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Arnold Carton - Protestant, Unionist and Irish
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Arnold Carton - Protestant, Unionist and Irish
@ArnoldCarton
Retired Lisburn teacher living in Belfast.
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- Outrageous behavior of Israeli settlers exposed tonight on @Channel4News A Palestinian father is shot on his own land by Israeli land thieves, yet the IDF arrest the Palestinian man's son & not the Israeli settler who shot him. Trade with Israel should be banned in the UK & EU
- Replying to @Channel4NewsImagine someone saying There is no 'America'. There are no 'Americans'.
- Outstanding interview tonight by Krishnan Guru-Murthy on @Channel4News of Israel's spokesman David Mencer. If you get a chance to catch this, it was outstanding. @BBCNews need to learn how to conduct interviews from Krishnan
- Shameful that no European planes were sent to help the Palestinians of #Gaza as they were burned alive by Israeli bombs.We support the fight against devastating fires in Israel. We have activated our European Civil Protection Mechanism. Firefighter planes from Greece, Cyprus, Croatia and Italy are on their way to help fight the blaze. This is EU solidarity in action.
- As the Orange Order is prevented from walking down the Garvaghy Road for the 25th year my sympathy (as a Protestant and unionist) is with the bereaved McGoldrick, Quinn, Hamill and O’Reilly families. The inconvenience suffered by the OO is minor by comparison to their loss.
- An Irish mother in Letter Kenney will be very proud after watching her son on this video. Well done young man.Hi @NiallMcConnell5, why did you delete this video. The random Black guy you approached didn't buy your bs?
00:00 - As a Northern Protestant, I cannot see anything in what Irish President Higgins said in his Holocaust speech that would conflict with anything taught to me in Presbyterian Sunday School.
- As a unionist it would be remiss of me not to congratulate Michelle O'Neill on becoming First Minister of N. Ireland today. Congratulations. You got the votes, you deserve the post. Democracy works better than the alternative.
- 93 people were killed in a foreign country (Palestine) yesterday 2 people were killed in a different foreign country (USA) yesterday Only one of these events is causing outrage, because killing Muslims or Palestinians is regarded as a lesser crime by Sky TV news.
- I am a unionist who lives fairly close to the location of this school. Will someone explain to me how on earth it could negatively impact on my life? Why would I need to be consulted on anything other than traffic implications?Loyalist representatives tell Minister to end Irish language school plan for east Belfast ➡️ belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/education… belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/education…
- I suspect many unionists like me are uncomfortable with displays like this on our main Belfast roads. A union flag on your house is fine, but UDA flags on our lamp posts is not. Our unionist politicians should be speaking out against this.
- What justification do you have for alleging that there is a high level of anti-Semitism in Ireland. Objecting to the slaughter of Semitic children in Gaza does not make you antisemitic. Either explain or withdraw this disgraceful comment.The high levels of antisemitism in Ireland should be a huge matter of concern. That 🇮🇱 is choosing to shut its embassy says far more about 🇮🇪 than it does about Israel. Unsurprisingly the @StateDept has taken note - as have many 🇺🇸 multinational firms. Sad day @williamcrawley
- This is interesting because in Northern Ireland, even though the UDA & UVF are both banned terrorist organizations, the police will not intervene if you erect flags supporting the UVF or UDA. UK law is not applied equally across the UK or by the PSNI.BREAKING: Officers from the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) are policing the protest against the Palestine Action ban at Trafalgar Square, London. Wouldn't it have made more sense to not arrest peaceful protestors, like other forces have done? Or lift the ban?
