Netanyahu's Nobel nomination for Trump really is beyond satire
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Meanwhile, the nominee has recently ordered an attack on another country on spurious grounds whilst openly supporting ethnic cleansing in Palestine to enable his real-estate ambitions there to come to fruition. It is akin to Gary Glitter nominating Jimmy Savile for his services to children's welfare.
Yet the press and world leaders will not react with well-deserved scorn and derision to this proposed symbolic triumph of evil over good, of iniquitousness over equity. Starmer, Swinney and others who profess to lead will cower or remain silent in the face of overwhelming evidence of the ethical sewer that the USA has become and the ongoing depravity of the state of Israel.
Owen Kelly
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I HEAR that Trump is being promoted for the Nobel Peace Prize by his 'good buddy' Bibi Netanyahu, and if that wasn't a sick enough joke, Netanyahu's Defence Minister Katz is proposing Israel's largest concentration camp – bigger than Auschwitz Birkenau in Poland.
Inmates are to be searched on the way in and kept in, with no exit planned.
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This is to be built on the ruins of Rafah in the south of Gaza. The new Riviera with a Hotel California, where you can check out but never leave.
I await the take of Kevin Bridges or Frankie Boyle on this. Other comedians are available.
Alistair Ballantyne
Angus
ON July 7, President Trump hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a White House dinner. Also in attendance was the US Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, who has stated that 'there is no such thing as a Palestinian'.
At this dinner, Netanyahu reaffirmed his support for Trump's 'brilliant vision', which would cynically allow Palestinians the 'free choice' to move to other countries. No mention was made of Israel reducing Gaza to rubble and destroying all means of sustaining human life.
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As US political scientist John Mearsheimer has warned: 'If you don't want a two-state solution, then what are you going to do? … Israel has turned into an apartheid state … And the Israelis understand that over the long term this is probably not viable … They want to get out of that situation, and the best way to do that, from their point of view, is to ethnically cleanse the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.'
President Donald Trump and his administration seem more than willing to help Israel achieve this goal.
Terry Hansen
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
ON the 20th anniversary of the 7/7 London bombings – a day etched in grief by the murder of innocents – the UK's political and media class reached new depths of moral collapse. In a functioning democracy, the so-called 'free press' would be aflame with outrage at this treasonous conduct. Instead, they serve as silent accomplices as the government rewards terrorism, re-establishing ties with Syria's new regime led by members of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), an Al-Qaeda spinoff.
This grotesque betrayal is compounded by the banning of Palestine Action, a peaceful protest group resisting genocide, while Westminster arms Israel's slaughter in Gaza and embraces jihadists who massacred minorities in Syria.
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Foreign Secretary David Lammy's claim that engaging HTS ensures 'stability' is a sick joke. The group has already unleashed violence against Alawites, Druze, and Christians. Meanwhile, Palestine Action faces bans for spraying paint on warplanes, while the UK legitimises a regime that beheads dissenters. This isn't diplomacy – it's complicity in terror.
This moral rot underscores why Scotland must break free. An independent Scotland could reject Nato's imperialism, Zionist apartheid, and Wahhabi-funded extremism – choosing human rights over Westminster's blood-stained hypocrisy.
The UK Government has proven, yet again, that its words are poison and its actions vile. The only solution is dismantling this rotten state.
Alan Hinnrichs
Dundee
SO, Hansard is not a true record of what is said in Parliament after all, despite what we're led to believe (MP's 'we are Palestine Action' comment edited out of Hansard, thenational.scot, Jul 8). What else has been edited. Why and by whom? And who has been sacked for this?
Anyway, I am Palestine Action. I support them wholeheartedly in the fight against our murderous British government aiding and abetting the murder of civilians in Gaza. This British government are criminals using the police and courts to facilitate murder against Palestinians. How long before they use their dark forces against us?
Please try to jail me so I can show just how stupid this Labour government is. I'd welcome you trying to jail me and every other citizen who knows this British government are scum.
Come on. Do it. Make an example of me.
Jim Taylor
via thenational.scot
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