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Scottish Independence Leader Appears to Equate Israel, Islamic State
The Times of Israel ^ | 9/15/14 | Lazar Berman

Posted on 09/15/2014 7:31:58 PM PDT by Nachum

Days before Scotland votes in a referendum on independence from Great Britain, the Scottish National Party leader Alex Salmond appeared to equate Islamic State terrorism and Israel’s military campaign this summer against Hamas and other terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip. Speaking on BBC’s Andrew Marr Show on Sunday, the separatist leader responded to a question about the beheading at the weekend of British aid worker David Haines by Islamic State, describing the murder as an act “of unspeakable barbarism” and later stressing, “The Muslim community of Scotland isn’t responsible in any shape or form for atrocities or extremism in

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: 05072015; 2015election; alexsalmond; election2015; independence; islamic; israel; scotland; scotlandyet; scottish; unitedkingdom

1 posted on 09/15/2014 7:31:59 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

What a jerk.


2 posted on 09/15/2014 7:34:11 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Nachum

So many of the Scots who stayed in Scotland have apparently become so inbred they are unable to reason. It is so sad, considering the legacy of Scottish intellectualism from yore.


3 posted on 09/15/2014 7:34:29 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel (Have a wonderful day!)
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

Beware of Nationalist parties that are socialist. Nationalist-Socialist is a bad combination for Jews... and Catholics... and Gypsies...


4 posted on 09/15/2014 7:37:17 PM PDT by dangus
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To: Nachum

There is no equivalence.


5 posted on 09/15/2014 7:39:19 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: virgil

Scotland is, alas, very left wing, very hooked on welfare, and typical of the left, rather anti-Israel.

One city was so benighted that it banned books from Israel (BDS); its law was so broadly written that it literally would have banned the Bible.


6 posted on 09/15/2014 7:45:44 PM PDT by CondorFlight (I)
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To: Nachum

Given the European mindset on Israel, this may seal the deal for Scottish Independence.

It wasn’t said by accident.


7 posted on 09/15/2014 7:51:48 PM PDT by BobL (Don't forget - Today's Russians learn math WITHOUT calculators.)
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To: Nachum

A lot of us are really, really stupid. However, that’s not actually a new revelation, is it?


8 posted on 09/15/2014 8:43:23 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: Nachum

That’s common all over the U.K. and Europe.


9 posted on 09/15/2014 8:57:01 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: Nachum

If I were Scottish and had been inclined to vote Yes, this would change my vote to No.


10 posted on 09/15/2014 9:12:26 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: CondorFlight
Scotland is, alas, very left wing, very hooked on welfare, and typical of the left, rather anti-Israel.

Yep, no way to run a country and they can't sell enough shortbread or whiskey to feed their appetites for government hand outs.

11 posted on 09/15/2014 9:25:37 PM PDT by dragonblustar ( Psalm 103, Psalm 37:7, Ephesians 6:12)
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Damn Scotts!!! They Ruined Scotland!!!


12 posted on 09/15/2014 11:02:40 PM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%i)
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To: Nachum

Another “charismatic” Jew-hating socialist. If THIS is what we’re going to face with a new, independent Scotland, to hell with them. Leave ‘em under the crown.


13 posted on 09/16/2014 2:44:51 AM PDT by ScottinVA (If it doesn't include border security, it isn't "reform." It's called "amnesty.")
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To: Nachum
Was there every any confusion about where he stood?

Contemporary Celtic nationalists are far leftists who have always stood with the Arabs. Of course, this doesn't stop Jew-hating "palaeos" from supporting every Communist "national liberation movement" they can find (on the theory that every white nationalist movement, even a Communist one, is inherently opposed to the "anti-white" new world order).

Unfortunately, the English have been no great shakes when it comes to Israel either.

14 posted on 09/16/2014 3:21:00 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Throne and Altar! [In Jerusalem!!!])
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To: ScottinVA
Another “charismatic” Jew-hating socialist. If THIS is what we’re going to face with a new, independent Scotland, to hell with them. Leave ‘em under the crown.

An independent Scotland would still be under the crown. England and Scotland were two separate nations under one crown from 1603 to 1707 when the Act of Union went into effect (except for a brief period under Cromwell).

15 posted on 09/16/2014 3:23:49 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Throne and Altar! [In Jerusalem!!!])
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To: Zionist Conspirator

The UK/Israel and the Israel/UK Ambassadors both share the fact that they are English-born Jews. Although there are loud anti-Israeli elements, I believe that Anglo-Israeli relations are fundamentally strong.


16 posted on 09/16/2014 8:45:33 PM PDT by sinsofsolarempirefan
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To: CondorFlight

It isn’t.

A minority of leftists make a lot of noise and manage to indulge in acts like you mentioned, but they don’t speak for most Scots.

If we are being utterly honest, most Scots don’t care about Israel or Palestine or the ME. Between seeing the Gaza type violence on our nightly news for decades, and recent wars, most Scots, like most UK and Irish, are just utterly bored with the issue. They simply don’t care enough about it to hate or support one side or the other.


17 posted on 09/17/2014 7:59:54 AM PDT by the scotsman (UK)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Not the first time a candidate from his party did the same.

Of course, there are still morons around who claim that turning Scotland into a meaningless appendage of the European Union while destroying Scottish society by turning it into another shariah welfare hellhole amounts to “independence”.


18 posted on 09/20/2014 3:34:32 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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19 posted on 09/20/2014 5:59:01 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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