Israel occupies

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their country and holds thousands of

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their compatriots as kidnapped hostages

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in their dungeons it's really very

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simple except if you think only in a

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clock that goes back four weeks if you

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know and you're old enough to know

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better that this origins of this

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conflict are not 4 weeks or 4 years or

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14 years but decades old you want people

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to think that the crisis started when

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the clock started [ __ ] on Sky News

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unfortunately the people in Lebanon I

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ask you one yeah I want to ask you one

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final question do you think that the the

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four weeks that we've seen as you

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mentioned the 26 days of this crisis has

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set back hezbollah's ambition Ambitions

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not not only are isra soldiers now over

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the Border let me finish let me finish

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would you mind let me finish please not

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only are Israeli soldiers over the

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Border in sizable numbers but also their

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claims to be a good political

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organization ation to help a democratic

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Lebanese government with the syrians

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who've also now left an independent

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state that has also come to blows as

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well what a silly question what a silly

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person you are hisbah is winning the war

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you can see on the other half of the

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screen hisbah is more popular my

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question hisbah is more popular today in

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Lebanon amongst Christians amongst

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sunnis among Shiites amongst all Arabs

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amongst all Muslims than it has ever

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been it's Israel who lost the war and

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Bush and Blair for politically

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organizing the war who've lost

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politically this is a defeat for Bush

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and Blair and Israel everybody but you

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can see it let me separate out that

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question then is it a setback given that

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hisbah was set up in order to get

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Israeli soldiers off Lebanese soil that

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there are now more Israeli soldiers on

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Lebanese soil than there were 26 days

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ago uh uh well they seem to be getting a

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the screen that I'm watching maybe you

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can't see it but I'm watching them

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getting a bloody good hiding in the war

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so if that's a success I'm not sure what

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a failure would look like the reality is

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that this conflict will go on the United

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Nations resolution solves nothing gives

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Lebanon nothing gives the prisoners in

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Israeli dungeons nothing and as an clued

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my AR while colleague was just saying

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Israel has just kidnapped even more

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Palestinian politicians cabinet

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ministers members of parliament and

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thousands of others held in Israeli

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Dungeons and this war will continue

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until the overall settlement is reached

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that settlement must mean Israeli

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withdrawal from all occupied territory

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that it currently holds since the War in

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1967 the release of all political

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prisoners and a state for the

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Palestinians with East Jerusalem as its

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capital no justice no peace you're not

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going out of business as a news caster

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in Jerusalem anytime soon believe me

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well as usual you have prompted a huge

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email response both for and against you

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Mr Galloway so we'll leave it there I

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have to say that some people might find

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it offensive when more families are

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mourning their dead to you to hear you

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say that it was D you don't give a damn

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you don't even know about the

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Palestinian families you don't even know

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that they exist tell me the name of one

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member of the seven members of the same

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family slaughtered on the beach in Gaza

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by an Israeli warship you don't even

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know their name but you know the name of

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every Israeli soldier who's been taken

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prisoner in this conflict because you

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believe whether you know it or not the

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Israeli blood is more valuable than the

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blood of Lebanese or Palestinians that's

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the truth and the Discerning of your

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viewers already know

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