Here’s a remarkable development. A British member of Parliament – well, all right, it was George Galloway but he is still an MP – has been visiting Damascus. According to this account, after extolling President Assad and declaring that Syria would not betray the ‘Palestinian’ resistance or Hezbullah, the Lebanese ‘resistance’ (otherwise known to all civilised people as terrorists), Galloway said:

What your lives would be if from the Atlantic to the Gulf we had one Arab union -- all this land, 300 million people, all this oil and gas and water, occupied by a people who speak the same language, follow the same religions, listen to the same Umm Kulthum. The Arabs would be a superpower in the world if they had this unity, instead of the shameful situation in which the Arabs find themselves today. Hundreds of thousands are ready to fight them (the Americans) in the Middle East, and in Latin America there is revolution everywhere. Fidel Castro is feeling young again. Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile are all electing left-wing governments which are challenging American domination. And in Venezuela, the hero Hugo Chavez has stood against them over and over and over again. So I say to you, citizens of the last Arab country, this is a time for courage, for unity, for wisdom, for determination, to face these enemies with the dignity your president has shown, and I believe, God willing, we will prevail and triumph, wa-salamu aleikum (peace be upon you all).

The ‘we’ here appears to be the Arab nation (of which Galloway now appears to be a member). The ‘enemies’ to be prevailed and triumphed over appear to be the Americans – and therefore, by extension, the British. Galloway therefore appears to be inciting war by the Arabs against us. Why is this man still a member of Parliament?

Now here’s an even more interesting thing. Look who has been saying virtually the same thing in Damascus – none other than David Duke, the American white supremacist:

Duke told a news conference at the 'Nation's Tent' at Rawda Square in Damascus that 'I have come to Syria to express my support to the Syrian people and their just stances...it's the duty of every free man to reject the conspiracies and threats Syria is exposed to.' He added that the pro-Israel neoconservatives in the US have influence on their country's foreign policy and have been working behind the scenes through their mass media in the US to hide ‘the reality of Israeli terrorism against the Arabs.’

On the war on Iraq, the former US Senator said the war has created a crisis in the world, adding that those who advised the American administration to go into this war have been working to widen the scope of the crisis to spread it to other countries in the region. Former Representative Duke said Iraq war cost the US 300 billion dollars, more than 2000 dead, and between 20,000 to 30,000 wounded, pushed America into a real crisis and raised hatred against its foreign policy in the world. He added that Israel has been practicing state terrorism against the Arabs, and the American people know this reality which ‘Zionist-controlled mass media seek to distort.’ Duke questioned why nobody has so far talked about the Israeli mass destruction weapons and its violation of more than 50 UN resolutions while it continues to occupy Arab territories and increase the number of its settlements in the West Bank. He added that Iraq was invaded under false allegations, that the country had WMD which never existed.Duke expressed appreciation of Syria under the leadership of President Bashar al-Assad, saying he would do his bets to convey 'the real peace-loving Syrian' stances to peoples across the world.

Neo-Nazis, the far left and the Islamists all in bed together. Go figure.

Posted by melanie at November 28, 2005