@georgeob1,
Quote:Your knowledge of the history is deficient. The Protestants of Northern Ireland are descendents of Calvinist Scots imported to the country by England in the wake of a nearly successful uprising by the Irish leaders of Ulster. From the British perspective this was a clever way of using one obnoxious minority to help them defeat another. This occurred in the midst of the religious wars of the 16th and 17th centuries, and the Calvinist newcomers to northern Ireland shared a world view similar to that of their brethren among the forebears of the white supremicists of South Africa, another group of similar emigrees whose minds froze at the same moment in European history. They too were very effective in displacing the former occupants of the land from land, property and in many cases their lives. So the analogy with the conflicts arising from the mass immigration of persecuted European Jews is very apt.
Your pendantic response reminds me too much of Setanta.
What the hell does does this have to do with what I wrote?
You haven't proven that the Northern Irish intended to drive all of their Catholic brethern out of the region and certainly not that they sought their extermination.
Your comparison of Northern Irish to Afrikaners is ludicrous.
Clearly you haven't had the opportunity to relate to too many Northern Irish. I assure you that they don't consider themselves Calvinist Scotts.
Regardless of the strategy behind displacing Catholic Irish from Northern Ireland, those who were or might have been displaced had a place to go, the Israeli Jews do not.
