re: #231 ludwigvanquixote

You know that is one I simply do not get. One would think that the Irish after struggling for so long to regain control of their homeland would be natural allies of the Jews. One would think that anyway.

Following the Israeli incursion into Jenin earlier this year, Paul Collinson, a British explosives expert working with the Red Cross, identified hundreds of explosive devices found there and noted that “the pipe bombs I found in Jenin are exact replicas of ones I found in Northern Ireland.” The Daily Telegraph quoted a U.S. government official as saying in response: “If there was clear and convincing evidence that the IRA has been training Palestinians in bomb-making techniques, then we are facing a grave and grievous situation for the IRA — it would surely lead to a reassessment of whether the IRA should be put on the designated list of terrorist organizations with a global reach.
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Students of terrorism can easily trace the IRA’s connections to the PLO and its numerous factions back to the 1970s and 1980s, when IRA and PLO operatives trained together in Libya and the Bekaa Valley. Today, IRA involvement is ongoing in Colombia, where al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad factions — to name a few — are engaged in illegal arms and drug trafficking and money-laundering. Recent revelations about al Qaeda training methods has been also identified as carrying some of the IRA’s trademarks. If the EU and the Bush administration would unify their terrorist lists with “global reach” to include all terrorist organizations — including the IRA, Hezbollah, all Palestinian terror organizations, and the ELN — we might then have a better chance to win the war on terrorism.
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That’s just for starters. Add in the monolithic anti-Israel stance of the UK media, especially such as al-Guardian and the mighty al-Beeb and it is a better question to ask why anyone in the UK supports Israel. They must be daft or Jews to go against the media, the political elites and the entrenched bureaucracy.