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What did we/you do there?
I don't see the connection. You're not saying that Corbyn or Livingstone's position on Hammas is anything like the left's approach to the IRA in the late 60's are you? The IRA was revived by the Parachute Regiment, not by sympathy from the left.
I think terms like 'set of terrorists' are designed to stop people recognising nuance and variations of position within groups. It's a war-like stance and it just doesn't work.
Fintan-
No, I meant the Para's and mishandling of NI by the government in the early 70s. That created the Provos.
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I don't see the connection. You're not saying that Corbyn or Livingstone's position on Hammas is anything like the left's approach to the IRA in the late 60's are you?>
The connection is the instinctive support from some on the hard left of the side in any conflict they perceive to be the oppressed. There is a pattern, but that does not make Hamas and the IRA are the same. Peace negotiations in Palestine have been aided by those who worked on the NI peace talks, and there are clearly similarities in terms of the ingrained, generation to generation hatred that fuels both conflicts.
Peter_Carter
William.
As I get older I find their position then more reprehensible.
The irony of their being in love with a new set of terrorists in Palestine is obvious.
They being Corbyn, Livingstone et al
The IRA was nearly dead in the late 60s. Just look what we did there....