1 00:00:07,830 --> 00:00:13,799 [Music] 2 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:16,080 George Let's Start by talking about the 3 00:00:13,799 --> 00:00:18,039 most recent news out of Iraq the US 4 00:00:16,080 --> 00:00:20,279 military just conducted an air strike 5 00:00:18,039 --> 00:00:22,680 against artillery held by ISIS outside 6 00:00:20,279 --> 00:00:24,640 the Kurdish city of bbal do you worry 7 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:27,519 that this could lead to full-blown US 8 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:30,840 military involvement again Beyond these 9 00:00:27,519 --> 00:00:32,599 targeted strikes I would think so uh but 10 00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:36,320 of course there are many mysteries in 11 00:00:32,599 --> 00:00:39,520 this story wrapped up in many enigmas uh 12 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:41,360 the Isis which is so extreme it was 13 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:44,760 expelled by 14 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:47,879 Al-Qaeda uh who don't need reminding uh 15 00:00:44,760 --> 00:00:52,440 the United States viewers uh committed 16 00:00:47,879 --> 00:00:55,879 mass murder in New York uh on 911 uh and 17 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:58,399 yet they have been allowed to take over 18 00:00:55,879 --> 00:01:01,079 almost all of Iraq certainly more than 19 00:00:58,399 --> 00:01:03,640 50% of it including some of the great 20 00:01:01,079 --> 00:01:06,360 cities uh of Iraq and they're within 21 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:08,960 shooting distance of the capital itself 22 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:12,240 without these allies who spent a 23 00:01:08,960 --> 00:01:14,799 trillion dollars and thousands of uh the 24 00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:17,920 lives of the soldiers of the 25 00:01:14,799 --> 00:01:20,560 anglo-american invasion Force as well as 26 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:24,040 of course a million Iraqi lives in order 27 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:26,680 to bring about democracy in Iraq and yet 28 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:29,040 they have sat on their hands whilst 29 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:32,720 Al-Qaeda took over more than half of the 30 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:34,960 country including uh great dams and uh 31 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:37,399 other oil fields and other things 32 00:01:34,960 --> 00:01:39,040 including Banks which they've looted and 33 00:01:37,399 --> 00:01:42,119 made off with hundreds of millions of 34 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:45,439 dollars so it's a mystery why it's taken 35 00:01:42,119 --> 00:01:47,719 so long for President Obama to organize 36 00:01:45,439 --> 00:01:51,520 these air strikes a mystery that makes 37 00:01:47,719 --> 00:01:54,280 many people in the Arab world suspicious 38 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:57,600 about who Isis really are who they're 39 00:01:54,280 --> 00:02:00,119 really working for but secondly of 40 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:03,439 course as I think I inferred from your 41 00:02:00,119 --> 00:02:06,640 question it will not work uh targeted 42 00:02:03,439 --> 00:02:08,840 air strikes every now and again against 43 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:12,120 a military force that's sweeping all 44 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:15,760 before it and has the tacit support at 45 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:19,200 least of the country's Sunni Muslim 46 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:22,400 minority and the active support of the 47 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:24,879 Sunni Muslim Hinterland in Saudi Arabia 48 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:27,920 and elsewhere is not going to work and 49 00:02:24,879 --> 00:02:30,599 so the logic ineluctably is that the 50 00:02:27,920 --> 00:02:33,640 United States and Britain will be drawn 51 00:02:30,599 --> 00:02:36,879 back into Iraq in a very very serious 52 00:02:33,640 --> 00:02:39,599 way and that won't work either uh so we 53 00:02:36,879 --> 00:02:42,360 really are in a mess uh and uh as half 54 00:02:39,599 --> 00:02:45,040 an Irishman myself I'm entitled to say 55 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:47,879 as the apocryphal Irishman said when 56 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:50,080 asked the way to such and such a place 57 00:02:47,879 --> 00:02:53,360 well I wouldn't have started from here 58 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:55,640 the man replied it is a tragedy it's a 59 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:57,280 complete uh mess George you're right 60 00:02:55,640 --> 00:02:59,239 about that and Isis didn't form in a 61 00:02:57,280 --> 00:03:00,280 vacuum how much of what's currently 62 00:02:59,239 --> 00:03:02,720 happening on the ground ground as a 63 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:04,920 direct result of us and UK foreign 64 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:07,879 policy in Iraq and 65 00:03:04,920 --> 00:03:10,480 Syria oh all of it Tony Blair and George 66 00:03:07,879 --> 00:03:14,200 Bush are entirely responsible for this 67 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:17,720 mess Iraq was one country uh 68 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:20,840 sectarianism and extremism was 69 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:23,519 mercilessly crushed there were no armed 70 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:25,440 militias roaming the country and there 71 00:03:23,519 --> 00:03:28,760 were a million more Iraqis than there 72 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:31,000 are today because a million of them died 73 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:35,040 almost a million of them died prior to 74 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:38,680 that in the US UK sanctions regime now 75 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:41,280 Iraq is atomized it's not one country 76 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:43,720 it's not even three countries it's maybe 77 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:47,040 30 countries every one of them 78 00:03:43,720 --> 00:03:49,480 controlled by an armed militia usually 79 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:52,400 with a fundamentalist extremist 80 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:54,879 religious stripe and uh they're 81 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:56,840 murdering each other in very large 82 00:03:54,879 --> 00:03:58,959 numbers and yesterday we just learned 83 00:03:56,840 --> 00:04:00,400 that Isis forces took control of Iraq's 84 00:03:58,959 --> 00:04:02,480 largest Dan 85 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:04,159 and musul obviously the possibility that 86 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:07,000 Isis will use this Dam as a weapon to 87 00:04:04,159 --> 00:04:09,480 flood cities is very real is there 88 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:12,280 realistically a military solution at all 89 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:14,959 to stop this from 90 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:18,199 happening well uh if I was forced to 91 00:04:14,959 --> 00:04:20,919 take the keys of this uh runaway vehicle 92 00:04:18,199 --> 00:04:24,400 uh I would I would do this I would try 93 00:04:20,919 --> 00:04:28,280 to involve the neighbors uh all of whom 94 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:31,039 have an interest in an Al-Qaeda offshoot 95 00:04:28,280 --> 00:04:33,880 not taking over one of the world's major 96 00:04:31,039 --> 00:04:36,440 oil producers a multiethnic 97 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:41,000 multicultural multi-religious 98 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:44,440 State uh and I would uh try somehow to 99 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:47,160 infuse people especially in the army 100 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:49,520 with the idea that there is any longer 101 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:52,160 something called Iraq that's worth 102 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:56,240 fighting for and worth losing your life 103 00:04:52,160 --> 00:05:00,280 for that means bringing in Iran it means 104 00:04:56,240 --> 00:05:02,840 also uh Iran working with Saudi Arabia 105 00:05:00,280 --> 00:05:06,160 the Saudi regime dictatorship is of 106 00:05:02,840 --> 00:05:09,360 course ultimately mortally threatened by 107 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:13,120 this Isis formation and it means 108 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:15,520 reaching out to the Iraqi Sunni Muslims 109 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:18,840 who have felt for a long time more than 110 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:21,440 a decade that the country is not run 111 00:05:18,840 --> 00:05:24,319 with their interests in mind and that 112 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:27,440 the government of al-maliki is an 113 00:05:24,319 --> 00:05:30,319 entirely sectarian one not to mention a 114 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:33,160 very uh rampantly corrupt one 115 00:05:30,319 --> 00:05:36,360 so I'd make political changes I would 116 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:38,880 reach out to all the communities I would 117 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:42,319 release political prisoners many of whom 118 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:47,199 have been held for now 11 going on for 119 00:05:42,319 --> 00:05:50,720 12 years uh for no good reason I would 120 00:05:47,199 --> 00:05:53,000 reli amize the Arab nationalist forces 121 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:55,840 within Iraq and I'd try to make an 122 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:59,000 alliance with them I'd say do you really 123 00:05:55,840 --> 00:06:01,479 want to be run by a caliphate uh that 124 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:04,440 was expelled hel from Al-Qaeda because 125 00:06:01,479 --> 00:06:06,759 it was too extreme because it was too 126 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:09,440 sectarian I don't think in the end if 127 00:06:06,759 --> 00:06:11,800 you did that you would have that much 128 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:14,880 difficulty in marginalizing these people 129 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:16,720 but the fundamental flaw in our policy 130 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:19,680 is that when these people cross over 131 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:21,680 into Syria as they do crisscrossing 132 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:24,560 between the two countries they become 133 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:27,039 our allies and we're bombing them now in 134 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:29,599 Iraq but we're giving them bombs when 135 00:06:27,039 --> 00:06:34,599 they're operating in Syria and they have 136 00:06:29,599 --> 00:06:38,560 have torn Syria apart and their vile uh 137 00:06:34,599 --> 00:06:41,479 Creed of sectarian hatred has of course 138 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:43,960 uh ripped this the fabric of Syrian 139 00:06:41,479 --> 00:06:46,400 Society possibly Beyond 140 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:47,759 repair right and and this context of 141 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:49,240 course is missing from all the 142 00:06:47,759 --> 00:06:51,000 mainstream media analysis of the 143 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:53,400 situation no one's talking about how 144 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:55,879 Isis was emboldened and strengthened in 145 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:57,720 this vacuum um crossing over into Syria 146 00:06:55,879 --> 00:07:00,319 of course I'm being called an Isis 147 00:06:57,720 --> 00:07:03,080 apologist and a homos apologist because 148 00:07:00,319 --> 00:07:04,639 I don't support bombing campaigns for 149 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:07,120 the third time in the country Georg 150 00:07:04,639 --> 00:07:09,319 let's move on to an extremely turbulent 151 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:10,919 area of the world Gaza of course today 152 00:07:09,319 --> 00:07:13,520 the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas 153 00:07:10,919 --> 00:07:15,759 was broken Israel's resumed strikes in 154 00:07:13,520 --> 00:07:17,680 response to Hamas Rockets what's your 155 00:07:15,759 --> 00:07:19,520 response to those who say hamas's 156 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:22,960 decision to break the ceasefire shows 157 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:22,960 they're not willing to 158 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:28,800 negotiate well the ceasefire had 159 00:07:25,599 --> 00:07:31,879 finished it elapsed after 72 hours it 160 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:34,599 was not a ceas far but a pause a pause 161 00:07:31,879 --> 00:07:37,280 in the large scale Massacre of 162 00:07:34,599 --> 00:07:39,360 Palestinians trapped in the Gaza 163 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:42,240 concentration camp the biggest 164 00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:44,080 concentration camp in the world in which 165 00:07:42,240 --> 00:07:47,319 almost 2 million people are trapped 166 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:50,960 behind the barbwire in an area 25 mil 167 00:07:47,319 --> 00:07:55,199 long and 4.5 mil wide nowhere run uh 168 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:58,280 nowhere to hide and so the uh context as 169 00:07:55,199 --> 00:08:00,800 you mentioned the word earlier is this 170 00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:03,479 that Israel has has stolen the 171 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:06,120 Palestinians land wiped their country 172 00:08:03,479 --> 00:08:09,240 off the map scattered their people to 173 00:08:06,120 --> 00:08:13,120 the four corners of the earth besieges 174 00:08:09,240 --> 00:08:17,400 Gaza controlling even the calorie intake 175 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:21,599 of uh every gazan 80% of whom are rying 176 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:24,520 on International uh uh food Aid 80% of 177 00:08:21,599 --> 00:08:27,120 whom are unemployed and 80% of the 178 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:29,280 children in Gaza are malnourished 179 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:32,399 according to the United Nations they 180 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:35,880 have have occupied the West Bank covered 181 00:08:32,399 --> 00:08:38,240 it paved it with hundreds of illegal 182 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:40,800 settlements built military roads 183 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:43,719 crisscrossing the territory an aparte 184 00:08:40,800 --> 00:08:46,800 wall checkpoints by the hundred and they 185 00:08:43,719 --> 00:08:49,000 have illegally annexed uh East Jerusalem 186 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:52,120 and are in the process of ethnically 187 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:54,760 cleansing the Arab Muslim and Christian 188 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:56,640 uh population from Jerusalem so if 189 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:58,800 you're not going to have resistance to 190 00:08:56,640 --> 00:09:00,040 that you're not going to have resistance 191 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:03,399 to anything 192 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:05,880 the word Hamas is just a shorthand for 193 00:09:03,399 --> 00:09:08,240 the Palestinian resistants who actually 194 00:09:05,880 --> 00:09:11,560 are members of all kinds of political 195 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:14,399 and Military organizations but uh if you 196 00:09:11,560 --> 00:09:17,600 invade some's country if you occupy it 197 00:09:14,399 --> 00:09:20,600 if you fundamentally alter its character 198 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:23,519 and if after 67 years there is no 199 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:26,000 conceivable political or peaceful or 200 00:09:23,519 --> 00:09:28,279 diplomatic way out the people will rise 201 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:31,480 up and that's what the Palestinians are 202 00:09:28,279 --> 00:09:33,839 doing in the second World War The Heroes 203 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:36,920 of the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw the 204 00:09:33,839 --> 00:09:40,360 Warsaw Ghetto the people decided that 205 00:09:36,920 --> 00:09:42,920 they would not die one by one 10 by 10 206 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:45,839 on their knees waiting for their captors 207 00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:48,320 to murder them uh but would rise up and 208 00:09:45,839 --> 00:09:50,519 if necessary die on their feet and they 209 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:52,600 wrote their name in The Stars they are 210 00:09:50,519 --> 00:09:54,959 amongst the greatest heroes of the 211 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:58,079 second world war they broke out from 212 00:09:54,959 --> 00:10:01,000 their barbwire and they confronted uh 213 00:09:58,079 --> 00:10:04,000 the fascists who were uh killing them 214 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:05,560 one by one 10 by 10 and that's frankly 215 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:07,880 all that the Palestinians are trying to 216 00:10:05,560 --> 00:10:10,240 do what's amazing about that George is 217 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:11,880 the tunnels that existed back then as 218 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:14,079 well um and you can look back at the 219 00:10:11,880 --> 00:10:15,440 days of slavery here the tunnels here so 220 00:10:14,079 --> 00:10:16,760 it's amazing to just keep calling these 221 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:18,440 Terror tunnels Terror tunnels we're 222 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:19,600 going to go and destroy all these and 223 00:10:18,440 --> 00:10:22,079 and and of course journalist Chris 224 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:23,920 Hedges has cited this argument as well 225 00:10:22,079 --> 00:10:27,480 where he cites the article of 226 00:10:23,920 --> 00:10:30,160 self-defense under article 51 of the UN 227 00:10:27,480 --> 00:10:33,079 Charter um of a you know a helpless 228 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:35,680 civilian population has the right to 229 00:10:33,079 --> 00:10:39,279 protect itself to to resist against 230 00:10:35,680 --> 00:10:41,680 weapons of industrial Warfare um what is 231 00:10:39,279 --> 00:10:45,959 what is the solution here George two 232 00:10:41,680 --> 00:10:45,959 State solution one state solution 233 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:52,399 mhm well I I frankly I supported the oso 234 00:10:50,160 --> 00:10:55,200 agreement When It Was Written almost 20 235 00:10:52,399 --> 00:10:58,079 years ago but 20 years later not only is 236 00:10:55,200 --> 00:11:01,240 not 1 centimeter of Palestine free of 237 00:10:58,079 --> 00:11:05,160 Israeli occupation or Siege or 238 00:11:01,240 --> 00:11:08,120 annexation uh the West Bank demographic 239 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:10,440 and topographic alterations made by the 240 00:11:08,120 --> 00:11:12,800 illegal settlements and so on that I 241 00:11:10,440 --> 00:11:17,440 mentioned make any possibility of a 242 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:20,040 two-state solution uh oos and frankly uh 243 00:11:17,440 --> 00:11:23,079 to talk about a two-state solution now 244 00:11:20,040 --> 00:11:26,200 is to fly in the face of reality it's a 245 00:11:23,079 --> 00:11:28,800 tiny place it's smaller than one park in 246 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:32,360 South Africa a part out South Africa 247 00:11:28,800 --> 00:11:34,880 became one single Democratic State uh 248 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:37,279 from one end to the other in which black 249 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:39,720 people and white people lived as equal 250 00:11:37,279 --> 00:11:41,600 citizens under the law with one man one 251 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:44,200 woman one vote and that's the best 252 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:46,560 solution for the Israel Palestine 253 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:48,720 conflict too uh some people say that's 254 00:11:46,560 --> 00:11:50,880 never going to happen well the so-called 255 00:11:48,720 --> 00:11:54,040 two-state solution is never going to 256 00:11:50,880 --> 00:11:56,279 happen either and that's not a solution 257 00:11:54,040 --> 00:11:57,480 so why should people fight for it right 258 00:11:56,279 --> 00:11:59,000 I mean we should let the chips fall 259 00:11:57,480 --> 00:12:01,240 where they may uh of course things 260 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:03,920 aren't AR perfect still in South Africa 261 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:06,560 but ending the aparte state is the first 262 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:08,079 step George let's talk about sayida wari 263 00:12:06,560 --> 00:12:10,639 the former senior foreign office 264 00:12:08,079 --> 00:12:12,360 minister in the UK who publicly resigned 265 00:12:10,639 --> 00:12:14,760 over the government policy on Gaza she 266 00:12:12,360 --> 00:12:16,519 says it's morally indefensible where 267 00:12:14,760 --> 00:12:18,000 after four weeks of a conflict more than 268 00:12:16,519 --> 00:12:21,040 a quarter of the gazen population 269 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:23,560 displaced nearly 2,000 people killed 400 270 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:26,079 innocent children we still cannot find 271 00:12:23,560 --> 00:12:27,720 the words to say we condemn this and we 272 00:12:26,079 --> 00:12:29,760 feel this action has been 273 00:12:27,720 --> 00:12:31,800 disproportionate of course the US it's 274 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:34,480 the same thing George why is Israel 275 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:36,720 given so much impunity from the West 276 00:12:34,480 --> 00:12:40,320 time and 277 00:12:36,720 --> 00:12:45,880 again well in the US Senate as you will 278 00:12:40,320 --> 00:12:49,040 know they voted 97 to0 z uh to defend 279 00:12:45,880 --> 00:12:51,279 Israel's war to condemn the Palestinian 280 00:12:49,040 --> 00:12:54,399 resistance and to condemn the United 281 00:12:51,279 --> 00:12:56,959 Nations for having voted uh to 282 00:12:54,399 --> 00:12:59,800 investigate allegations of war crimes 283 00:12:56,959 --> 00:13:04,240 and crimes against humanity that's a 284 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:07,839 stark an example of uh the strangle hold 285 00:13:04,240 --> 00:13:11,320 which the Israel Lobby has over American 286 00:13:07,839 --> 00:13:14,279 politics now I I very purposely say 287 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:17,360 Israel Lobby not Jewish Lobby because of 288 00:13:14,279 --> 00:13:19,920 course the vast majority of the Israel 289 00:13:17,360 --> 00:13:22,800 Lobby in the United States are fanatic 290 00:13:19,920 --> 00:13:25,360 Christians not Jews many of them maybe 291 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:28,639 most of them don't even like Jews and 292 00:13:25,360 --> 00:13:31,199 many Jews are on our side religious Jews 293 00:13:28,639 --> 00:13:34,279 secular Progressive Jews are Marching 294 00:13:31,199 --> 00:13:36,600 with us so this is not a dichotomy uh 295 00:13:34,279 --> 00:13:39,880 about religion it's a dichotomy about 296 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:42,920 Justice and Injustice and uh the United 297 00:13:39,880 --> 00:13:46,240 States government and its uh Congress 298 00:13:42,920 --> 00:13:48,639 has nailed its colors on the side of 299 00:13:46,240 --> 00:13:51,720 Injustice and I'm here to tell you that 300 00:13:48,639 --> 00:13:54,480 that's just not in the United States own 301 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:58,320 National interest most people in the 302 00:13:54,480 --> 00:14:01,880 world regard Israel as a rogue terrorist 303 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:05,040 state they regard the crimes of Israel 304 00:14:01,880 --> 00:14:07,800 as being beyond the pale and they know 305 00:14:05,040 --> 00:14:10,519 that every crime is paid for and 306 00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:12,320 politically BST butress by the United 307 00:14:10,519 --> 00:14:14,480 States of America which provides the 308 00:14:12,320 --> 00:14:18,279 money the weapons the political and 309 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:21,440 diplomatic and even media support that's 310 00:14:18,279 --> 00:14:24,079 making billions of people in the world 311 00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:27,360 hate the United States even more than 312 00:14:24,079 --> 00:14:31,040 they perhaps already did that cannot be 313 00:14:27,360 --> 00:14:33,199 a US national interest so all I ask from 314 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:36,240 the United States government is that you 315 00:14:33,199 --> 00:14:39,120 somehow find the backbone to stand up 316 00:14:36,240 --> 00:14:41,560 for your own country's interest rather 317 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:44,440 than burning all of your remaining 318 00:14:41,560 --> 00:14:46,720 political capital in defense of the 319 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:49,040 indefensible absolutely and we just 320 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:51,639 heard that not only the financial 321 00:14:49,040 --> 00:14:55,560 support the surveillance support to 322 00:14:51,639 --> 00:14:57,720 track and Target Palestinians as well 323 00:14:55,560 --> 00:14:59,279 unbelievable George Let's wrap this up 324 00:14:57,720 --> 00:15:01,000 with an update on your documentary 325 00:14:59,279 --> 00:15:02,680 called the killing of Tony Blair what's 326 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:04,199 the craziest thing you've uncovered 327 00:15:02,680 --> 00:15:07,040 while filming and when should we expect 328 00:15:04,199 --> 00:15:07,040 the documentary to be 329 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:12,120 released uh the documentary will be 330 00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:14,320 premiered it's World premiere at the 331 00:15:12,120 --> 00:15:17,320 South by Southwest International Film 332 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:20,279 Festival in Austin Texas uh quite close 333 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:23,000 to Crawford Texas where Tony Blair and 334 00:15:20,279 --> 00:15:25,320 George W bush I'm not making this up got 335 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:28,160 down on their knees and prayed for the 336 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:31,680 success of their uh Adventure that they 337 00:15:28,160 --> 00:15:33,920 were about to launch imagine uh it's 338 00:15:31,680 --> 00:15:36,720 British premiere will be a week later at 339 00:15:33,920 --> 00:15:40,279 the Edinburgh Film Festival so March it 340 00:15:36,720 --> 00:15:44,079 will be out with all guns blazing uh we 341 00:15:40,279 --> 00:15:47,920 have discovered secrets about the 342 00:15:44,079 --> 00:15:52,440 financial treasure treasure chest the F 343 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:54,880 phenomenal fantastic $100 million Bounty 344 00:15:52,440 --> 00:15:57,839 100 million dollar that Tony Blair has 345 00:15:54,880 --> 00:16:01,399 amassed in the last seven years we have 346 00:15:57,839 --> 00:16:03,720 talked to people who are his victims by 347 00:16:01,399 --> 00:16:06,160 the end of our film by the time the 348 00:16:03,720 --> 00:16:08,560 titles come up and your name will be in 349 00:16:06,160 --> 00:16:11,279 those titles by the time those titles 350 00:16:08,560 --> 00:16:13,600 come up nobody will employ Tony Blair 351 00:16:11,279 --> 00:16:16,120 he'll be sacked as the so-called peace 352 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:18,120 Envoy in the Middle East and I hope 353 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:21,199 he'll be on his way to the he and to 354 00:16:18,120 --> 00:16:23,120 jail it's about time thank you so much 355 00:16:21,199 --> 00:16:25,240 George Galloway member of the respect 356 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:28,759 party in Parliament always appreciate 357 00:16:25,240 --> 00:16:28,759 your amazing insight 358 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:34,580 [Music]