Galloway on west-muslim ties
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Galloway on west-muslim ties
Israel Poisons West-Muslim Ties: Galloway
IslamOnline.net & News Agencies
"The poison which circulates as a result of this unresolved conflict is poisoning our own lives in the West," Galloway said.
DAMASCUS — The Israeli occupation of the Arab lands has poisoned relations between the Muslim world and the West and has fuelled extremism around the world, said British anti-war lawmaker George Galloway on Thursday, August 31.
"The poison which circulates as a result of this unresolved conflict is poisoning our own lives in the West and making our people more endangered," Reuters quoted Galloway as telling a news conference at the end of a visit to Lebanon and Syria.
"Every time we see a martyrdom video from a young Muslim who was ready to swap his life for many of ours it is Palestine at the heart of this man's motivation," he said.
Israel captured swatches of Arab lands in Egypt, Jordan, Syria and the Palestinian territories during the 1967 War.
Israel also invaded Lebanon in 1982 but was forced by the Lebanese resistance group Hizbullah to withdraw in 2000.
Israel also withdrew from the Egyptian and Jordanian lands under peace agreements with the two countries. But it still refuses to end its occupation of Syria's strategic Golan Heights and the Palestinian territories.
Rather, Israel stepped up its bloody offensives against the Palestinians, killing up to 200 Palestinians, mostly civilians, in a wide-scale onslaught in Gaza on the pretext of seeking the release of a soldier taken prisoner by Palestinian groups.
Galloway urged Western countries to pressure Israel to end its 39-year occupation of Arab lands.
"It is now the duty of the backers of Israel to impress upon the Israeli leadership... a comprehensive peace."
A critic of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Galloway was expelled from Blair's ruling Labour Party for his outspoken opposition to the Iraq war.
Subservient Blair
The lawmaker also called for Britain to distance itself from US policy in the Middle East.
Former US president Jimmy Carter opened his salvos at Blair on August 27, for being "so compliant and subservient" to US President George W. Bush.
Blair was also mocked by British media as a US poodle after an off-the-cuff chat with Bush over a G8 lunch was accidentally broadcast.
The British media pored over the text of the conversation, saying it cast Blair in a subservient role and showed the unequal nature of Britain's much-vaunted "special relationship" with the US.
More recently, many Labour backbench MPs were deeply unhappy with Blair's refusal to break with Bush by calling for an immediate ceasefire when the Israeli war on Lebanon was at its height.
Galloway said that Blair's stance on the Israeli offensive in Lebanon has put more pressures on the prime minister to relinquish his job.
Blair has faced mounting domestic pressure to set a date to step down, but he has yet resisted the pressures.
Galloway also said that a post-Blair foreign policy should re-engage Syria, which he described as "moderate, progressive, secular, nationalist" and not a US "slave."
IslamOnline.net & News Agencies
"The poison which circulates as a result of this unresolved conflict is poisoning our own lives in the West," Galloway said.
DAMASCUS — The Israeli occupation of the Arab lands has poisoned relations between the Muslim world and the West and has fuelled extremism around the world, said British anti-war lawmaker George Galloway on Thursday, August 31.
"The poison which circulates as a result of this unresolved conflict is poisoning our own lives in the West and making our people more endangered," Reuters quoted Galloway as telling a news conference at the end of a visit to Lebanon and Syria.
"Every time we see a martyrdom video from a young Muslim who was ready to swap his life for many of ours it is Palestine at the heart of this man's motivation," he said.
Israel captured swatches of Arab lands in Egypt, Jordan, Syria and the Palestinian territories during the 1967 War.
Israel also invaded Lebanon in 1982 but was forced by the Lebanese resistance group Hizbullah to withdraw in 2000.
Israel also withdrew from the Egyptian and Jordanian lands under peace agreements with the two countries. But it still refuses to end its occupation of Syria's strategic Golan Heights and the Palestinian territories.
Rather, Israel stepped up its bloody offensives against the Palestinians, killing up to 200 Palestinians, mostly civilians, in a wide-scale onslaught in Gaza on the pretext of seeking the release of a soldier taken prisoner by Palestinian groups.
Galloway urged Western countries to pressure Israel to end its 39-year occupation of Arab lands.
"It is now the duty of the backers of Israel to impress upon the Israeli leadership... a comprehensive peace."
A critic of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Galloway was expelled from Blair's ruling Labour Party for his outspoken opposition to the Iraq war.
Subservient Blair
The lawmaker also called for Britain to distance itself from US policy in the Middle East.
Former US president Jimmy Carter opened his salvos at Blair on August 27, for being "so compliant and subservient" to US President George W. Bush.
Blair was also mocked by British media as a US poodle after an off-the-cuff chat with Bush over a G8 lunch was accidentally broadcast.
The British media pored over the text of the conversation, saying it cast Blair in a subservient role and showed the unequal nature of Britain's much-vaunted "special relationship" with the US.
More recently, many Labour backbench MPs were deeply unhappy with Blair's refusal to break with Bush by calling for an immediate ceasefire when the Israeli war on Lebanon was at its height.
Galloway said that Blair's stance on the Israeli offensive in Lebanon has put more pressures on the prime minister to relinquish his job.
Blair has faced mounting domestic pressure to set a date to step down, but he has yet resisted the pressures.
Galloway also said that a post-Blair foreign policy should re-engage Syria, which he described as "moderate, progressive, secular, nationalist" and not a US "slave."
