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Have we Learned our own Lessons? Book Review of John Brewer’s Peace Processes
Northern Ireland’s peace process has been promoted as an international success story. The Republic’s Department of Foreign Affairs has its Conflict Resolution Unit, which aims to disseminate the ‘lessons’ of the Northern Ireland peace process. And some of the prominent players in our peace process have travelled abroad to other troubled spots to share their [...] read our review »
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Review: To Kill a Mockingbird
Somehow I escaped reading this essential school text, with its story of racism in 1930s American South. Living in Northern Ireland, I draw parallels with sectarianism, with its similar bigotry and prejudice. To Kill a Mockingbird was part of a Unite Against Hate campaign event at Parliament Buildings in Northern Ireland, which I’ve written [...] read our review »
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The Creative Class and Northern Ireland
As part of NICVA’s series of masterclasses from its Centre for Economic Empowerment project, there was a morning seminar on the topic of the “creative class” (as popularised by Richard Florida) and its applicability to Northern Ireland. The agenda was to: Explain Richard Florida’s idea of the “creative class” and the link between economic outcomes [...] read our review »
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“Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams paid a brief and meaningless visit to Israel and the Palestinian Authority.”
Gene’s not wrong..
The comments are good. I think Mr Dinner is a shinner.
“In my experience, preconditions can only serve as an excuse for lack of progress in negotiations,” Adams said.
I wonder if that includes the precondition of a commitment to exclusively democratic means as a way of achieving political aspirations?
So what then do the contributors here think is the nature of Hamas, Fatah and the Hezbullah.
These are all movements which seek to destroy Israel. I can take you through their written constitutions and statements of their leaders to show this.
If Jo is reading this. Did you make a comparision to the IRA terrorist war against protestant people in the north of Ireland and to the Jewish struggle for self-determination. I just wonder how you can do that, even if I accept you did it indirectly.
Put it like this Jo. Did the Jewish people have the right to wage the 1948 to 49 war when Israel was attacked by many Arab armies?
HAMAS, ETA, AL-QAIDA, PIRA, LTTE (TAMIL TIGERS), FARC, HIZBALLAH, KHMER ROUGE
Birds of a feather…?
I do not wish to be misunderstood and my above comment may indeed do so.
I believe that the Irish struggle against Britain which ended in the 1916 Rebellion and the ensuing war for independence up until 1921 was very progressive.
The problem lay in the attitude of republicanism towards the Protestant people of the North.
There are those in Ireland who during the recent 1916 Rebellion celebrations were really saying the 1916 Rebellion was not progressive and I want no part of that. It was extremely progressive.
Hamas I see as a real anti-Semitic, and brutal movement as is Hezbullah. But Abbas and Fatah is no different.
The problem as I see it is that the Palestinian issue was skilfully sold in countries like Ireland, using issues such as the Deir Yassin massacre, which was a hoax, a massacre simply did not take place in that village.
Sinn Fein is a very anti-Israel movement. That draws them close to Hamas and Hezbullah. They are not alone in Ireland.