George Galloway Quotes
We reject this illegal, barbarous, savage state that calls itself Israel. And you have to do the same.
Galloway, George. Speech at anti-war rally. London, 2009.
At that time Jews in Palestine were in the minority. The issue of how to obtain the land was hotly debated amongst Jewish groups. Jabotinsky was at one extreme—colonize and take the land just as the Arabs had done to the Jews when there was a Jewish majority. His view did not however prevail. The policy was to buy the land from individual Arabs and Jewish land up to 1948 was obtained that way. In that year the UN partitioned Palestine and 11 Arab armies attacked the new state of Israel and asked the Arab civilians to leave the area so that the Army could cleanse it of Jews. Many did not, and they or their descendants are still on their land or have sold it. The Arabs who left, were suspected of being possible collaborators or terrorists, and they have never been paid for their land or allowed to return. Compensation is still in dispute. At the same time Jews driven out of Arab countries by law and the military have never been compensated or given any right of return either.
At the time YaAlon was Rabin’s Chief of Intelligence.
George Galloway is a British politician, broadcaster and writer. He currently presents The Mother of All Talk Shows on Radio Sputnik and Sputnik on RT UK. Between 1987 and 2015, except for a period between 2010 and 2012, he was a Member of Parliament (MP) for four constituencies, first for the Labour Party and later the Respect Party, the latter of which he founded in 2004 and led until its dissolution in 2016. He is currently the leader of the Workers Party of Britain, which he founded in 2019 in response to the defeat of Jeremy Corbyn in the 2019 General Election, and the Lead Spokesman for All for Unity, a Scottish-based party he founded to support British unionism in the face of rising support for Scottish independence and the Scottish National Party (SNP).
