Senior ministers concerned about effects of Occupied Territories Bill.

Well I know (at a v high level) about the holocaust and the Jewish quest for a homeland, how they struggled to set up a state etc, and how there were parallels between their early state and ours, which over time both countries drifted apart.

I don't know what Jewish people or Muslims believe in their books and I couldn't care less. I barely understand the book I'm supposed to believe in, and I wouldn't like anyone to tarnish me or my family and use bloodthirsty passages from the bible that no one cares about, or **** things other people from the west have done, as justification, as is so common here about Muslims.

As for what side I'm on - what do you think I'm on - Hamas? Puh lease go f*CK yourself if you think that. I'm on the same side most of the people who think Ireland are doing the right thing are on - post to follow if I can find it...

Mod - warned for being uncivil

The old one-eyed view of history rears itself again. Irish good and British bad.

Forgetting that the Irish were renowned slavers, raiding the Welsh coast for centuries, and that the British only turned their eyes to Ireland to deal with that uncivilised menace. That is a different view of a part of the history, there is always more than one story, more than one truth when it comes to history.

Similar with your view of Israel bad, Palestine good, even though the Palestinians elected the terrorists of Hamas to be their government and acquiesce in the oppression of women.

Maybe you know all that, and your post was being sarcastic. Maybe you are one of those who think that the history of the Middle East began in 1967 and have never wondered who kicked the Israelis off their land in the first place centuries earlier. Maybe you have swallowed the Irish victimhood mentality in its entirety. Whatever it is, your desire to reduce a complicated situation down to a simple goodies and baddies comparison doesn't work.

The Irish have never stolen land and as far as i know neither have the Palestinians

As far as you know. Hmm. How do you think languages like Syriac or Tamazight (Berber) became oppressed minority languages, while Arabic - the language of the Arabian Peninsula, not Lebanon or Jordan at all - became the only accepted language across most of the ME and NA?

Hint: colonisation and slavery were not limited to the evil “west”. Arabic was imposed on local populations by, eh, colonists.

Moreover many of the Arabs living in Palestine in 1948 had migrated there in the late 19th and early 20th century - precisely because the arrival of large numbers of Jews led to economic development that the neighbouring countries did not experience.

I'd say in much the same way as Irish, Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, Breton, Cree, Cherokee, Navajo, Maori, Quecha, Aymara and many many more languages have become oppressed minority languages. Each case having its own specificities, of course.

While English, French, Spanish, Portuguese have each become the only accepted language in rather large territories outside of their native homeland.

Hint: Colonisation, slavery, and a great many Genocides were generally involved. A good place to start your reading on the matter would be Bartolomé de las Casas who lived in the late 15th and well into the 16th centuries - in other words, right at the beginning of the period of European colonial expansion.

and colonialism and exploration and power and coveting is why we’ve survived and thrived as a species. It’s a part of every humans DNA, not just some humans…

Comments drop like rain from a cloud, with nary a thought for their truthfulness. There are still posters claiming babies in ovens, beheaded babies and so on, 15 months on and still not a shred of truth nor evidence; while there is plenty of evidence of babies in incubators left behind to die.

It really is amazing that these posters are permitted to spread their lies in this way. You would wonder about the fact checking of fake news.

Me and you have something in common Blanche, and it's unbelievably evident.
Neither have us have a clue about the middle east, Islam, Judaism - beyond a basic reading of articles on the internet, but at least I admit it.
You couldn't sum me or my family or friends up by reading an article on the internet about the evils of Ireland or Christians, so why would I ever believe the same sh*te you spew about Muslims or Palestinians?
I am straight up with my ignorance, whereas you and your buddies try to come across as geopolitical experts, label your prejudice as facts, and try to dehumanise people who are getting killed in their tens of thousands.

On any normal day, have a conversation with somebody, and say "the indiscriminate mass murder of innocent civilians by an army is wrong", I'd wager anybody listening would agree, it wouldn't be worth saying would it?

But add in two words to "the indiscriminate mass murder of innocent Muslim civilians by an Israeli army is wrong" and then we get a totally different set of rules and the endless excuses materialize out of thin air.

Not one genocide carried out throughout human history has been justified, so why is this?
Those leading and carrying out this need to be prosecuted in international court for the good of mankind, and harshest pressure put on from all countries (as Ireland is trying to do).