Israel are going to start WWIII

There was Jewish settlers there long before the state of Israel was created. They didn't just arrive there out of thin air. If anything the Arabs were the blow ins to the area. The Jewish people were originally exiled from that area after all.

Well they do have previous form for this.

yeah cos it's fun making light of people being massacred.

Unlikely.

So are you under the illusion that the British left after that and that the country is now reunified?

I'm fairly certain that announcing that you want to kill terrorists doesn't count as genocide though.

The death of Nasrallah is a historic moment. By all accounts he was moderate in his leadership of Hezbollah. The dropping of bunker bombs in residential areas in another country, which is not a war with Israel is a true act of terrorism and war crimes. Netanyahu is a modern day Hitler. He is making Israel a pariah state and potentially threatening the existence of the country.

The U.S unwavering backing for Israel is making a mockery of the office of President. The U.S is now a joke in international circles and has arguably lost it's moral authority. I don't hate the people of Israel but I detest the leaders and the IDF with a passion. They are on a par with the Nazi's which is the mother of all ironies.

Israel has lost it's right to exist as a country. Now their must be a new country formed which includes the Palestinian Territories, incorporates Israel and allows both Jews and Arabs to live as equals. Their is simply no other solution now.

Well, maybe (the Irish government seems on no hurry to organise a referendum does it?), but in the meantime, the British are still in charge in Northern Ireland. They even suspended Stormont again recently and were running it directly. But you claimed that if the British were still in Ireland, then Ireland would be kidnapping and killing random English citizens in the manner of October 7th. Which is not the case, right?

Unless you've decided that Northern Ireland is not in Ireland and not entitled to be part of Ireland.

Because otherwise, why shouldn't the IRA use Dublin as a base to start shooting rockets off at Liverpool? Or maybe you think they should? After all, you said you have "every confidence" that they would, if the British were still in Ireland. And they are.

How much support do you think there'd be in Dublin for such a campaign?

Israel is not the equivalent of a fascist state. Right now it IS a fascist state.

But they aren't about to start WWIII. They simply are not important enough to the big powers, or global geopolitics in general. Neither are Iran. Russia won't back Iran because they are unable right now and America is not going to blow up the middle east when it is trying to get the Kingdoms and the Emirates under its ambit.

The big tinderbox for the next generation is the Indian Ocean and South China Sea rim.

So when's the referendum for then? 🙄

Looks to me like the Dublin government really really doesn't want one. And it doesn't seem to a big electoral issue in the south either.

Almost as though people in the south are very happy for the status quo to continue as it is.

so Israel’s solution is kill all the natives

But your claim that the British are gone is wrong, isn't it? Now you're even admitting that it's up to the British when/whether there's a border referendum. After all, they already closed down Stormont before - they can do it again if they want.

So much for your claim that if the British were still in Ireland, the Irish would be kidnapping and killing English civilians. Go on, tell the truth: you weren't really counting Northern Ireland as part of Ireland when you made that stupid comment, were you?

Doesn't matter for the purposes of your claim that they are gone.

They aren 't - and yet nobody is supporting a killing campaign like Oct 7th - not even the dissident groups who think the IRA and the Irish government have sold the armed conflict ideology down the line.

Why do you think that is? Could it be that nobody in Ireland would accept such murderous behaviour from within Ireland, possibly because they know very well that the British would not sit there and take it, and that Ireland would be condemned by the civilised world for allowing it in the first place? Yet they expect Israel to do just that?

All a bit off-topic but you're confusing what actually happened with "the only thing that could have happened".

For instance in 1912, Home Rule for the whole country was about to happen, except for the outbreak of war, and had it not been for the Easter Rising, which was widely seen by the British - and indeed by many Irish: remember that the rebels were spat at in the streets of Dublin as they were brought to Kilmainham Gaol - as a stab in the back while they were busy fighting a war, we would likely have had Home Rule with a united Ireland shortly after the war, and thence full independence - all without the horrors of either the War of Independence and likely the Civil War too could have been avoided. The border would certainly have been avoided - even the Unionists didn't want that.

And if we had had Home Rule and then independence for the whole country, we would not only have had a far better economic situation starting out, but the existence of a significant protestant minority in the population would likely have made the whole place a more open, less priest-ridden country than the republic remained for decades.