just found this interview with Galloway on Sky News. finally someone on mainstream news is allowed to speak some truth about the israeli hizbollah conflict and call out the news reporter's inherently biased questions. before anyone jumps on me about galloway's reputation or anything else, spare your breath. i'm only saying that its nice to see someone speaking some truth about the issue, such as his comment to the effect that mainstream news tends to value israeli blood more than lebanese or palestinian blood, which i believe is completely true. here it is on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbmgkCiwTKo

It looked like a silly pissing contest to me! Galloway strikes me a historical revisionist! His first big mistake is claiming that Israel never fully withdrew from Lebanon in 2000. Well the UN takes a different view of the matter. The UN certified Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon as complete after 2000.

So Galloway seems to have a rather unique view of history not based on any sort of legal historical fact!

The second mistake is that he claimed Hezbollah was not a terrorist organisation? Hmmmm what would you call a group that receives these kinds of demands from Human Rights Watch?

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Careful with the term 'terrorist', Frank. The Zionists have killed ten times as many civilians as Hizb'allah, HRW have condemned them frequently yet you throw 'terrorist' at Hizb'allah.

Israel may have withdrawn troops from the UN vision of 'Lebanon' but there are still disputed areas. Also, the Zionists have continued to overfly Lebanon and to make incursions. In addition they have carried out many assassinations inside Lebanon, most with acknowledgment.

That's hardly a 'withdrawal'.

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No there is only one disputed area, and that area is actually part of Syria historically. Syria however has gone along with the fact that it is part of Lebanon in order to give the Hezzis cover to claim they are a resistance movement.

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Calling Shebaa 'part of Syria' was simply a means of facilitating the ruse that the Zionists had complied with Resolution 425.

The 'areas' disputed are the Farms. If it was a singular 'farm' in dispute it would be 'area', but it isn't. It's plural. Got that, Gort ?

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I'd say it's the complete opposite. The mainstream news talks alot about Lebonese casualties. In fact they seem to be fixated on it.

They show devastated buildings in Lebanon, but they merely show an unmanned "drone" getting shot down over Israel.

I think the reason for the disparity is because of technilogical disparity.

Israel actually knows where it's missles land, They got it on videotape and have foward recon etc. However Hezbollah's rockets are unguided, notoriously innacurate and Israel does not want to let them know exactly where they land and act as Hezbollah's spotters. Doing that would help them make more accurate strikes.

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Wise words from a wise man.

Umm, Shebaa farms is a single piece of land, not several.

Funny people think that is Israel withdrew from the "occupied" lands, this would be over.

"If they go from Sheba'a, we will not stop fighting them. Our goal is to liberate the 1948 borders of Palestine...[Jews] can go back to Germany or wherever they came from.” - Hezbollah spokesman Hassan Ezzedin

tomtallis;
It's a piece of land comprising farms, or at least it did prior to the Israelis desolating them. The farms once had populations, working different areas. The Shebaa Farms haven't always been a misappropriated tract of Lebanon used by the Zionists to humiliate and attack the Lebanese.

One day there'll be farms again, and no Zionists.

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Shebaa Farms have never been a part of Lebanon.

Nancy Soderberg, US Ambassator to the UN under President Clinton, said it best:
"When it was clear the Israelis were going to withdraw fully from Lebanon, Syrian and Lebanese officials fabricated the fiction that this small, sparsely populated area was part of Lebanon. They even produced a crudely fabricated map to back up the dubious claim. I and United Nations officials went into the map room in the United Nations and looked at all the maps of the region in the files for decades. All showed the Shebaa Farms clearly in Syria."