IRA: imagine what could have happened if some crackpot had decided to bomb Ireland?

 

Before partition, there was violence in Ireland and after the 1920 treaty that was supposed to have dealt with the issue of civil war, the IRA Irish Republican Army went on carrying attacks of the British mainland for countless years until a new treaty known as the Good Friday Agreement was signed to deal with grievances.

IRA members could be found anywhere, including any of the remaining parts of the United Kingdom, but this did not lead the British to use a cannon to kill a fly. One wonders what could have happened if Israelis had dealt with many of the early grievances surgically instead of resorting to full military deployments. 

Understandbly, the British did not resort to mass bombinappg raids or mass military operations. The British were much more clever than the Israelis and the issues were sorted out. Israel has been using constant military might without realising that every time they resorted to the use of military might they were seeding the sources of the next attack and this is exactly what Israel is doing right now. Israel is planting the seeds of more and worse violence in the near future. Because the USA - unlike Britain - has been more about brute force than about diplomacy, the USA has constantly exacerbated tensions in every conflict the USA has been involved. Making people hide does not solve any problems. The concept of deterrance is based on the presuption that if people are afraid enough they will no longer use similar methods. Such way of thinking is absolutely misguided. Pent up anger and frustration will lead the region in exactly the opposite direction and away from peace.After decades, the concept of deterrance has proven to be exactly the opposite of what should have been implemented. Because it trusts only might, Israel has spent more than 70 years in a permanent state of emergency and as soon as it lowered its guard what happened was bound to happen.

Deterrence is not the way forward. Deterrence will only make things worse for both Palestinians and Jews. Fear will not be conducive to peace.

Countries that support military operations in Palestine themselves fail to understand that policies of oppression and destruction can only lead to more insecurity and more violence. The same policies of oppression and destruction were applied over and over again in the past and we are still here facing the same dangers.