Where's George?

George Galloway-British Member of Parliament
(You can't make this up, folks.)



According to the latest news reports, Georgie of Arabia Galloway, who occasionally masquerades as a British MP, is apparently lost somewhere in the desert sands of the Middle East as he and his motley international crew of misfits called Viva Palestina is attempting to find a way into Gaza to deliver more goodies to his terrorist friends of Hamas.

I'm sure you have heard all about how those mean-spirited Israelis have refused to allow supplies across their border into Gaza that leave the Gazans wallowing in misery. Well, actually, it is none other than Egypt that has refused Galloway's Viva Palestina caravans into Gaza through their border. In fact, the Egyptians are so up to here with Hamas that they are constructing their own barrier to stop the smuggling of arms into Gaza. Bad news for the blustering Brit as he attempted (unsuccessfully) to enter Gaza through Egypt.

From DEBKA (an Israeli news website):

"28 Dec. Cairo has stepped up its siege measures against the Hamas-ruled Gaza. To cut off its smuggling routes through Sinai, Egypt is reinforcing the wall of iron plates embedded along the Philadelphi border of the southern Gaza Strip with a new pipe for flooding the smuggling tunnels with Mediterranean water. It is also building an electronic fence.

Cairo is expected by our sources to present Israel with the bill for these unprecedented measures when Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak meets Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu in Cairo Tuesday, Dec. 29. Our sources expect the price tag to come in the form of further concessions to Hamas' arch enemy, the Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas to tempt him to return to the negotiating table with Israel after holding back for a year.

Egypt's reckoning with the Palestinian extremist Hamas is even bitterer than Israel's. "We're finished with them," said intelligence minister Gen. Omar Suleiman.
He has made it impossible for the 250-truck convoy of medical aid organized by the British politician George Galloway to reach the Gaza Strip through Sinai, only by the roundabout route through Syria, provided it arrives before Jan. 4."

And there is this from INN (Israel National News):

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/135221


Maybe Georgie of Arabia can work his magic and part the Red Sea. If not, happy trails to Viva Palestina as they wind their way through the burning sands in search of that mystical place called Gaza. In the meantime, Georgie's constituents back home in Bullsnuts, Britain are wondering when their "representative" in Parliament will come back home and represent them. Maybe it's time to send out Stanley on a search party. ("Dr Galloway, I presume?")


"Damn it! I said "Gaza", not "Giza."