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Taiwan has better claim to statehood than Palestine, ex-UK PM Johnson says – report.
JPost ^ | 08.06.25

Posted on 08/08/2025 8:00:22 AM PDT by Words Matter

Taiwan has a “far more robust” claim to statehood than Palestine does, former British prime minister Boris Johnson said during a conference in Taipei, Taiwan, according to a Tuesday report by British outlet The Telegraph….

“Never in the wildest dreams of former Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, can he have believed – when he and his colleagues instigated the horror of October 7, 2023 – that only 22 months later the United Kingdom itself would be so craven and pathetic as to fall for Hamas propaganda and to turn against Israel,” Johnson wrote in his column in the UK outlet Daily Mail on Friday.

“Never did Hamas imagine that London would be so easily manipulated as to conclude that the way to end the crisis was specifically to reward Hamas for its mayhem by tearing up its long-standing policy and officially recognising the state of Palestine,” he added.

“From next month we are going to recognise this territory, at least partly controlled by Hamas, as a fully-fledged state – like France, or the United States,” he continued.

“By recognising Palestine, the UK government is effectively claiming that Palestine is an entity with recognised borders, even though those borders are, of course, very far from clear, and the UK is claiming that Palestine has a viable government, when that government is actually shared between Fatah and Hamas, and Hamas, in case you have forgotten, is a psychotic Islamofascist death cult that treats women as second-class citizens and throws gays off rooftops,” he stated.

“We thought it was worthwhile to rid the world of a homicidal Islamist death cult, and we were right. It was awful, but we could see no other way. In the end, it worked, and in the end – grim though things now seem – the Israeli operation will work in Gaza,” Johnson added….


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1 posted on 08/08/2025 8:00:22 AM PDT by Words Matter
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To: Words Matter

Where was this Boris, when we needed him?


2 posted on 08/08/2025 8:01:27 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Words Matter

Taiwan is the seat of the legitimate government of China.


3 posted on 08/08/2025 8:03:27 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: dfwgator

Right where was this when he mattered.


4 posted on 08/08/2025 8:08:29 AM PDT by iamgalt
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To: iamgalt

When he was PM.


5 posted on 08/08/2025 8:10:40 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Words Matter

This statement reminds us that there are still many good Brits, despite the fact that their traitorous governments have Sold them out to the IslamoNazi invasion. We wish the good people well! (Where can they go for safety? USA, Canada, Australia all have some very serious IslamoNazi dangers now...)


6 posted on 08/08/2025 8:11:39 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Words Matter ; BobL; JonPreston; Kazan

Looks like BoJo the Clown is trying to stir up another war, with lots more dead people.


7 posted on 08/08/2025 8:15:16 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: faithhopecharity

“(Where can they go for safety? USA, Canada, Australia all have some very serious IslamoNazi dangers now...)”
Arabs better keep in mind our citizens own guns. and we were trained how to use them.


8 posted on 08/08/2025 8:18:35 AM PDT by rellic (No such thing as a moderate Moslem or Democrat )
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To: Words Matter

But probably still not as good a claim to statehood as the Kurds, like them or not.


9 posted on 08/08/2025 8:19:36 AM PDT by jjotto ("...saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob, And I hated Esau...")
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To: Words Matter
Curious story from 2024:

Netanyahu bugged my bathroom, Boris Johnson suggests.

Boris Johnson hints Netanyahu left a listening device in his bathroom during 2017 visit.

10 posted on 08/08/2025 8:56:18 AM PDT by Angelino97
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To: All
Infamous America1st angelino97 always digging up love..
11 posted on 08/08/2025 9:01:48 AM PDT by Words Matter
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The fascist angelino97 won’t cite this old one but will pick and choose:

JD Vance once compared Trump to Hitler. Now...
15 Jul 2024 — Publicly, he called the Republican businessman an “idiot” and said he was “reprehensible.” Privately, he compared him to Adolf Hitler.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/jd-vance-once-compared-trump-hitler-now-they-are-running-mates-2024-07-15/

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I like Vance, BTW


12 posted on 08/08/2025 9:07:31 AM PDT by Freeleesy
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To: Words Matter ; kiryandil

Ukrainian Support for War Collapses - Gallup Poll

69% of Ukrainian citizens want negotiated end to war with Russia

https://t.co/XuLMjLMNp2— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) August 8, 2025


13 posted on 08/08/2025 9:13:32 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: JonPreston

Zelya, the Green Goblin.


14 posted on 08/08/2025 9:23:17 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: rellic

understood

it looks as if you may get that opportunity, too (alas!)


15 posted on 08/08/2025 9:24:19 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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Taiwan is the seat of the legitimate government of China.

Exactly. The Republic of China on Taiwan is what is left of the country that was allied with the US in WWII and founded by Sun Yat Sen. Red China is illegitimate, like a bolshevik version of Vichy France or Quisling's Norway.
16 posted on 08/08/2025 9:40:37 AM PDT by In_Iowa_not_from
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To: Words Matter

Carrie told him to say this?


17 posted on 08/08/2025 10:20:22 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Words Matter

Of course it does because it is a state, a country.

If it’s not a country, the only other possibility is it’s a US holding, a Japanese island surrendered in the San Francisco Peace Treaty in 1951 which the US still retains authority over.


18 posted on 08/08/2025 10:48:39 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: BenLurkin

“ Taiwan is the seat of the legitimate government of China.”

I liked that idea, but it just wasn’t ever true, or if it was it expired with the passage of time.

Taiwan was part of Japan and was surrendered after their defeat in WWII

Really has nothing to do with China except the Chinese government was able to escape there when they lost to the communists.

They became a minority one party dictatorship that ruled over the Taiwanese, who’d left China centuries ago, analogous to Europeans going the US.


19 posted on 08/08/2025 11:02:16 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Words Matter

Taiwan is a country and we should recognize it.


20 posted on 08/08/2025 12:51:09 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Democrat cult.)
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