Email alert: 27th January 2009

Message from George Galloway MP

The response to the aid convoy is overwhelming. On Sunday and Monday I spoke at meetings of 500 in Rochdale, 1,000 in Bolton and 600 in Manchester. They raised tens of thousands of pounds to be sent on the convoy to Gaza.

Over 27 vehicles have now signed up and a small group of volunteers are working flat out on the final details.

So great is the response that we are calling a deadline of midnight on Friday 30 January – this Friday – for new vehicles wanting to join. There is nothing to stop money being collected all the way up to the set off date and, indeed, beyond it.

We are asking people to send a Valentine to Palestine with a donation to the address below and we will get it there.

Money is the most versatile form of aid. It can be used to buy essential goods cheaply in Egypt or directly by the Palestinian authorities to purchase what the people need.

There is a movement sweeping Britain in defiance of the likes of the BBC, which is prepared to let Palestinian children die for the sake of bias and dogma.

We are also a political movement. The Palestinian people need political support here and, crucially, throughout the Arab world. It is that that is ultimately the key to the liberation of Palestine.

Political pressure now is also the only way that serious aid is going to get into Gaza: by forcing the opening of the Egyptian crossing at Rafah.

That’s why the convoy is going through Arab North Africa. It is by raising high the banner of Palestine there that the pressure of Arab public opinion can be brought to bear to allow access to Gaza.

The journey across North Africa is no picnic. It is an arduous campaign to win the active support the Palestinian people need. But it is all the more important because of that.

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