Comments on: Yet More Irish Analogies http://blog.z-word.com/2008/11/yet-more-irish-analogies/ Commentary about Zionism, anti-Zionism, antisemitism and the conflict in the Middle East Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:14:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5-RC1.1 By: Eamonn McDonagh http://blog.z-word.com/2008/11/yet-more-irish-analogies/#comment-2072 Eamonn McDonagh Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:27:31 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=515#comment-2072 Thanks. Thanks.

]]> By: Terry Glavin http://blog.z-word.com/2008/11/yet-more-irish-analogies/#comment-2071 Terry Glavin Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:55:38 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=515#comment-2071 I'm very happy to see this point made so well here, Eamonn, and your previous assessment of the absurdity of an Irish analogy was terrific. The most damning indictment of the strained comparison, I think, comes in your point that Irish republicanism, for all its sins and sordid corners, was and is an expression of enlightenment ideas about national emancipation (and I would add anti-imperialism). Sensible or not, right or wrong, its demands were and are recognizable and comprehensible from the perspective of universal values and international norms. The same can be found among the Palestinian leadership, but Hamas, as you you point out, is another story altogether, and as you also point out, the republican movement never demanded the Britain and the British people be wiped from the face of the earth. "It’s kind of hard to imagine any of the leadership of Hamas visiting the grave of any Jew for any purpose whatsoever." Aye and aye. Cheers, TG I’m very happy to see this point made so well here, Eamonn, and your previous assessment of the absurdity of an Irish analogy was terrific. The most damning indictment of the strained comparison, I think, comes in your point that Irish republicanism, for all its sins and sordid corners, was and is an expression of enlightenment ideas about national emancipation (and I would add anti-imperialism). Sensible or not, right or wrong, its demands were and are recognizable and comprehensible from the perspective of universal values and international norms. The same can be found among the Palestinian leadership, but Hamas, as you you point out, is another story altogether, and as you also point out, the republican movement never demanded the Britain and the British people be wiped from the face of the earth.

“It’s kind of hard to imagine any of the leadership of Hamas visiting the grave of any Jew for any purpose whatsoever.”

Aye and aye.

Cheers,

TG

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