I've decided to take up MP George Galloway's rallying call to political action:
"Just Say Naw." Not, I hasten to add, in line with the said title of his speaking tour and campaign for a No vote in the Scottish referendum.
Instead, I've decided to take up Mr Galloway's mantra with respect to another of his causes celebres, the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
While world news over the last few weeks has focused on Crimea-Ukraine, just off the news radar it was business as usual in the interminable Israeli-Palestinian struggle. None of it, of course, appears to have been worthy of headline-grabbing or global condemnation.
However, regular watchers of the Israeli-Palestinian issue might be familiar with the recent case of an elderly Palestinian woman - 90 years old - kicked out from her home by Jewish settlers (see it here - https://t.co/WUu5pIgndr).
Then there is the latest Israeli court ruling that Jewish settlers are the lawful owners of a long-disputed building in the heart of the occupied West Bank city of Hebron.
Add to this the recent purchasing of a "significant portion" of a building at the heart of the commercial district of Arab East Jerusalem by Ateret Cohanim, a religious Zionist organisation, and the rate of Israel's settlement expansion is obviously as unrelenting as ever.
Fortunately, not all Israelis agree with such things. This week too there was a report in the daily newspaper, Haaretz, that 58 young Israelis had sent a letter to PM Benjamin Netanyahu saying their "opposition to the occupation of the Palestinian territories by the army", was the reason they had decided to become conscientious objectors to military service.
Not for some years has there been such an organised move to refuse military service in Israel.
In the meantime, Israel's apparent immunity from any punitive international measures regarding its illegal settlement programme was wryly set in the context of current world affairs by Palestinian rights advocate Ali Abunimah.
Russia, Mr Abunimah noted, could have avoided recently imposed sanctions if it had changed its own name to "Israel" and changed Crimea's to "Judea and Samaria".
Which brings me back to Mr Galloway's "Just Say Naw" mantra. Close as the question of Scottish independence is to my heart, so too is the injustice inflicted on the Palestinian people.
To its credit Scotland has a fine track record in identifying with the Palestinians plight, an affinity that perhaps in part stems from two small nations coming to terms with the challenge of self-determination.
Yes, it's good that Scotland says naw to Israel's treatment of the Palestinians. If this makes me an internationalist then I am proud to be dubbed so. But I would be even more proud of a foreign policy ethically driven that helped hold Israel to account rather than one replete with double standards, as has been the case so often in the past with UK policy on Israeli settlements and Palestinian rights. For this reason, among others, I will be saying Aye to Scottish independence and a continued Naw to Israel's flagrant abuse of Palestinian rights.
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