Israel is a powerful country, with one of the world’s most advanced and capable militaries. It is one of the most important allies on earth for the United States, with deep intelligence sharing and technology sharing agreements that give the US an unparalleled advantage in the middle east. It has close ties with the EU, the UK, India, Australia, and even (though strained in recent years) Russia. It has a global diaspora with immense financial power, which is the foot of all those conspiracy theories about “the jews” that are so popular on the extreme left and right of the Irish internet. Though of course, our own Irish diaspora is apparently a source of strength for us, and there’s nothing conspiratorial about that.
The point here is this: Ask the Americans or the Indians or even most Europeans to choose between Ireland and Israel, and they’ll choose Israel every time. We have, for most of our existence, pretended that we can say or do what we like on the international stage because everybody loves us. The truth is that we’ve been able to be liked because we are irrelevant. Nobody has ever had to choose between Ireland and a powerful ally.
In our utter folly, we have now decided to put this country in a position internationally where people who are our natural friends have to take a side: Ireland, or Israel.
The Israelis know who’s going to come out on top there. That’s why they’ve closed the embassy.
We are governed by utter fools.
Go here to read the rest of the story. Many Americans have a sentimental attachment to Ireland. The reality of Ireland, a small nation with sometimes squalid politics, has often diverged from this traditional emerald colored view of the land of saints and scholars. Ireland is a woke Leftist enclave, intensely anti-Catholic, manifesting itself in unpleasant ways, most notably currently in the support of the Irish government of the murderers of Hamas. Time for the Irish to recall these words of Huey Long:
I don’t know much about Hitler. Except that last thing, about the Jews. There has never been a country that put its heel down on the Jews that ever lived afterwards.
Both this story, and that of President Trump winning his judgement against the lies of ABC, give me hope that the days of consequence-free virtue-signaling by smug, dimwitted hacks might be drawing to a close.
When insufferable tools are insulated from the consequences of their mendacity and stupidity, we just get more mendacity and stupidity. Hooray for consequences!
It’s quite distressing that Ireland in the last 40 years has, quite gratuitously, dived into the oobleck. It’s seems there’s no idea too repulsive and stupid for their politicians and chatterati to endorse.
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