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Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/28/irelands-grandstanding-shows-how-provincial-it-is/
Behind Ireland's Grandstanding on Israel
(Telegraph-UK) Michael Murphy - Ireland has joined South Africa in its genocide case against Israel, nailing its hatred of the Jewish state firmly to the doors of The Hague. The Irish public have long been among the most hostile in Europe to Israel. This is because Ireland has for decades viewed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a rerun of its own bloody struggle with Britain. Yet this messy conflict, more than 3,000 miles from its shores, is wholly different from Ireland's fight with Britain. Hamas has made clear in its charter and public utterances it wants to kill not only all the Jews in the Levant, but worldwide. It is unclear how Israel could meet Hamas halfway, or tolerate having such people as sovereign neighbors. Israel has agreed to the formation of a Palestinian state five times since 1937. All of these offers have been rejected. Ireland, on the other hand, took Britain up on the offer of home rule in 1922, deciding wisely that an imperfect state was better than none. The Palestinian leadership have for a century arrived at the opposite conclusion, to the great detriment of their people. The English were sent to Ireland over the centuries as an instrument of English power. Whereas the Jews fled to their ancestral homeland from persecution in Europe - in the aftermath of the pogroms in Russia and the Holocaust - and after yet another wave of pogroms that swept across the Middle East and North Africa after 1948. Ireland, with its genuine compassion for refugees, has a glaring blind spot when it comes to the series of cataclysms which drove Jews to found the State of Israel.