Tony Blair should have known better... Frankenstein is a Jewish name, after all.
Iraq: Blair's Suez?
George Galloway talks to Omayma Abdel-Latif in Cairo about the future of the Middle East, the Anglo-American alliance, the impending war on Iraq and division within the British Labour Party's ranks
weekly.ahram.org.eg
Excerpt:
According to Galloway, the story of Israel is like "Frankenstein's monster".
"You make a monster for your own use and then you discover that actually it is beyond your control. They [the West] found this with Zionism, which they encouraged and helped and made powerful to serve their interests in the Middle East and now they have discovered that it does not obey orders. They would like them [the Israelis] to behave more reasonably, they want the Israeli electorate to elect some one less provocative. They would like the Israeli army to [operate] according to western orders, but they've discovered that Sharon, Netanyahu and Zionism are beyond their day-to-day control."
Galloway is hopeful that, with respect to Israel, a change in public opinion is underway. At the governmental level, however, the status quo remains.
"At the end of the day Israel is an important imperial asset. It is the guardian controlling this region with its weapons of mass destruction."
One would expect that such radical views would be likely to alienate his British voters and subject him to negative press coverage. Indeed, he has been dubbed "Saddam's agent", "Saddam's mouthpiece" and is routinely branded as an anti-Semite. However, Galloway does not seem to give much credence to the press's hostile attitudes. He remains defiant.
"When you stand against the interests of the state, the rich and powerful, the least they will call you is controversial." This was during the 1970s, when anybody who involved himself in the Palestinian cause was considered untrustworthy by mainstream society.
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