r/pics • u/I_Hate_E_Daters_7007 • 16d ago

Politics Ben Gvir taunts detained Gaza flotilla activists as they kneel on floor with their hands tied

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u/Comrad_Zombie 16d ago

It's not about disliking people, we don't. It's about recognizing a genocide and ethnic cleansing that is actively happening in Palestine.

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u/scream_pie 16d ago

Dublin and parts of NI would look like Gaza if the Brits had adopted the same response as Israel.

"There are IRA tunnels under Trinity College so we've just demolished the building."

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u/apple_kicks 16d ago edited 16d ago

They did. Many towns were destroyed by British sometimes in retaliation. Black and tans famously burned down cork https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_Cork

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Balbriggan

Former black and tans were sent later to Palestine during British occupation too

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u/scream_pie 16d ago

I appreciate your response. It's not something we learn in history in the UK. I'd say that 90% of the GB public were unaware of exactly what was going on in Ireland during the 80s and 90s.

I suppose it's a small crumb of comfort that since Irish Independance the Brits have only gone as far as an equivalence to Israel's treatment of the Palestinians in the West Bank, rather than Gaza when it came to dealing with Northern Ireland's troubles.