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The difference between Hamas and Israel is more than a little bit like the difference between the IRA and the UK. The IRA was the product of hundreds of years of unjust rule by the British, of their suppression of national and religious feelings that would, in the end, not be suppressed, and finally, of the blind incompetence of the imperial government in the matter of the Potatoe famine. The was the cause of the Irish diaspora that led to. among other things, the abortive Fenian invasion and the deep hatred of Britain among Irish-Americans.
Yet, push come to shove, how did we choose, German militarism and later Nazism or British democracy, in the great wars of the last century? And who do we choose now? Do we go with the Islamists or do we go with the Israelis? The choice was, of course, that all that clear cut as we look back. Pat Buchanan seems odd when he rehearses the arguments of Joe Kennedy, and Lindburg, and the Isolationists --and the CPUSA in 1940. In the end one has go go with the guys feelings, and sorry, I am not with you.
