Strung Out Episode 194: WHAT THE IRISH CAN TEACH ISRAELIS AND PALESTINIANS

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The Irish have been a race of people that have known their share of suffering.  Millions died during the An Gorta Mor, The Great Hunger or better known as the Potato Famine.  The uprising of 1916 resulted in the partition of Ireland, a bloody civil war and untold dead.  English politics and the result of having an island next to a world power ended up with Ireland oppressed and made to seem by their rulers, less than human.  That sentiment was brought to the United States and pushed by such people as Thomas Nast, who gave us the wholesome image of Santa Claus, but with the same pen also gave us African-Americans and Irish the shared image of subhuman apes. 
Enter Albert Balfour, who felt his suggestion to partition Ireland could work in other parts of the world.  Thus Palestine, taken by the British after WWI was thought to be partitioned to create "a Jewish Ulster" and so keep the hostile Arabs at bay.   The Jewish state came to fruition with the post WWII creation of Israel in 1948.  The idea of two states, one Israeli and the other Palestinian has been the holy grail of peace lovers ever since.   The recent events in Israel and Palestine, horrific and tragic, only serve to make it plainer to those who have been victims themselves of the utter uselessness that violence and pain will never give either side any satisfaction, let alone peace. 

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