Andy Whitmore of Christians for Justice in the Middle East/Kansas City writes:
I'm including a link
to George Galloway's speech to about 300 here in the KC area Thursday
night. Early in his talk, he addressed the demonizing article ("Local groups to host Brit who justifies terror") in the
Kansas City Jewish Chronicle, and did it well. [Galloway called the Holocaust possibly "the greatest crime of all human history" and said Albert Einstein refused to be president of Israel because its "future was built on the ruins of a disinherited people."] The editor who wrote the
piece, Rick Hellman, was in the audience (and I commend him for that).
It will be interesting to see how Rick responds after being faced with
the errors and bias in his piece. If you listen to about three minutes
you'll hear what Galloway says about that and anti-Semitism.
Hearing
his talk isn't the same as being there. He's a galvanizing speaker. We
raised $103,000 in pledges for medical relief for Gaza, to be processed
through Pastors for Peace.
There were also a couple of local speakers who made very short talks. One is a young man whose mother lives in Gaza and works for UNRWA. She is diabetic and cannot get insulin.
The other is a doctor who has traveled across the Atlantic, journeyed to Egypt, waited at the border six (I think he said six) times for a couple weeks each, trying to get in to see his blind mother, now in her late 80s. He nearly wept as he told of traveling so far, and so often, then being less than 20 miles from his mother, but not permitted to see her. He is going with Mr. Galloway's convoy this month. I pray he and all of them get in, that the supplies get in.
It's truly a historic mission. One day we'll look back on this and marvel at Galloway's commitment to social justice at a time when so much of the world "passed by on the other side." (Luke 10:25-37)
