Andrew Neil: ‘people turned their backs against the terrorism Sands symbolised…’

Bobby Sands’ funeral (100,000 people turned up to mourn his death):

2/2 The police have stopped the conference. As the son of a Holocaust survivor who had dozens of her family murdered by the Nazis, I’m disgusted by Germany: not enough to have committed 2 genocides, u now arm & support a 3rd, & stop any1 talking about it. Depraved & indefensible

Solidarity Ghassan Abu Sitta We were supposed to be speaking on a panel together this evening in Berlin, me via recorded message. Ghassan Abu Sitta was detained by German authorities & is being deported for wanting to reveal the atrocities he witnessed as a doctor in Gaza 1/2

Hours after he was installed as Glasgow University Rector, Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah has been detained & denied entry to Germany - where was due to speak at a conference - at Berlin Airport.

This is scandalous & must be widely condemned.

That's Bobby Sands MP

30,492 Voted for him in 1981 while he was in jail on Hunger Strike.

This is a significant piece by Davy Adams in the The Irish News

“Positive political leadership & example-setting should be welcomed. These are vital if we are ever to end segregation & move further down the road to reconciliation.”

An incredible achievement Ghassan Abu Sitta and powerful expression of global solidarity with Palestinian freedom. Chomhghairdeas 🇵🇸🇮🇪 #CeasefireNOW #Palestine

409. from a hospital.

About two weeks ago, Israeli occupation soldiers fired at our colleague, nurse Mohammed Abed, during the evacuation process of PRCS Al-Amal Hospital by medical teams and patients after its invasion. Since then, his fate remained unknown, as the ambulance crew was prevented from…

Read this. Then read it again.

🚨 Al-Jazeera has uncovered and released new shocking footage showing the Israeli army firing at unarmed Palestinians who had gathered to collect food aid dropped from planes.

A couple of thoughts about today's cost of Irish Unity debate. I am struck that reports like FitzGerald/Morgenroth have a disproportionate impact because, yes, negative assessments are championed by vested (i.e. partitionist/Unionist) interests, but also 1/

A lot of comment on this - some fair, some not.

One observation. ~Half the €20bn is equalising NI public sector pay and welfare up. But there is no corresponding rise in the tax take.

So, it assumes a 0% marginal income tax on the pay rise and no VAT/Excise on higher spending.

'Dead Cat Bingo' since #GoodFriday , does a third lap today-
So far, we've a 1970's hip Martin McGuinness allegedly selling us for silver.
Followed by alleged SF voter irregularities from the 80's
and now allegedly a United Ireland will cost £100 million-billion-squillion pounds.

israel has killed more aid workers in the tiny gaza strip than have died in all of the countries in the rest of the world combined in any of the last 30 years

This report includes costs covered by the 'NI subvention' than would not transfer to a united Ireland and takes such a pessimistic view of change than its conclusions are not reasonable. A short reply.

This is the equivalent of going to a restaurant, eating a meal and then being given a bill that includes the costs of the plate, cutlery, table and chair.

The assumptions in this report are nonsensical.

The real figure's less than €3bn.

This person continually sent the same very strange photocopied letter to my staff and to myself. When I told him that I would report it to police, he stopped.

In Gaza, children have to carry slain children.

Knowing how Israel operates,my assessment is that Israeli forces intentionally killed #WCK workers so that donors would pull out & civilians in Gaza could continue to be starved quietly.Israel knows Western countries & most Arab countries won't move a finger for the Palestinians.