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Sheffield To Recognise Palestine As A State?

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I have just read this on the star.

 

What an oddity.  Leaving alone for a minute the fact that Palestine is not and never has been a state, shouldn't our council be concentrating of more Sheffield stuff than this?

 

Should a local council ever get involved with international politics?

 

 

All seems very odd.

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14 minutes ago, JamesR123 said:

All seems very odd.

So you disapprove of town twinning then as well?

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6 minutes ago, Top Cats Hat said:

So you disapprove of town twinning then as well?

Hmmm... :huh:


... well if it means we get to send Julie Dore on a 'fact finding' trip to Gaza then I'm all for it! :thumbsup:

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Doesn't Palestine have laws punishing gay people?

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29 minutes ago, Top Cats Hat said:

So you disapprove of town twinning then as well?

No not really, though I've never seen the point.

 

That isn't really the same thing as involving yourself in international politics though.

Just now, Nightbird said:

Doesn't Palestine have laws punishing gay people?

They do.  I stopped and had a go at a "Friends of Palestine" stool at Manchester Pride in 2017.  They seemed very abashed and promised to leave.

 

I didn't stay to check they had.  Nasty people.

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Questions need to be asked of the council, and all groups that support Palestine against Israel, about how they can support a society/state that has zero LGBT rights and punishes gay people with up to 10 years imprisonment.

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12 minutes ago, Nightbird said:

Questions need to be asked of the council, and all groups that support Palestine against Israel, 

Of course most Palestinian solidarity campaigns support the people of Palestine and not any particular sect or political party.

 

Nice try, but no cigar!

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8 minutes ago, Top Cats Hat said:

 

 

Of course most Palestinian solidarity campaigns support the people of Palestine and not any particular sect or political party.

 

Nice try, but no cigar!

The people of Palestine that voted for the government that sets the laws.

 

I do wonder how people would feel if Palestine was populated by white secularists. If they put gays in prison and voted for a party that stated it wanted to kill all black people (instead of Jews).  Would people be so supportive?

 

Would be an interesting thing to observe.

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3 minutes ago, JamesR123 said:

The people of Palestine that voted for the government that sets the laws.

Don’t be stupid!

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9 minutes ago, Top Cats Hat said:

Don’t be stupid!

I am not.  Say the Lib Dems proposed to male homosexuality illegal, would they get voted in?

If it was already illegal, making it legal would be a pretty big vote winner.

 

Think things though before.calling other people stupid.

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11 minutes ago, Top Cats Hat said:

Don’t be stupid!

Are the people of Palestine not more homophobic than the people of the UK?

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8 minutes ago, JamesR123 said:

Think things though before.calling other people stupid.

Maybe you should.

 

Poland was full of mad homophobic Catholics when Germany invaded in 1939. Are you saying that we should have just left Hitler to it?

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