In the last day, Ali Abunimah on the Laura Flanders show, Stephen Hawking on Al-Jazeera, and Dan Levy on World Focus have all made the same analogy for talking to Hamas: the Brits and George Mitchell talked to the IRA (and Sinn Fein, too, Abunimah and Levy said). This is an important point, independently stated by three fine minds. Hark the herald angels sing. (I see there's already pushback on this point, with of course an Israeli connection.) Oh and Gerry Adams: Israel and others have to talk to Hamas.
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Sure, talk.
oh thanks. Ladies and gentlemen, the chief rabbi (if you're israeli) or the spiritual leader (if you're iranian) of Monoweiss has now endorsed talking to Hamas.
I wish convincing hilary and olmert was as easy as convincing you.
Both the USA and Israel talked to the PLO indirectly when the PLO
was classified as a terrorist organization. They used other countries
open to Arafat as conduits.
Did the IRA ever say that the British or English were the descendants of pigs and apes?
Michael W,
Did English said that IRA are animals?
Yes, frequently.
What this has to do with anything?
It is just tired hasbara talking point.
Next you should bring sharia law.
Eva's right, even though at the time Irish helped significantly win many English wars, and were the best literary expressionists in the English language.
I hadn't realized until I went to Ireland to visit relatives (in the border area of Cavan, which was big IRA country in fact)… that the citizens of the Republic viewed the IRA as an embarrassing killing machine for much of the mid to late 20th century.
The minute they went after civilians, the Irish wrote them off…
Too bad for humanity the Israelis don't do the same thing. The Irish are far superior to the Jews in terms of honesty and integrity. That's the take from the respective records.