Scottish Government: "Transparency is a good thing, BUT (critical friends our secret:)"
The Ferret: When ‘critical friends’ fall out: how the Scottish Government sleepwalked into a crisis over Israel meeting:
"...we can reveal that while publicly stating that the “UK is in danger of being complicit in killing innocent civilians”, behind the scenes the Scottish Government tried to set up an earlier meeting with Swinney and the ambassador and was talking itself up as a “critical friend” of Israel...
Our findings come after a 10 month freedom of information (FoI) battle, which involved challenges to the Scottish Information Commissioner and claims from the Scottish Government that releasing details of the meeting could damage UK-Israeli relations and even be seen as “antisemitic”....
Swinney ‘actively sought a meeting’ with Israeli ambassador:
Swinney followed up with a tweet on 27 May stating that the “humanitarian catastrophe” in Gaza was “one of the greatest moral issues of our time”. ...
But secret emails show that just a week later, on 3 June, a Scottish Government official emailed the Israeli embassy, looking to speak to “someone urgently to make arrangements” for a meeting between Swinney and Israeli ambassador...
It was agreed there would be no announcement of the meeting until the Monday following...
The Scottish official then told Azvada:
“You’ll be aware we are usually inundated with freedom of information requests. Practically every meeting our ministers have is FoI’d. We redact sensitive information but the bar is high and we have to justify it. The FoIs are usually inspired by comms but if we don’t issue something, we’re criticised for being secretive!”
The official added: “Transparency is obviously a good thing, but it takes up such a lot of our time.” ..."
https://theferret.scot/scottish-government-crisis-meeting-israel/
Middle east political and economic institute: Greater Israel: an Ongoing Expansion Plan for the Middle East and North Africa:
"The recent picture of an Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) soldier with a Greater Israel badge on the uniform provoked outrage in Arab countries (Middle East Monitor, 2024). The promised land of Israel, as described in the badge photo, includes regions from the Nile to the Euphrates, from Medina to Lebanon, including territories from Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, entire Jordan, and Occupied Palestinian territories..."
https://mepei.com/greater-israel-an-ongoing-expansion-plan-for-the-middle-east-and-north-africa/
The Guardian: At least 72 Palestinians killed by Israeli fire in past 24 hours as Unwra chief brands Gaza ‘hell on earth’...:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jul/22/israel-gaza-war-latest-live-news-updates
International Criminal Court: Netanyahu:
Charges:
"Allegedly responsible for the war crimes of starvation as a method of warfare and of intentionally directing an attack against the civilian population; and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts..."
https://www.icc-cpi.int/defendant/netanyahu
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