Once upon a time, Ireland was a huge supporter of Jewish aspirations in the Promised Land. What happened?
As the world scrambled to respond to Israel's deadly May 31 raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla, the first reaction came from an unlikely source: Ireland. On the morning of June 5, the MV Rachel Corrie, which had set sail from the east coast of Ireland in an attempt to breach the Gaza blockade, was intercepted by Israeli forces. The vessel's Irish passengers included Mairead Maguire, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate for her work to bring peace to Northern Ireland.
The ill-tempered diplomatic spat between the Irish and Israeli governments that accompanied the Rachel Corrie's journey to Gaza is just the latest episode in the countries' long history of antagonistic relations. Tensions recently escalated again with the Irish expulsion of an Israeli diplomat amid Irish anger over Israel's alleged use of eight forged Irish passports in the recent murder of a Hamas official in Dubai.
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<p><span><span><span>Ireland under British Occupation - </span></span><span>أيرلندا</span><span><span> </span></span><span>تحت</span><span><span> </span></span><span>الاحتلال</span><span><span> </span></span><span>البريطاني</span></span>
ReplyDelete</p><p><span>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so2AU7_LBNk</span></p>