Why are there Palestine flags at a (huge) Scottish football stadium?

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Celtic football club has long been associated with it's sympathies for Irish republicanism and independence. 60,000 turned up to tonight's Champions League game against Athletico Madrid and there was a sea of Palestinian flags waving the whole game through. Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Suella Braverman.

The club was founded in the late 19th century by Irish Catholic immigrants in the east end of Glasgow. Many had been disposed from their land and/or faced economic hardship as a direct result of British occupation and rule. Both before and after the club's foundation, the Irish in Scotland were treated as second class citizens by many in the local Protestant population.

Celtic quickly grew to be one of the two dominant clubs in Scotland and has a huge fan base both in Scotland and elsewhere. Their fans remain true to the historical memory of shared injustice inflicted on Irish people by the British ruling class.

They have empathy too.

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The gane was a 2-2 draw, btw.

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Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@Spoiledbrat It's complicated but the short answer is no.

At various stages there have been two state solutions offered to Palestinians that have been refused. However, they were refused because they were (of their time) bad deals for the Palestinians.

There were also the Oslo accords of the 90s which were supposed to oath the way for a two state solution. Arafat came under heavy criticism from his own side because it gave a way a lot.

In any case, Israel has kept building settlements on the west bank since which, is in clear breach of the agreement and also makes a future two states much harder. How can Palestinians have a state in amongst armed Israeli settlers who control much of the infrastructure?

The history is complicated and this is the shorthand summary.

However, if anyone says that Palestinians turned down the chance of a two state solution because they weren't prepared to accept any Jewish state, this is false. At least for most Palestinians and their leaders.