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Israeli troops fire on Unifil positions in south Lebanon region where Irish troops based (www.irishtimes.com)

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I wonder what "Irish American Zionist" Joe Biden thinks of this?

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[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 87 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Israel doesn’t have much love for the Irish given they are pretty sympathetic and outspoken about the Palestinian plight for obvious reasons. What a fucking mess

[-] Saleh@feddit.org 69 points 6 days ago

The colonizing people of the world see themselves in Israel.

The colonized people of the world see themselves in Palestine.

I dont know who said it first, but it rings true every day.

[-] RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 7 points 5 days ago

It's so obvious yet hard to notice. Great observation to whoever said that.

[-] Mirshe@lemmy.world 41 points 6 days ago

Actually it goes back farther.

The IRA was trained, in part, by the PLO.

The early anti-guerilla operations by the British in Palestine, before Israel was a state but when Palestine was fighting Zionists (literally what they called themselves, with a stated goal of just taking over Palestine and getting rid of the native population which includes Palestinian Jews), were just "well the Crown says we can't do this in Ireland but they're not looking here in Palestine."

This includes literally tying Palestinian captives to grilles or loading them onto forward-mounted trailers in a convoy to act as human shields. This includes retributive strikes against guerilla's families and friends.

Ireland has a HELL of a good reason to be close to Palestine, because it literally actually happened to them.

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