Thanks for your refesher! Irish history, and the murderous Colonialists part in it, needs to be reiterated wherever possible. Not having a map of where we came from, how can we hope to find a better way in our future?
England were the rabid colonisers of the world. Their greed for domination of other countries I believe is unsurpassed. Their final farewell was being part of the creation of Israel. As in all the other countries, it was a horrific plan to usurp the natives and replace them. It hasn't worked, it can't work way they expected.
Greetings Declan. I unexpectedly ended up studying some of Irish history in a Cultural Memory degree. I'm of Indian descent but British born tragically! In the last year since the Anglo-American Zionist genocide, I've come across Operation Legacy about how the British burnt the records of their countless atrocities in India and Africa. Id you've ever seen The Spiders Web' documentary it's clear that the British empire simply went underground into a financial empire. I really enjoyed your article on why the Irish stand with the Palestinians. They may have killed Sinwar but there will arise many more Bobby Sands will there not. Grace and Peace. A fellow recipient of British brutality.
Love a coloniser trying to 'educate' you on your own history! From what I've seen over 20 years, Irish solidarity with Palestine cuts deep and across class boundaries - ironic of a self-admitted Zionist to lean on 'money' in an attempt to undermine the fact of that solidarity in an argument.
And it's not a big surprise if Irish people in general turned pro-Palestine after 1948, when the settler colony was made formal.
Hmm, you seem to not know a lot about your own history. For many years the Irish identified very strongly with Israel. Pre-Israeli independence, Jews living under the British Mandate were suffering terribly under the jackboot of colonialist oppression. Worse, the British were arming and training local Arabs in preparation of British withdrawal to set off a second genocide against the Jews less than 5 years after the last one, this time orchestrated by British-armed Arabs in Palestine.
At that time the Irish identified very strongly with the anti-occupation Jewish rebels and their tactics towards the British. The former Chief Rabbi of Ireland Rav Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog had been known as "the Sinn Féin Rabbi". He spoke fluent Irish and was a close friend of Eamon de Valera. He was a supporter of both the IRA and the Irgun. In 1936 Herzog left Dublin to become the Chief Rabbi in Palestine and later the first Chief Rabbi of the State of Israel. He son Chaim Herzog who was educated at Wesley College in Dublin (as was my own Da) and went on to become the President of Israel. Chaim Herzog throughout his public life in Israel spoke Hebrew with a distinct Irish lilt. Chaim's son Isaac Herzog is the current President of Israel.
My own family lived blessed lives in Ireland throughout the 20th century. My grandfather was born in Cork in 1903. They were Jews. They were Zionists. They were Irish.
In the 1990s and early 21st century Ireland and Israel continued to enjoy close relations. there are several thousand Israelis now living in Ireland all relocated by various high-tech companies during the Celtic Tiger years. Their money was just as good as everyone else's.
It is only in the past decade that Ireland has become virulently anti-Israel and re-writing history to suggest that it was always so just makes you look like a partisan nudnik.
Thanks for your refesher! Irish history, and the murderous Colonialists part in it, needs to be reiterated wherever possible. Not having a map of where we came from, how can we hope to find a better way in our future?
Thank you for your comment! I agree fully. Look to the past and learn from it.
Can’t wait for Ireland to kneecap Israel.
We love the Irish!!!
England were the rabid colonisers of the world. Their greed for domination of other countries I believe is unsurpassed. Their final farewell was being part of the creation of Israel. As in all the other countries, it was a horrific plan to usurp the natives and replace them. It hasn't worked, it can't work way they expected.
Greetings Declan. I unexpectedly ended up studying some of Irish history in a Cultural Memory degree. I'm of Indian descent but British born tragically! In the last year since the Anglo-American Zionist genocide, I've come across Operation Legacy about how the British burnt the records of their countless atrocities in India and Africa. Id you've ever seen The Spiders Web' documentary it's clear that the British empire simply went underground into a financial empire. I really enjoyed your article on why the Irish stand with the Palestinians. They may have killed Sinwar but there will arise many more Bobby Sands will there not. Grace and Peace. A fellow recipient of British brutality.
Love a coloniser trying to 'educate' you on your own history! From what I've seen over 20 years, Irish solidarity with Palestine cuts deep and across class boundaries - ironic of a self-admitted Zionist to lean on 'money' in an attempt to undermine the fact of that solidarity in an argument.
And it's not a big surprise if Irish people in general turned pro-Palestine after 1948, when the settler colony was made formal.
Hmm, you seem to not know a lot about your own history. For many years the Irish identified very strongly with Israel. Pre-Israeli independence, Jews living under the British Mandate were suffering terribly under the jackboot of colonialist oppression. Worse, the British were arming and training local Arabs in preparation of British withdrawal to set off a second genocide against the Jews less than 5 years after the last one, this time orchestrated by British-armed Arabs in Palestine.
At that time the Irish identified very strongly with the anti-occupation Jewish rebels and their tactics towards the British. The former Chief Rabbi of Ireland Rav Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog had been known as "the Sinn Féin Rabbi". He spoke fluent Irish and was a close friend of Eamon de Valera. He was a supporter of both the IRA and the Irgun. In 1936 Herzog left Dublin to become the Chief Rabbi in Palestine and later the first Chief Rabbi of the State of Israel. He son Chaim Herzog who was educated at Wesley College in Dublin (as was my own Da) and went on to become the President of Israel. Chaim Herzog throughout his public life in Israel spoke Hebrew with a distinct Irish lilt. Chaim's son Isaac Herzog is the current President of Israel.
My own family lived blessed lives in Ireland throughout the 20th century. My grandfather was born in Cork in 1903. They were Jews. They were Zionists. They were Irish.
In the 1990s and early 21st century Ireland and Israel continued to enjoy close relations. there are several thousand Israelis now living in Ireland all relocated by various high-tech companies during the Celtic Tiger years. Their money was just as good as everyone else's.
It is only in the past decade that Ireland has become virulently anti-Israel and re-writing history to suggest that it was always so just makes you look like a partisan nudnik.
Because ireland is full of ignorant morons like you?