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Friday, 23 May 2008

What is George Galloway suggesting here?

The Spectator reports that George Galloway included the following passage in an address that was shown on Al-Jazeera on 15 May. What is he suggesting the Palestinians do, is he suggesting an invasion of Israel?


"All my life I believed that Palestine could be liberated by the Kalashnikov and the armed struggle alone. This was a mistake. We need the Kalashnikov. We need the armed struggle. This is the hammer. But we need also an anvil. The hammer is necessary to defend yourself, to strike your enemy. You must never let it down, never let it fall from your hand. But it cannot make something alone. What is needed is an anvil, and that anvil has to be mass movements of the population, of the people. The most inspiring event, of the last – we can say – 40 years, since Karameh, was when the people of Gaza, with their bare hands, in their thousands tore down the walls of their prison, and poured out of the siege into Egypt."

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