Scotland’s First Minister Humza Yousaf delivers a speech during the Scottish National Party (SNP) annual conference, in Aberdeen, on Tuesday. Credit: ANDY BUCHANAN – AFP (Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland all have a certain amount of self-rule under the United Kingdom, and the leader is called the “First Minister.” A Pakistani, he took his oath as a member of the Scottish Parliament in both English and in Urdu and rammed as First Minister through laws against “hate-speech” and for transgenderism.
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Gee, I remember when Scots were a fierce and thrifty keltic people with red or dark hair who ate a lot of oatmeal and fought like tigers. My grandfather Waddell was a Scot.
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Scotland’s Leader Calls to Welcome Palestinian Refugees to the U.K., Amid Hamas-Israel War
Scottish Minister, who has in-laws in Gaza, urges U.K. to commit to refugee program, as Egypt blocks Palestinians from crossing the border: ‘You care about human rights so much — well you take them,’ Egyptian official said
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“I am calling on the U.K. government to take two urgent steps,” he declared. “Firstly, they should immediately begin work on the creation of a refugee resettlement scheme for those in Gaza who want to, and are able to, leave. And when they do so, Scotland is willing to be the first country in the U.K. to offer safety and sanctuary to those caught up in these terrible attacks.”
His in-laws live in Scotland but were visiting relatives in Gaza when Hamas militants poured into Israel and killed 1,300 people last weekend.
After landing, Sunak said he and the United Kingdom “stand with Israel. I’m looking forward to my meetings with the prime minister and the president.”
During an address in Parliament earlier this week, Sunak stated that six British nationals had been killed and another 10 are missing following Hamas’ attack, which he described as “a pogrom.”
Hamas has told people not to leave and says roads out are unsafe. It says dozens of people were killed in strikes on cars and trucks carrying refugees on Friday, which Reuters could not independently verify. In turn, Israel says Hamas is preventing people from leaving in order to use them as human shields, which Hamas denies.
Since Hamas’ bloody attack on Israel sparked a massive retaliation in Gaza, Egypt’s leadership has frantically tried to negotiate the entry of humanitarian aid through its crossing into the Palestinian territory — partially in hopes of averting an exodus into Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.
A senior Egyptian security official told The Associated Press that Egypt has taken “unprecedented measures” to prevent a breach to its borders with Gaza. Thousands of security forces have been deployed at the border, he said.
“You want us to take 1 million people? Well, I am going to send them to Europe.You care about human rights so much — well you take them,”
Reuters and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
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…..Scotland the Brave
I fought these guys in WWI — playing their bagpipes (the first man over the top was a bagpiper; there were 5,000 of them in WWI that went right into combat) and they were wearing their kilts, too — terrifying warriors. https://www.historynet.com/ladies-from-hell-bagpipers-led-the-charge-during-wwi/
Bagpipes were very effective on courage: https://archive.org/details/PipersOfTheTrenches
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