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Welcome to Kali Mahorra with me George
Galloway on Almadine television coming
to you from London but discussing the
Middle East in particular the role of
Israel and its greater Israel project in
the context of the collapsing security
situation across the Arab world. Now
this is kali mahurra free word. Everyone
of my distinguished studio audience will
have theirs. You will have yours. I must
have mine. I frankly think that the
predisposition of people in the Arab
world to blame others rather than
themselves for the multiple problems
that exist within the Arab area is a
copout. is a means of escaping their own
responsibility for it. And I've said
this on Al-Myadin many, many times. That
does not of course mean that Israel is
not involved in the multiple conflicts
in the Arab world. In fact, Israel is
involved in every single one of them and
in most of them in collaboration with
Arab regimes. Arab regimes which have
not yet been subject to any serious
threat of overthrow by their own
population and indeed Arab regimes that
do contrary to what many of us would
like to think enjoy largely popular
support within their own countries.
Certainly, there is no public rejection
in Saudi Arabia of Saudi Arabia's
increasingly
ugly belly dance with Israel. There are,
of course, many in Saudi Arabia that
oppose that policy, but not nearly
enough. Neither does this mean that
Israel does not stand to gain indeed
already has gained from the
bulcanization the
atomization of the Arab world. it stands
to gain has gained very much indeed not
just on the geopolitical level uh but
even on the financial level the
exploitation of Syria's resources in the
Golan Heights for example but
geopolitically Israel gains a very great
deal from the idea that 23 Arab
countries was not enough we needed more
far more and we needed not countries but
small Emirates, preferably Emirates
based on confession, based on
sectarianism, based on tribalism, based
on city states like Libya where once we
had one Libya, dysfunctional, very badly
governed. Now we have, I've lost count
of the number of Libyas, all based on
city states and on local popular
militia.
Equally, Israel gains has gained from
the increased
fanaticization,
Islamization in the Arab world. The idea
that they can be a state of the Jews as
they falsely claim is mirrored. If you
can have a state of the Christians in
other parts of the Arab world, a state
of the Shiites, a state of the Sunnis, a
state of this tribe or that uh uh
faction or uh confession, they gain a
very great deal from that because it
vindicates, validates or would appear to
their determination to splinter,
atomize, bulcanize the Arab world. So
far, many of my audience will be with
me, but maybe not this far because, as I
said in a celebrated exchange on this
program, which now has more than 25
million views on YouTube. None, none,
none of this would be possible if the
Arabs united and stood up against it. If
the Arabs could find within themselves
the ability to rise above tribe,
confession, sect, religion, and see
themselves as one people, at least set
themselves on the road in the direction
of being one people. Then they would be
unstoppable. Then they would be a
superpower that nobody in the world
could ever ignore.
That's not what they are now. As
everyone knows, Israel's
ideological basis has always been
greater
Israel. The very lines on its flag are
supposed to
delineate the uh Nile to the Euphrates
concept of a greater Israel. That does
not mean that Israel intends to govern
from the Nile to the
Euphrates. But why would they need to?
Why would they need need to if they had
governments that were acting in a way
that served their interests and the
interests of the imperial masters who
brought Israel into being in the first
place. The debate is on. As I said, I
have an audience of experts, unusually
expert, even on the high standards of
this program. But every person here has
the right to their free word.