tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725411122663433189.post7076967740787096124..comments2024-01-04T19:27:02.335-08:00Comments on Zenpolitics: SNP Friends of Peace in the Middle East is a pro-Israel front groupJohn Hilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10072819649049077782noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725411122663433189.post-14635030612224434062016-10-22T17:25:06.546-07:002016-10-22T17:25:06.546-07:00Statement from Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disar...Statement from Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (SCND), posted at their facebook page: http://www.banthebomb.org/index.php/102-uncategorised/1889-statement-for-current-scnd-chair<br /><br />Statement for current SCND chair<br /><br />Published on Tuesday, 18 October 2016 07:28<br /><br />We have been contacted by some of our members and supporters expressing concern about one of the puppets we use at campaigning events appearing to shake hands at the SNP conference with someone from a group called SNP Friends For Peace in the Middle East.<br /><br />As current chair of Scottish CND I thought it would be useful to make the following points:<br /><br />1. I understand that the SNP Friends for Peace in the Middle East group has similar membership to a group called Glasgow Friends of Israel. I also understand that unfortunately both these groups support current Israeli Government policies toward the Palestinian people. It is my view shared by many Peace Movement activists that these policies which include the building of illegal settlements on Palestinian land are cruel and heartless . <br /><br />2. Scottish CND opposes the presence of nuclear weapons in Scotland and throughout the world. We are very concerned that Israel and a number of other countries posses nuclear weapons. Our secretary has recently returned from talks at the United Nations which are aimed at progressing a Global Ban on Nuclear Weapons.<br /><br />3. In my view it is unfortunate that the group Called SNP Friends of the Middle East and Glasgow Friends of Israel seem to be trying to imply that their activities are endorsed by Scottish CND on the basis of a handshake with a puppet that we use at campaigning events. <br /><br />4. it is quite easy to get a photo with our puppets at the events they attend. Over the last couple of years many individuals and group representatives have had their photo taken with the puppet. People tend to get their photo taken because they support the work of Scottish CND rather than their own publicity purposes. <br /><br />Arthur West<br /><br />Current Chair of Scottish CNDJohn Hilleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10072819649049077782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725411122663433189.post-43946053087396239302016-10-22T11:48:58.444-07:002016-10-22T11:48:58.444-07:00But "..promoting common dialogue towards a tw...But "..promoting common dialogue towards a two state solution" is not even a front: it's flaming racism. The "pro-Palestine" folks need to get this straight, once and for all - IF there are any real "pro-Palestine folks involved. The truth about a "two state solution" has been very well understood for as long as the term has been around - at least 40 years.<br /><br />A "two state solution" is openly racist - it ostensibly means to promote perpetuation of ethnic-cleansing and continued Jewish supremacy in most of Palestine - quite bad enough, but that's not all. It's set up to fail, since the Zionists certainly know that racism is not a solution for peace - even if most of their adversaries fail to understand that.<br /><br />The real point of a "two state solution" is to steer attention away from what is OBVIOUSLY the only real solution: STOP ALL THE RACISM NOW. Nothing less than that would be tolerated in any other case of openly-declared racist violence - and racist violence cannot be more openly-declared than the ongoing ethnic-cleansing of Palestine in broad daylight - or forcing a Jewish state into indigenous Palestine.<br /><br />Talk about a two state solution, in one form or another has been the primary backdrop for constant Zionist expansion, ever since the "Partition Plan" was presented to the UN in the late 1940s. That is its purpose - to let the Israelis appear to be trying for peace, with a plan that can never even reach serious negotiation, in order to facilitate fastest-possible expansion.<br /><br />The Zionists have pulled every conceivable trick, for decades, to steer attention away from these facts, because the call for an end to all the racism cannot be disputed or defeated any other way. The "two state solution" has been the foremost of these tricks. It's absurdly phony. It's appalling that the pro-Palestine or pro-equality movement has no historic memory and needs to be re-schooled in the meaning of "racism" every few years.<br /><br />Brown v Board of Education - 1954 - the US Supreme Court found that "Separate but equal is not equal." 1954<br /><br />The obvious solution is to stop financing any policies of prejudice by anyone involved, and allow justice to replace prejudice, step by step, as in the US Civil Rights Movement.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09964242547235351725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725411122663433189.post-2972912373468024022016-10-22T06:26:22.911-07:002016-10-22T06:26:22.911-07:00Excellent piece and hits the nail on the head rega...Excellent piece and hits the nail on the head regarding this repugnant and sneaky bunch. I had Stein tell me through gritted teeth once, that "Palestine never has and never will exist". They are certainly no friends of peace in the Middle East let alone anywhere else Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725411122663433189.post-78405059533872751922016-10-21T12:45:54.958-07:002016-10-21T12:45:54.958-07:00Thanks johnThanks johnAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725411122663433189.post-79730353388594904112016-10-20T08:30:11.743-07:002016-10-20T08:30:11.743-07:00Brilliant Banana John...π΅πΈβπΎοΈπ΅πΈβπΎοΈπ΅πΈβπΎοΈπ΅...Brilliant Banana John...π΅πΈβπΎοΈπ΅πΈβπΎοΈπ΅πΈβπΎοΈπ΅πΈπͺπΌBuntyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13839190994834328499noreply@blogger.com