Britain and the United States are often aligned in international affairs, and Britain tends to be subservient to the will of the United States. On the Palestinian-Israeli issue, Britain and the United States have the same position, and both of them tend to support Israel. Such a stance has given Britain a certain amount of influence on the Middle East issue, but it has also brought internal problems to Britain.
Recently, the United Kingdom** has unreservedly supported Israel in its efforts to deal with the Palestinians, especially Hamas. This practice aroused opposition within the United Kingdom, especially among the Scots. In a Champions League match between Scotland's Celtic and Spain's Atletico Madrid, Glasgow fans waved Palestinian flags, sang songs in support of Palestine and even displayed slogans with Palestine.
This incident is a clear violation of the principle of separation of sport and politics, and will certainly be punished by UEFA. However, sports are not completely unrelated to politics. In fact, Western countries, led by the United States, have been using sports to promote their political goals, such as various restrictions on Russia in international sporting events. Therefore, ordinary people also think that sports are a stage where they can express their political aspirations.
This time, the Scots expressed their support for the Palestinians on the sports field, which made Sunak very uneasy in the United Kingdom, because Scotland has always had separatist tendencies, and the United Kingdom has always wanted to keep Scotland in the British family.
However, the growing independence sentiment of the Scottish people, coupled with the unconditional support of Britain for Israel in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, has made the Scots even more dissatisfied. They believed that the Scots were the real masters of the Scottish land, and that the English were the aggressors, just as the Israelis had usurped the land of Palestine.
Because of this, the Scots strongly identified with the situation of the Palestinians and developed a deep sympathy with them, and the support of the British ** for Israel intensified the resentment of the Scots.
This separatist sentiment has been a headache for the UK, and not just in Scotland, but also in Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland has had a history of separatist sentiment for a variety of reasons. This time, there was a wave of separatism in both Scotland and Ireland, making it even more difficult for the UK to deal with.
In fact, this matter is very simple, the double standards of Britain at home and abroad are the root cause of the current internal moral crisis. That is to say, doing one thing to others and one thing to oneself will cause dissatisfaction among the people in any country in the world. Britain says: How does Sunak deal with separatist sentiments in Ireland and Scotland?It will determine whether Britain can retain the name of the United Kingdom of Great Britain.