starlite68
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sorry for the incorrect spelling....keyboard playing up...really have to hammer some of the keys! but you get the jest of what im saying.
i read myself purple...but a word to wise, not all in the printed matter can be takn as gospel! in fact most of it can and should be taken with a large grain of salt.
Israel has no right to board the ship and take people to a country where they did not intend to go. If anybody was on a ship and it was boarded by pirates in the dead of night then it is only normal that people would defend themselves from attack..
If a thief/rapist/murderer broke into your house a 4 am in the morning would you defend yourself or would you say help yourself.
The idea that we can superimpose our modern national commonality on history and treat the last 400 years (since the Tudor re-conquest) as if we were France under German occupation is nonsense.
It is not possible to simply say we were an occupied nation and so whatever we did was done under duress.
Policy was always set by the ruling elite so using your logic the British and French bear no historical responsibility for the colonial adventures of their predecessors either.
Yes, when Ireland was rules from the Commons with Irish PM's being elected (in a manner of speaking) by the Irish electorate.Well to take Britain, doesnt the responsibility lay with the Monarchy and later the House of Commons?
Well to take Britain, doesnt the responsibility lay with the Monarchy and later the House of Commons?
Anyway, this debate started due to an assertion that Ireland has no right to criticise others due to our record of past mis-deeds - your case against the Irish people is as yet unproven.
the Dublin ships were bigger and more violent than those originating in scandanvia.
Plus ca change whah??
As regards efforts to link us with Blighty's glorious empire, in the words of Yeats "What can I but enumerate old themes", Aunts uncles and all that.......
6. The Security Council calls upon member states to intensify efforts to provide arrangements and guarantees in Gaza in order to sustain a durable ceasefire and calm, including to prevent illicit trafficking in arms and ammunition and to ensure the sustained reopening of crossing points on the basis of the 2005 Agreement on Movement and Access between the Palestinian Authority; and in this regard, welcomes the Egyptian initative, and other regional and international efforts that are underway.
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It's strange that assaults carried out by Iranian secret service operatives on civilians in Ireland, with Gardai looking on (and in one case getting pushed out of the way), makes such a tiny impact in the media. I would suggest that if the same thing happened when the Israeli Foreign Minister was speaking the hump-clad, sandal-wearing, Guardian reading right-on brigade would have been apoplectic.
Some people are so PC that they will not criticise any country that is not predominantly white just in case they are ever accused of racism or ignoring the colonial legacy. You can be a repressive totalitarian theocratic dictatorship as long as you are not populated by Europeans or their descendants but woe betide any western democracy that steps out of line.
In Ireland we are a little more selective; as long as the a repressive totalitarian theocratic dictatorship is anti American or (even better) anti-Israeli we just love ‘em.