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George Galloway British MP is with us

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now on the line from London Mr Galloway

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I believe you were one of the MPS who

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raised that issue of Israel's weapons

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and the concerns about them what kind of

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response uh did you and those who were

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making similar calls

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get well as always there's a double

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standard employed the whole regime of

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sanctions which has caused so much pain

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in Iran was imposed because of the fear

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that Iran might one day make a nuclear

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weapon while Israel has as you just said

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hundreds of nuclear weapons not only is

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it not

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sanctioned it is endlessly rewarded with

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more and more money and more diplomatic

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and political support so although the

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British government has on its attitude

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to the Islamic Republic

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we are still some way off from forcing

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the British government to move on its

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relationship

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State well a lot of people were

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suggesting Mr Galloway that this nuclear

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deal now between Iran and the six Powers

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is going to bring Israel's nuclear

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weapons program to the four now and uh

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make it more you know uh visible that it

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is the party that hasn't signed the MPT

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it's the only entity uh with nuclear

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weapons in the Middle East do you think

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these issues are going to come up now

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with concerns about Iran's uh nuclear

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program being

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elid I do think so uh I mean some of us

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have been making this very point for

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more than 30 years since M vanunu told

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us about Israel's nuclear weapons he

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having worked in the nuclear weapons

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plant at the Mona in the ne in occupied

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Palestine but you're right now that

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there's been all this H Baloo about Iran

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and nuclear questions it uh it unveils

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all over again the grotesque truth that

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the country which talks most about

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Iran's nuclear question is the country

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which is illegally holding hundreds of

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nuclear weapons which have never been

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inspected which are subject to no Tre

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and Israel refuses even to confirm that

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which we all know to be true that it is

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a nuclear weapons power so the demand

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will grow for a nuclear weapons free

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Middle East and that requires the

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destruction of Israel's nuclear weapons

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Armory and how big of a threat do you

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see Israel's nuclear weapons and its

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nuclear weapons program because some

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people who are supporting Israel's

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position as are saying that Israel

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shouldn't be seen as a nuclear threat in

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the region and it hasn't threatened

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anyone with the use of nuclear

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weapons well it hasn't threatened anyone

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with the use of nuclear weapons because

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it lies about the fact that it has them

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but its military power is underpinned by

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this nuclear weapons uh status however

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must tell you that nuclear weapons are

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useless against uh a people who refus to

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be intimidated by them if the Iranian

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people had been frightened or

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intimidated by Israel's nuclear weapons

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they would have surrendered all their

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rights but they have refused to

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surrender their rights because they are

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not afraid of Israel however many

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nuclear weapons she has so nuclear

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weapons of the the the nearest thing to

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a complete waste of money that it's

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possible to imagine because you can

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never use them if Israel were to use

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them for example against an Arab country

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or against Iran God forbid of course the

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wind would blow and people in all the

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surrounding countries would be affected

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for centuries to come so you can't use

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the

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weapons and all they are is an

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intimidatory and bullying threat but the

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people like the Palestinians and the

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Iranians for that matter refuse to be

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intimidated refuse to be bullied well

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the weapons are next to

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useless thank you very much George

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Galloway British MP with us there on the

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line from London