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Wee Rab
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PRESS STATEMENT FROM SCOTTISH PALESTINE SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN
c/o Peace & Justice Centre, Princes Street, Edinburgh EH2 4BJ
WE WILL CAMPAIGN TO STOP THE ISRAEL-SCOTLAND FOOTBALL MATCH BY ALL PEACEFUL MEANS
The SFA has invited an Israeli football team to Scotland on Wednesday 4th September. Most of these Israeli players will have undergone military training in the most highly militarised society on earth. Many will have served in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and it is very likely that some have been complicit in acts that qualify as war crimes.
It is scandalous that such an invitation should be made while the Palestinian people are suffering their 36th year of murderous military occupation under, most recently, the war criminal Ariel Sharon. We call upon the SFA to withdraw their invitation to the Israeli team immediately, on the grounds that such a fixture, at this time, is a stain on the reputation of this country. The ongoing outrages against the people of Palestine pose a serious danger to peace in the region and beyond.
The SFA's invitation is rewarding illegal settlement, the imprisonment of the whole Palestinian nation, and the construction of a vast apartheid regime on the basis of the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people and the ongoing theft of their land. How many UN resolutions or articles of the Geneva Convention does Israel have to flout before the gentlemen of the SFA take it off their 'friendly' list? It is the sheerest hypocrisy of the SFA to claim that 'politics has nothing to do with football.' (They sang a different tune recently in refusing a game with Yougoslavia.)
If the SFA does not take a stand for human rights, we will mobilise to prevent this game going ahead in Hamilton on September 4th. Against organised war criminals and their powerful supporters, our only weapons are an incensed public opinion, peaceful demonstrations and, if necessary, non-violent civil disobedience. The Israeli state has US and British weapons to massacre at will lightly armed Palestinians; as a result they were 'victorious' in Jenin and many other refugee camps. Israel is a massive military power, but we can at least take a stand for justice by making sure that the criminals are not made welcome here.
When the occupation is ended, the ethnically-cleansed Palestinian refugees are returned, and Ariel Sharon and others are on trial somewhere for their war crimes, then we can celebrate with a carnival of contacts between Scotland and all the people of the region.
MASS PROTEST: Wednesday 4th September, Ballast Stadium, Cadzow Avenue, Hamilton
Buses leave from Edinburgh Haymarket at 5.30pm. Contact PSC for seats on the buses (and info re other cities and towns.)
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Total Posts: 70 | Joined Mar. 2002 | Posted on: 4:39 pm on Aug. 15, 2002 | IP
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wonderkid69
GET A LIFE!!! |
Get these muppets tae feck....it's 22 men running around wi a baw.End of.
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Nikki Wood
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Bzzzz
One and Only! |
Fer Christs sake... whit next?
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Quia quamdiu Centum ex nobis viui remanserint, nuncquam Anglorum dominio aliquatenus volumus subiugari.
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Big Mick
GET A LIFE!!! |
Nae need, It's just a game of fitba' ! 
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There are 3 types of people in life - Scots, people who would like to be Scots and people with no ambition at all !
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fitlikemin
Opinionated Wind Bag |
So why has no-one thought of this before.......Cancel u21 game= peace in Middle East......Someone tell the Americans!!!!!!!!!!!
I have my own opinions regarding the trouble there however i,m not having anybody telling me whether i can go to a game of fitba or not.
In any case it would be Scotland i,d be supporting not Israel.
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"For these are my fountains"
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Bzzzz
One and Only! |
Whit a load of old shite. What the fuQ has Israeli/ Palestinian politics got to do with an U-21 football match? do they understand that football is a game?
I have a huge sympathy for the Palestinians but this is taking it too far.
Football is a game not a political tool.
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Quia quamdiu Centum ex nobis viui remanserint, nuncquam Anglorum dominio aliquatenus volumus subiugari.
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brixton footsoldier
GET A LIFE!!! |
Look oan the bright side... Free buses tae the game 
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maradona
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i suppose they are trying to say no countires should agree to play games against israel!!
come on tae fcuk...politics and sport are two seperate matters!
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You do the maradona and you turn around, he put the english out out out!!!
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Crozzer the Bing
Opinionated Wind Bag |
In complete and utter agreement with Bzzzz. Who the feck are they to stop a game of football?????? There are 2 sides tae this and neither is squeeky clean.
It is a game of football so let it be.
Had the English version of this stop me in London the other week. When I wouldnae sign their petition they got right shirty wi me. I didnae know enough about the whole thing tae get involved in aw that but they didnae have tae start abusing me about it.
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'... and it brings us back to doh, oh, oh, oh...' '...the future is bright, the future is tartan...'
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tartangolfer
Fresh ideas |
Football and Polotics Dont mix them together !!!
Unless of course they come up with a mandate that the mighty Dundee do the double every year !! I remember it used to happen in Eastern Europe a lot
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Bzzzz
One and Only! |
Wis that in Camden Crozzer??
I got asked to sign a petition and I too refused to sign it and they started abusing me too... some idiot bloke called me "ignorant e*****h"!!! needless to say he was lucky to escape with his teeth...
:unimpressed:
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Quia quamdiu Centum ex nobis viui remanserint, nuncquam Anglorum dominio aliquatenus volumus subiugari.
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Bruce
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Quote Bzzzz: "they started abusing me too... some idiot bloke called me "ignorant e*****h"!!! needless to say he was lucky to escape with his teeth..."
   
I'd like to have seen that!
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One Lion!!
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Total Posts: 71 | Joined July 2002 | Posted on: 6:16 pm on Aug. 15, 2002 | IP
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john b lyons
Opinionated Wind Bag |
I`d have been upset too.............cause your no English!!
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Tartan Army Sittingbourne (Kent) - all one of me !
Nemo me impune lacessit !
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ReekySporran
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Does anyone have an e-mail address for this mob so I can tell them to feck off and leave sport alone 
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www.sporran-legion.co.uk
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Ghaax
GET A LIFE!!! |
Think the SPSC should stop wasting their time on soft targets like the SFA and start attacking the Government if they are so angry.
What good are peaceful protests at a game attended by a few hundred folk in a country that is barely recognised by the British Government, never mind the Americans or the Israelis.
So they shout a few things outside a ground in Hamilton - will they even get a photo in ONE paper?
And moaning about the decisions the SFA make - we've been complaining about that for years and they haven't taken any notice. What chance have the SPSC got????
It's a pathetic attempt to hurt people who have so little bearing on what goes on in Palestine that it can be regarded as nil.
Lots of shouting + pointless protest = nothing gained.
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Sometimes we bounce off the walls & sometimes we bounce off the floor................but we always bounce back. KM
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craig smith
GET A LIFE!!! |
for those of us not going to the fairies, we should go with"it's only a football match" banners,
somebody should tell them that when we were at war with Germany we climbed out our trenches and played football with them!!!
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BRING STICKS!
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clydesider
Fresh ideas |
My reaction is very simple this statement has made
it certain that i wiil attend this match.
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Scotland forever
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Bzzzz
One and Only! |
Just for the record, in true TA fashion, no-one wis injured or assaulted in any way... especially no me!
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Quia quamdiu Centum ex nobis viui remanserint, nuncquam Anglorum dominio aliquatenus volumus subiugari.
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dougie1314
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Totally agree with what everybody has said in the end its just a game of football.
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We'll support you evermore.
F*** the score
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WillfaeSwindon
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OOOOH DEAR!!!! I think we should cancel the games against Germany coz some of the players Granparents MIGHT have fought against the british in WWII!!!
KEEP POLITICS OUT OF FOOTBALL!!!
(Edited by WillfaeSwindon at 9:48 pm on Aug. 15, 2002)
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Will
willfaeswindon@swindontartanarmy.com
http://www.swindontartanarmy.com
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