{"id":5596,"date":"2010-06-07T13:15:25","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T17:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=5596"},"modified":"2010-06-07T13:15:25","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T17:15:25","slug":"the-former-british-mp-behind-the-next-turkish-flotilla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/5596\/the-former-british-mp-behind-the-next-turkish-flotilla\/","title":{"rendered":"The Former British MP Behind the Next Turkish Flotilla"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s amazing in the modern era where information is so plentiful that news pieces more often look like a schizophrenic\u2019s diary entry than a well thought out update on a continuing story.\u00a0 Today\u2019s example is courtesy of an article in the UK\u2019s The Guardian<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 The story begins with the serious, but by no means startling, news that Iran is publicly offering to escort future convoys to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza.<\/p>\n

Some readers may remember this is the same regime which sponsored a Holocaust denial conference<\/a>, maintains a president who promises to destroy the Jewish State<\/a>, and is the primary supplier of arms and rockets<\/a> to the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas.<\/p>\n

Iran also doesn\u2019t have much love for the United States.\u00a0 Neither does one of radical Islam\u2019s most corrupt Western supporters, former British MP George Galloway<\/a>.\u00a0 An unrepentant Socialist, Galloway seems like many other A-list apologists for totalitarian governments, having secured his status with a speech praising Saddam Hussein<\/a> in the dictator\u2019s presence, and excoriating American foreign policy<\/a> in an appearance before the U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n

Given just that bit of information, you might<\/em> think mentioning him at the end of a news story about the coming flare up between Israel and Iran would be adequate:<\/p>\n

George Galloway, the founder of Viva Palestina, announced in London that two simultaneous convoys “one by land via Egypt and the other by sea” would set out in September to break the Gaza blockade. The sea convoy of up to 60 ships will travel around the Mediterranean gathering ships, cargo and volunteers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The paragraph could have introduced Galloway as \u201cCurrent Hamas financial contributor George Galloway,\u201d or \u201cOil for Food profiteer George Galloway,\u201d to give a much clearer understanding of the man organizing the September \u201csolidarity\u201d sailing trip.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0At the very least, the article could have quoted the announcement from the Viva Palestina<\/a> website detailing that the talks to plan the trip occurred in Istanbul, Turkey, with Galloway saying he wanted Egypt to guarantee safe passage for the next convoy.\u00a0 But instead of linking Galloway to the corrupt groups running various Middle East governments, the article reads like he is unconnected from the people he gets paid to support.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, David Horowitz and the folks over at Discover the Networks<\/em><\/a> provide much more background and documentation than The Guardian<\/em>\u2019s Middle East editor.<\/p>\n

So, the next time you read or hear a news story and wonder if you\u2019ve heard the name, place, or group before, run it through Discover the Networks <\/em>before moving on.\u00a0 Within ten minutes you\u2019ll be way more informed than most of the information gatekeepers in the MSM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s amazing in the modern era where information is so plentiful that news pieces more often look like a schizophrenic\u2019s diary entry than a well thought out update on a continuing story.\u00a0 Today\u2019s example is courtesy of an article in the UK\u2019s The Guardian.\u00a0 The story begins with the serious, but by no means startling, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1364,1363,1362,1361,269,130,274,386,1017,1365,387,1366,536],"class_list":["post-5596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-david-horowitz","tag-discover-the-networks","tag-egypt","tag-george-galloway","tag-hamas","tag-iran","tag-iraq","tag-israel","tag-msm","tag-oil-for-food","tag-palestine","tag-saddam-hussein","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5596"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5602,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5596\/revisions\/5602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}