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Source: http://www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2003/07/15/dl1502.xml
An Irishman in Israel
(Telegraph-UK) In Britain, Whitehall sources retort that MI5 gave the Israelis accurate intelligence. There is a long and dishonorable Irish republican tradition of hostility to Jewish national aspirations. Arthur Griffith, the founder of Sinn Fein, was blatantly anti-Semitic; Sean Russell, chief of staff of the IRA during the Second World War, died on a German submarine and was buried at sea wrapped in the swastika.