Bravo! Georgie...!

Speaking to an adoring Canadian crowd at the Bronson Centre, George Galloway presents himself as a champion of truth and justice, of human rights and free speech. And he takes especial umbrage at the attempts of 'certain groups' to disallow him entry to Canada through their incessant lobbying, and he intends to do something about it.

"I have instructed my lawyers in Canada to bring an action for defamation against Bernie Farber, the CEO of the Canadian Jewish Congress, and CTV for comments he made that they allowed him to make." All such Jewish organizations are mind-terrorists, and Mr. Galloway will not permit them to silence him.

"I am not a terrorist. I am not a threat to Canada's national security", he thundered. Well, he is an affront to our democratic values and an insult to our intelligence ... how's that? There are those among us who feel that they are sufficiently endowed with moral and ethical balance and the capability to weigh issues fairly, and they do champion this man.

Whose own fairly liberal Labour party in Great Britain found him just too much to bear, and threw him out of the party, in self-defence of their own cerebral balance in jeopardy through close proximity to his harangues. This is a man who knows his own mind, and who respects himself enormously, and insists, through sheer force of personality that respect is due him out of all proportion to his message.

His formidable personality? Railing and raging at those who deny the 'truth' of his impassioned assertions? "We (royal 'we'?) will not be intimidated by Farber, Kenney, Harper and other apologists for the crimes. We will go on telling the truth about the plight of the Palestinian people." It's the force of good against the forces of evil.

His message? How about a fairly verbatim recounting of just exactly what did eventuate when his 'peace' caravan visited Gaza early last month?

"Whatever we brought we will give. Tomorrow, Allah willing, at 10 o'clock in the morning, we will give all our vehicles, our keys, our aid, our money to Ismail Haniya, the elected prime minister of Palestine.

"Maybe the American government, the British, and the Israelis don't recognize Ismail Haniya as prime minister of Palestine, but we recognize Ismail Haniya as the prime minister of Palestine. And he is our prime minister also, because all over the world, there has grown a slogan: In our thousands, in our millions, we are Palestinians. All of us are Palestinians, and Ismail Haniya is the elected prime minister of all of us.

"My son, Zinedine George Galloway, is less than two years old, but he watched us live on television yesterday from London. He was shouting 'viva' to the television. When he is a man, Allah willing, he will remember that his father decided to act, and made it to Palestine. One day, if not me, then him, will come back to you, in free Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital.

"We are giving you now 100 vehicles and all of the contents, and we make no apology for what I am about to say: We are giving them to the elected government of Palestine. Just in case the British government or the European Union want to face me in any court, let me tell them live on television: I personally am about to break the sanctions on the elected government of Palestine. Many of my friends have to give their cash to charities. By Allah, we carried a lot of cash here. You thought we were all fat. We are not fat. This is money that we have around our waists. And we have to give this... Some of my friends have to give this money to charities, and they will do this in private later this evening, because they need receipts and it's not practical to do it here.

"But I, now, here, on behalf of myself, my sister Yvonne Ridley, and the two Respect councillors - Muhammad Ishtiaq and Naim Khan - are giving three cars and 25,000 pounds in cash to Prime Minister Ismail Haniya. Here is the money. This is not charity. This is politics. The government of Palestine is the best people where this money is needed. We are giving this money now to the government of Palestine. If I could, I would give them 10 times, 100 times more. We are against this siege. We are opposing this siege. We are breaking this siege. We are breaking this siege.

"I am saying now to the British and European governments: If you want to take me to court, I promise you, there is no jury in all of Britain who will convict me. They will convict you for the siege of the Palestinian people. Revolution until victory! Revolution until victory! Revolution until victory! Viva, viva! There's more money coming in from my friends. Viva viva, Palestine!"

"We are to beg your forgiveness for Balfour. All the British are not Balfour. All the British are not Tony Blair."

The Balfour Declaration? Think Winston Churchill, that great hero of Great Britain's battle against Nazi Germany, who supported a Jewish homeland.