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Originally Posted by rafiki
Ya I dunno. The IRA was pro-Nazi. Today Ireland is one of the most pro Hamas countries outside the middle east. Maybe the reality is that's a good model for them? I can't say, I'm not the Ireland expert. I'm the "grateful to the guys who saved the world" expert, I guess.
I live in a country that did send people to beat Hitler. I grew up living beside veterans of D-day (on both sides of my house), just absolute beauties, all of them. Ireland wanted to let the world burn. I'm ok with it. But don't begrudge one of the guys that saved it while you sat on your hands neutral. That's weaksauce, to me.
Btw the 42k Irish who volunteered to fight? All beauties to me. Their families drink free when I'm at the bar.
A) The IRA was a proscribed paramilitary group who didn't represent the Irish government.
B) The IRA had Jewish members
C)Former IRA members trained Ze'ev Jabotinsky and the Irgun in guerilla warfare tactics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert...oe_(politician)
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[Briscoe was also an admirer and friend of Ze'ev Jabotinsky and his campaign of resistance to antisemitism and his efforts to create a Jewish State.[23][24] Between 1939 and 1940, Robert Briscoe worked closely with former British Army Col. John Henry Patterson, the former commanding officer of both the Zion Mule Corps and the Jewish Legion during the First World War.[25] Together, they were involved in covert fund raising for the Irgun in the United States.[26][better source needed] Jabotinsky, while head of Irgun, visited Dublin for secret instruction from Robert Briscoe in the use of guerrilla warfare tactics against the rule of the British Empire over the Mandate of Palestine.[27] During the same period, Briscoe jokingly described himself as the "Chair of Subversive Activity against England
D) You're clueless on history.
Also nobody at that time knew about the Holocaust and the IRA operated under the enemy of my enemy is my friend policy.
Kinda like Israel did when they helped Nazi war criminal and mass butcher Walter Rauff,
post Holocaust (as in less than five goddamn years after the Holocaust,) as he was spying for them on Syria. So by that rationale, Israel must be pro Nazi...
https://www.haaretz.com/2007-03-29/t...f-e6f7ee420000
https://www.haaretz.com/magazine/202...e-773a75190000
...right? Or is that different because reasons?
You have no sense of context.
And as for this bollocks:
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Originally Posted by rafiki
Now I'm a pro nazi as I've legit issues with Churchill? Piss off with that $hite. Wasn't my government who employed mass murdering nazis as spies.
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