My family are Sinn Feiners but I think Irish politics is depressing.
The Duggans of Waterford, like their branch of the family who went to that County in the Fifties, are supporters of Sinn Fein, the left leaning Irish republican party who have been berated for its association with the Provos of Ulster. We were involved in the Struggle for Irish independence in the run up to the Irish Civil War and in the politics of the Republic since, but to lots of people if you are Sinn Fein you are terrorists!
I don’t have any sympathy for terrorism in any form, which sickened me when Ireland 🇮🇪 seemed to support Hamas by its opposition to the Zionists in Israel 🇮🇱. Not every Israeli 🇮🇱 is a Zionist just as not every Irish Republican is an advocate of the political style of the Provisional Irish Republican Army.
Extremism comes with pushing ordinary people into corners instead of engaging with them in a reasonable debate conversation that allows all to put their case and opinion to seek compromise. It is what the UN 🇺🇳 did in 1948 with the Arabs, who then didn’t want to engage in any kind of notion about a Jewish homeland, where everyone knows the Jews originated. There is no such place as Palestine 🇵🇸 because the Arabs in the old British mandate did not see the justification for a Jewish homeland, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem had actually supported the German Nazi state and it’s policies of the Final Solution. In most European countries where there had been collaboration there was summary justice meted out but the mandate was not a country so such retribution to collaborators was not sought.
I don’t have any sympathy for terrorism in any form, which sickened me when Ireland 🇮🇪 seemed to support Hamas by its opposition to the Zionists in Israel 🇮🇱. Not every Israeli 🇮🇱 is a Zionist just as not every Irish Republican is an advocate of the political style of the Provisional Irish Republican Army.
Extremism comes with pushing ordinary people into corners instead of engaging with them in a reasonable debate conversation that allows all to put their case and opinion to seek compromise. It is what the UN 🇺🇳 did in 1948 with the Arabs, who then didn’t want to engage in any kind of notion about a Jewish homeland, where everyone knows the Jews originated. There is no such place as Palestine 🇵🇸 because the Arabs in the old British mandate did not see the justification for a Jewish homeland, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem had actually supported the German Nazi state and it’s policies of the Final Solution. In most European countries where there had been collaboration there was summary justice meted out but the mandate was not a country so such retribution to collaborators was not sought.
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