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Re:UK, Candada and Australia formally recognize Palestinian ... by FridayoLeary on Monday September 22, 2025 @02:53AM (#45329922)
I don't know that you can describe northern island as being a happy success story. The most you can say is it's stable which is a success in its own right.

You're right in drawing parallels between the two. But the ira seem to be far more pragmatic then the palestinians and for all their sins they never deliberately targeted women and children in the way organised palestinian terror does.

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Re:UK, Candada and Australia formally recognize Palestinian ... by hn_throw2025 on Monday September 22, 2025 @04:08AM (#45330443)
The IRA never expected women and children to be near shopping centres?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Manchester_bombing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrington_bombings

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Manchester_bombing

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Re:UK, Candada and Australia formally recognize Palestinian ... by oliwarner on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @08:13AM (#45345897)
No because the IRA generally called in warnings. In both the 90s Manchester bombings there, people had 75-90 minutes to evacuate, they moved ~80,000 people each time and saw no fatalities. The warning for Warrington wasn't as effective.

Terror was the aim, not death.

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Re:UK, Candada and Australia formally recognize Palestinian ... by ablation on Monday September 22, 2025 @03:47AM (#45330290)
> But the ira seem to be far more pragmatic then the palestinians and for all their sins they never deliberately targeted women

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Jean_McConville

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Re:UK, Candada and Australia formally recognize Palestinian ... by OkayPhysicist on Monday September 22, 2025 @06:02PM (#45340132)
The parent was alluding to civilians, not spies.
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Re:UK, Candada and Australia formally recognize Palestinian ... by NomDePlum on Monday September 22, 2025 @05:36PM (#45339802)
Northern Ireland is absolutely a success. Having family that are from there it's utterly unrecognisable to what existed in the 70s and 80s. It's far from perfect but the difference to those on both sides who live there is vast.

Paramilitaries on both sides carried out many actions that killed women and children.

Nowhere near the scale of Hamas, and certainly nothing close to the magnitude of the IDF.

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