“London is hotbed of pro-Arab movement”: George Galloway spoke to SOAS students.

The wording about London in the title belongs to an Israeli think-tank chair and was sounded at a turbulent student gathering at the School of Oriental and African Studies featuring the contribution by George Galloway, former UK Parliament member and rigorous campaigner for Palestinians rights.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Galloway

 

In concluding part of Q&A session George Galloway exclaimed that he is happy to see the Great Arab Revolution unleashed.  SOAS students from different countries were united to condemn the Western plot of renovating dictatorships in Middle East. Western interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq have not brought any dividends to democracy in those countries.  Rampant corruption, piles of social problems, injustice and clash of group interests were the most visible outcomes of armed “democracy” incursions.

The West does not want democracy for developing countries. Dictators better serve for Western interests than actual power of the people. Kaddafi is dictator, but he should only be toppled by Libyans themselves, and by no means through any military intervention by the West.   It has been a kind of discovery to see how big mistrust towards the West was generated in democratically thinking student community. 

On a more theoretical level the assessment given by the gathering to the recent uprising in Arab world called it anti-imperialistic democratic revolution. Having seen such mistrust towards the West hesitations of the Western governments  to undertake any military pressure on Libyan government become well understood. The stubborn resistance of Libyan leadership to any military campaign might enhance anti-western aspirations not only in Arab countries.  And Colonel Kaddafi has been long aiming to the leadership of anti-imperialistic fight in Arab world and Africa.