If the West left the Middle East, page-16

But once again, is this caused by religion or is religion the game board upon which deeper primitive sentiments are played out?

There were reasonable relationships forged between the ordinary peoples on both sides until a certain agitation was introduced by the ruling body and a certain act of genocide was committed on them in which one third of the population starved to death, one third emigrated and one third stayed to rebuild Northern Ireland. A million and a half men, women and children were allowed to starve to death while the British grew crops and exported them in great bulk from Northern Ireland.

The Northern Irish are not English and spoke their own language. Prevented from being Irish, dancing while moving their arms, singing their songs, speaking their language, so they then rallied around what made them different and being Catholic was one of those differences.

If I had been Irish I would most certainly have died fighting the British and their despotic Queen Victoria.

Ireland was the most forested country in all of Europe and her trees became the buildings and ships of England so the scourge of England on these people came in on many fronts and was the equal to anything, Stalin, Pol Pot or Idi Amin did.