Imagine there's no countries...

You all know where that headline comes from, even if you are of that age where, when singing it for the first time, your brain was so addled by chemical or natural additives that memories of everything else left you there and then.

So imagine me (on the small side, portly, balding, reading glasses, scraggly beard etc) reading a Torygraph article Alex Salmond tells Queen his vision for break-up of Britain and sarcastically smiling all the way through it. Definitely, you will say, here is a man in the midst of a strong attack of Schadenfreude. And you will be right, too.

For about five or six reasons:

1. United Kingdom in general has a very strong supporters base for one-state solution of Israeli-Palestine crisis. According to these supporters, the said solution should serve the world as an example of enlightened elimination of nation-states, borders, nationalism, you name it.
2. Scotland, in particular, sports a most ferocious organization called Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Of course, they are ardent supporters of the above mentioned one-state solution, although when they say "one state" they may mean something completely different from what you and I may imagine...

Well, the other seven or eight reasons are really not important enough for you to bother with on such a nice weekend...

Cross-posted on Yourish.com