The Israeli-Irish Troubles: History


	The Israeli-Irish Troubles: History

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3-14-2008 6:18 PM

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Just one renegade, Shatter. He is an outspoken apologist for Israeli reprisals in the Gaza Strip (RTÉ Radio 1, Morning Ireland 20090306

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<H1 class="articleHead">The Israeli-<B>Irish</B> troubles</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:lh3J-qgizWMJ:www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite%3Fpagename%3DJPost%252FJPArticle%252FShowFull%26cid%3D1154526020106+%22Alan+Shatter%22+israel+irish&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=8&gl=ie&lr=lang_en&client=firefox-a">If one were to throw a sack of flour over the <B>Irish</B> parliament, it is unlikely that anybody pro-Israeli would get white," says Rory Miller. "Among the 120 members of the D il - the <B>Irish</B> parliament's lower house - and the 100 members of the Senate, not one name springs to mind as a regular defender of <B>Israel</B>. There are either those who do not care or pro-Palestinians."</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:lh3J-qgizWMJ:www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite%3Fpagename%3DJPost%252FJPArticle%252FShowFull%26cid%3D1154526020106+%22Alan+Shatter%22+israel+irish&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=8&gl=ie&lr=lang_en&client=firefox-a">More surprisingly, he says, throughout the 1980s successive <B>Irish</B> governments were prepared to overlook PLO terrorism that directly attacked <B>Irish</B> troops serving in Lebanon with the UN</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:lh3J-qgizWMJ:www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite%3Fpagename%3DJPost%252FJPArticle%252FShowFull%26cid%3D1154526020106+%22Alan+Shatter%22+israel+irish&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=8&gl=ie&lr=lang_en&client=firefox-a">In February 1980, Ireland became the first EEC</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:lh3J-qgizWMJ:www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite%3Fpagename%3DJPost%252FJPArticle%252FShowFull%26cid%3D1154526020106+%22Alan+Shatter%22+israel+irish&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=8&gl=ie&lr=lang_en&client=firefox-a">member to call publicly for the inclusion of the PLO in the political process at a time when Yasser Arafat's group not only refused to recognize Israel's right to exist, but was engaged in a relentless campaign of terror against Israeli and Jewish targets across the globe</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alan_Shatter&oldid=196259477" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alan_Shatter&oldid=196259477" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alan_Shatter&oldid=196259477">Alan Shatter</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alan_Shatter&oldid=196259477">an outspoken apologist for Israeli reprisals in the Gaza Strip (RTÉ</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/BAA06465-EF34-49F9-A866-016C8A9DC64E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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