Middle East Monitor – May 26, 2020
Richard Lyle.
A member of the Scottish parliament (MSP) has sparked outrage by suggesting that the ethnic cleansing of 750,000 Palestinians when Israel was founded in their land in 1948 was “self-inflicted”.
The remark by Richard Lyle, of the Scottish National Party (SNP), was made in a proposed amendment to a parliamentary motion marking the 72nd anniversary of the Nakba (Catastrophe).
More than half of the indigenous Palestinian population was expelled by Zionist militias and the nascent Israeli army between 1947 and 1949 in a deliberate campaign of ethnic cleansing known as “Plan Dalet”. Historians explain that this was intended to gerrymander a Jewish majority in Palestine through violent means. The Nakba is marked annually by Palestinians and their supporters around the world.
Lyle, who is the deputy convener of the cross-party group called “Building Bridges With Israel” (BBI) and has visited the Zionist state at the invitation of the Israeli embassy in London, made an amendment to a Nakba Day parliamentary motion submitted by fellow SNP member Sandra White MSP.
The motion recognised the “mass eviction of over 750,000 people from historic Palestine land, which included the destruction of over 500 towns and villages” which “led to generations of pain for the Palestinian people, who continue to live under a state of occupation.”
However, Lyle’s amendment peddled an Israeli propaganda trope blaming the victims. The Nakba, he added, was “sadly a self-inflicted tragedy, which must, after all these years, be finally resolved by peaceful means and discussions between the parties involved.”
This triggered a backlash. Some SNP members have condemned the move, calling the motion an “insult to every Palestinian worldwide” and describing it as a “disgusting piece of revisionist history.”
“It is disgraceful to suggest that the Nakba and subsequent occupation which has led to the killing of tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children is somehow self-inflicted,” insisted Nadia El-Nakla, the convenor of SNP Friends of Palestine, whose family members were and are victims of Israel’s ethnic cleansing of their land. El-Nakla added that Lyle’s comments are “abhorrent… racist and hate filled.” She called for the amendment to be withdrawn and for Lyle to apologise.
The amended motion has apparently garnered the support of just one other MSP, Conservative Adam Tomkins.
Lyle is a controversial figure in Scotland on the issue Palestine and Israel. In 2018 he was part of a BBI delegation to the occupation state. According to the Times, the trip was valued at £2,200 ($2,716) per person and was paid for by the Israeli Embassy in London. The visit was criticised sharply, especially as it coincided with Israel passing the so-called Nation State Bill. Critics, including traditional supporters of the Zionist state, have denounced the legislation as “racist”.
The MSP may face disciplinary action by his own party for his comments. SNP affiliate groups are said to be reporting Lyle to the party’s national secretary.
Anyone who calls the theft of Palestine by European Satanic Ashkenazi Bolshevik Khazars
“self inflicted” is not only an ignorant fool, but a worshiper of Satan. The Ashkenazi Satanists in Israel must return to their real homelands in Russia, Eastern Europe , and Ukraine.
Purhaps a Freemason, A zionist Flunky, and worse than a Cockroach.
This country rearly does have some offal in political positions
This is a vile ‘low point’ For the SNP, Which was founded to advance Scottish nationalismm !
Stanley Louden
Attenrion and Jewish readers, I support the full Genocide of Arabs.
Thr Jews are the rukers of this world, I have csme from Anti Jew to prasing the jew. Why the change. I habe had enough of low IQ Arab Rapsits comong to my countey6and demanding We change our way of life for them. Well Fuck you, Dont come to my country and raoe the woman rob the poor, fuck yiur sister and mum. Incest has gone through the roof.
I now am a Mega Supporter of Genocide of Arabs.
Just wait to you have the uncomfortable moment when you realise that heloing3these Scum parasites we are sowi6our own demise.
Yes The whole if the Middle East belongs to Jews. When the war kicks off i will happily slaughter these Arabs whom have raped my COUNTRY and im sick of it.
I would love nothing more to see every Mosque where i live blown to peices, i want to see Arms legs heads rollijg doen the street, i want to kill as many Arabs as possible.
I fucken hate them.
IMO typical Israel Lover thus a controlled zombie politician.
Maybe he has his hand in the Zionist bag and if then of course with the conditions to condem everything else but zionist.
Nathan dont forget the jewish owned news media kept it quiet about the jewish child rape gands of the Krays leon Britten Greville janner Amazing james randi
who went after boys in care homes in what the UK column described as on ” an industrial scale” Little boys are to jews what little girls are to arabs
I blame the politicians who brought them all in.
Incidentally it wa sthe British government who resuscitated the dead welsh language paid for all road signs school books in fact everything to be done in welsh
they also pushed scottish nationalism again spending millions of pounds and even tried to push norther ireland back to the irish
but British nationalism ? ah no thats racist
Time we strung up these sick politicvians and put real people into office