Margot Shelby 🇬🇧 🇮🇱🇺🇦

[Margot Shelby 🇬🇧 🇮🇱🇺🇦 @NSmithson]

"Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience"

Mark Twain.

[Margot Shelby 🇬🇧 🇮🇱🇺🇦 @NSmithson]

@haivri Im now following you

[Liza Rosen @LizaRosen0000]

Top British attorney Natasha Hausdorff dismantled the Palestinian narrative with cold historical facts.

There was never a sovereign Arab state called “Palestine.” The British Mandate of Palestine was simply British administration over the historic Land of Israel after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.

Jews lived continuously in the land for centuries — including under Ottoman rule, when they formed the majority in Jerusalem. Before 1909, Tel Aviv was empty desert legally purchased by Jews, who built it from nothing. No Arabs were displaced.

After the British handed the mandate to the UN, the Arab world rejected the partition plan and launched a war to destroy the Jewish state. Arab armies and local militias tried to “push the Jews into the sea.” At the same time, Arab countries ethnically cleansed their ancient Jewish communities, forcing nearly a million Jews to flee to Israel.

During the war, Arab leaders ordered local Arabs to evacuate combat zones so their armies could annihilate the Jews. Many of those who left later became permanent “refugees” under Egyptian and Jordanian control.

Israel has never committed genocide — and never will. By defending itself, it prevents another holocaust.

Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Islamic regime of Iran are the real obstacles to peace in the Middle East.

Retweet if you support Israel’s right to exist and defend itself.

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@Kristinartz Teapot

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@saniyafatma1278 Your cat sounds like he is in a lot of pain. You need to take him to a vet ASAP. This behaviour is clearly well out of character. Dont delay please.

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@mic55829 @saniyafatma1278 I had a cat with this too.

[Margot Shelby 🇬🇧 🇮🇱🇺🇦 @NSmithson]

@Number10cat Thats a lovely photo!

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@koshercockney @Jacob_Rees_Mogg @cenkuygur Cenk sounds just like Vicky Pollard "yeah, but no, but yeah!" then trying to distract & talk over...

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@MissLauraMarcus @marksandspencer Haven't bought from them for donkeys years - particularly since they dont have female only fitting rooms.

Bravissimo all the way!

[Margot Shelby 🇬🇧 🇮🇱🇺🇦 @NSmithson]

@elaineac122 @MissLauraMarcus @marksandspencer Bravissimo have been going for years as an example - I dont think you have looked very hard.

Or do you live somewhere particularly out of the way?

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@Jamesjonesik8 A man in a dress.

[Margot Shelby 🇬🇧 🇮🇱🇺🇦 @NSmithson]

@MissLauraMarcus My cousin was in the RAF. She passed out as Top Cadet at Cranwell & got the Sash of Honour - brilliant career...until she married a Squadron Leader (who was Junior to her in Rank) Had to leave. No married women allowed. This must have been mid 70s.

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

The Muslim Brotherhood was founded in Egypt in 1928. Its stated aim has never changed. The establishment of a state governed by sharia law under a caliphate. Islam is the solution is not a slogan. It is a programme. And the countries that know it best have drawn their conclusions.

Egypt banned it. Saudi Arabia banned it. The UAE banned it. Bahrain banned it. Austria banned it. Jordan banned it in April 2025 after uncovering a sabotage plot linked to its members. These are not fringe states acting on prejudice. They are countries with direct experience of what the Brotherhood does when it embeds itself in civil society. They watched it build parallel social structures, challenge state authority, channel electoral pressure toward Islamist ends and provide the ideological conveyor belt that has carried individuals toward violence. They acted. Britain has not.

The 2015 Cameron review found that the Brotherhood's ideology was a possible indicator of extremism. It found that individuals closely associated with the Brotherhood in Britain had supported suicide bombings by Hamas, an organisation that describes itself as the Palestinian chapter of the Muslim Brotherhood and whose military wing has been proscribed in Britain since 2001. It described the Brotherhood as deliberately opaque and habitually secretive, operating with a dual discourse, moderate in public, radical in private. It stopped short of proscription. That report is eleven years old. The Brotherhood has spent eleven years continuing to embed itself in British civil society while the government keeps the matter under close review.

Manchester knows what that embedding looks like. Salman Abedi, who murdered 22 people at the Manchester Arena in 2017, attended Didsbury Mosque, whose leadership had documented links to the International Union of Muslim Scholars, founded by Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader Yusuf al-Qaradawi, who publicly endorsed suicide bombings. The mosque's trustees were linked to charities associated with Hamas. The sectarianism now visible on Manchester's streets, men on horseback charging anti-regime Iranian protesters while police stood back, does not emerge from nowhere. It is cultivated over years in institutions the state has chosen not to examine too closely.

France's interior ministry declassified a report in 2025 estimating that seven percent of France's Muslim places of worship have links to the Brotherhood, affecting around ninety one thousand worshippers. France has approximately five million Muslims and 2,800 mosques. Britain has approximately four million Muslims and an estimated two thousand mosques. Applying the same seven percent figure to Britain's mosque network suggests around 140 mosques with potential Brotherhood links and somewhere between 250,000 and 300,000 people potentially exposed to Brotherhood influence in British places of worship alone. The French government commissioned a report to establish this. The British government has not.

The argument against proscription has always been the same. The Brotherhood has not carried out direct acts of terrorism in Britain. Proscription would stigmatise Muslim communities. Engagement is preferable. A decade of evidence has answered all three. The Brotherhood builds the infrastructure, the ideology and the political pressure that others act upon, while charitable organisations linked to it receive Gift Aid from the British taxpayer.

The strongest opposition to the Muslim Brotherhood comes not from Western governments but from Muslim majority nations. Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Jordan have concluded independently, from direct experience, that the Brotherhood is a destabilising force. Britain standing apart from that consensus has a word. Cowardice.

Proscribe the Muslim Brotherhood. Before the countries that already have are proven right in the worst possible way.

Didsbury Mosque and Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader Yusuf al-Qaradaw

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@Khaledhzakariah Helen Mirren is not Jewish.

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@Eman_8282 Rocky Raccoon

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@MissLauraMarcus And me. What ever happened in this country to "we dont deal with terrorists"?

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@saniyafatma1278 Its beautiful & it looks beautiful on you. I love it.

[Margot Shelby 🇬🇧 🇮🇱🇺🇦 @NSmithson]

@DollyGreyCloud @fem_mb Exactly my point with her. Its not something you can 'agree to disagree on' & agree then not to discuss again.

It matters.

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@kitawny24 @Thepetsonly Thats really nice of you - thank you.