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The Spectator - Iain Macwhirter - [https://archive.ph/2023.03.26-074115/https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/is-alex-salmond-behind-the-snps-implosion/ ''Is Alex Salmond behind the SNP’s implosion?''], 26 March 2023: ''It is hard to pinpoint precisely the moment when things started to go wrong for the Scottish National Party, but as good a place as any to start is the 24 August 2018. That was when it is alleged that someone in Sturgeon’s inner circle leaked to the Daily Record the extraordinary intelligence that the former first minister of Scotland, Alex Salmond, had been accused of sexually assaulting two female civil servants. ... In January 2019, Salmond won a ruling from the Court of Session that the Scottish government had acted ‘unlawfully’ in accusing him of sexual misconduct and awarded him £512,000 in costs. A year on, Salmond was acquitted by a High Court jury of 13 charges of attempted rape and sexual assault after a sensational trial. His accusers included senior figures in the SNP and civil servants.In the subsequent parliamentary inquiry into the affair, Salmond in turn accused Sturgeon’s husband, party CEO Peter Murrell, of personally organising a criminal ‘conspiracy’ to ‘ruin’ his reputation and have him ‘imprisoned’. ... It was sometime between #MeToo and the turmoil of the Salmond affair that Sturgeon decided to dedicate herself to the cause of self-identification (self-ID). It was a cause which, she hoped, would show that she and Scotland were in the vanguard of progressive reform.''

Middle East Eye - David Hearst - [https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-jewish-supremacist-state-never-win-why ''Israel: Why a Jewish supremacist state can never win''], 12 April 2023: ''Every generation of Israeli Jews has worked hard to maintain the myth that a new state was being created in an empty space or to use the classic fake news slogan that Palestine was "a land without people for a people without land". ... Denial on this scale is not only a function of psychology. Although it is that too. Israel's creation is seen by its builders as a miracle of Jewish history. Denial exists for practical reasons. Because to acknowledge even one element of what happened, and continues to happen every day, is to cast doubt not only on Israel’s past but its future as well. ... Yossi Beilin, the former minister, and negotiator of the Oslo Accords said recently that believing Israeli assurances that they would freeze settlement construction was one of the biggest mistakes Palestinian negotiators made. ... We presented it to the Palestinians and they believed us so they agreed. That was their biggest mistake. They did not demand an explicit clause [in the Oslo Accords] on freezing the settlements because they believed us."''

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