Rhasidat Adeleke is Iris, Lee Chin is Irish. David Norris is Irish. Alan Shatter is Irish. A link in another post used an analogy of marbling in the meat. A Nigerian Irish child is an Irish child as much as an Aran Islander. Is Rachel Allen Irish? Does anyone even think like that apart from Aontú supporters?Would Ireland be Ireland without diversity? We would have a solid green flag with no gold and no white and that would not be us at all. It would be some sort of Neo—Nazi gombeen man banana republic, and that’s assuming anyone survived without our migrant health workers.
To understand our present we need to know where we have come from, but it doesn’t mean one person has greater entitlement than another.
Israel is not pursuing a path to peace, it is pursuing on a trajectory that will lead to endless war, preceded by genocide, and succeeded by a resurgence of antisemitism on a massive scale.
What is relevant about Ireland is that there is a roadmap. Not a solution, a just a difficult, challenging long road map.
The key components include elements like cessation of violence, dialogue via intermediaries, demilitarisation, police reform, disarmament, self determination, recognition of dual identity, fair electoral representation, parity of esteem for the language, religion and culture of both traditions, economic supports to divert young men away from extremism, inquests, tribunals, forums enquiries to uncover the truth about miscarriages of justice, wrongful deaths and imprisonment . Constantly occupying land on security grounds and then persecuting the owners when they object and then doing the same again is definitely not on a path to peace and security
The starting point on the map has to be a two state solution and Likud’s plan is to have a single state with top status for the Jewish majority .