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The British problem with the IRA is really not similar to the problem which the entire world has with radical Islamic terrorism.

In the case of the IRA, the terrorists wanted to achieve ownership over their land. The IRA never had a main goal of mass-murdering all Britons. In the case of the Arabs, they want to steal other people's land -- and also to mass-murder all Israeli citizens.

Contrary to Muslim and Leftist propaganda, the Palestinian national dream has never been to gain sovereignty over Gaza and the West Bank. (If they wanted that, they would have accepted the past several peace plans that would have given the Palestinians an independent state.) Instead, the Palestinian national dream is to perpetrate a genocide against the Jewish people. For this reason, Israel is forced to defend itself in ways that were unnecessary in the case of UK/Ireland.

Another major difference between the Irish and the Palestinians is that when the Irish people saw the bombing at Omagh (which was very similar to Muslim terrorist tactics), the people themselves ostracized the IRA. They had a shred of humanity. On the other hand, Muslim society praises its mass-murderers as heroes of the Muslim Jihad. There is widespread support for genocide against Christians, Jews, Hindus, etc. The terrorists are never ostracized by Muslim society. On the contrary, they are worshipped as heroes.

That's why the Irish situation is nothing like what we have in Muslim society.


BTW - I see that you adopted a name pizza4IDF, that's straight from some ads in Jewish publications. Are you involved in sending the IDF food?

The reason I'm asking is that in several threads, you've managed to compare the IDF and Israel in general to fascist and terrorist organizations. That's not a typical position taken by someone looking at the Israeli people as defending themselves against Muslim terrorism. I have nothing against someone who takes a different position, but maybe you should be calling yourself Pita4alQaeda instead?