This is how I see it
The Republic of Ireland is represented by Jordan, Egypt, Syria etc
Northern Irish Unionists are represented by the Israelis
Northern Irish Nationalists are represented by the Palestinians
And the UK is represented by the United States.
It could be claimed that the last time Irish/Catholics/Nationalists
(lets call them the green team for short hand in future) owned Ulster they
considered themselves Ulstermen and not Irishmen because the concept of a
United Ireland was not of that time. This could be considered similar to your
claim that the Palestinians never had a national identity under the Ottoman Empire.
However let that pass, Ulster once didn't have a protestant majority
(lets call them the orange team), that majority is descended from Scottish settlers who
arrived with English encouragement from the 17C onwards.
They took the best land and they forced the green team to the poor land and into other
parts of Ireland. They remained there because when the rest of Ireland (Republic of Ireland) said fit to tell
the British to leave, the British found it impossible to leave behind those (the orange team) who had been
useful during their rule there, had a vigourous political body in the UK and that by keeping them supplied with cash
could maintain them in their little apartheid state. The green team fought the orange by political and military
means, the Republic of Ireland at times supplied the green team with arms or cash but often scared of the power of nationalism
repressed them even while giving lip service to their cause.
The Israelis arrived in Palestine for the most part in the early 20C and after WWII,
they took the best land by economic but also in large part by force of arms. When WWII ends and the mandate powers (UK France) who had held sway in the Middle East (ME) since after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire carve up the ME to suit them selves creating the Arab states. Due to pitty on the jews after the Holocaust and zionist terrorism Palestine is carved into two states, the better parts going to the Jewish minority. The US supports
the Israelis with cash and arms because of the Jewish lobby and also because of the Cold War.
The Palestinians fought the Israelisby political and military
means, the Arab States at times supplied the Palestinians with arms or cash but often scared of the power of Arab Nationalism
repressed them even while giving lip service to their cause.
I think my linking of the two conflicts fits better.
Your theory also seems to break down on the issue of legitimacy?
Is it just the Biblical justification of the chosen people that gives then the sole rights to the Land of Palestine?
Personally I don't believe in claims for territory that stretch beyond a lifetime,
that is why I feel Israel who took land from the Palestinians in the last 50 years has a moral obligation to seek for and offer
an equitable solution, where as the historical claim (the zionist position) of the Israelis to Palestinian land is paper thin, however they are there and it would be inhuman to remove them, compensation to the Palestinians
>edit to finish sentence I forgot
should come in the form of political settlements and cash.
Terrorist actions by extremists on both sides should be irrelevent to this central issue, however it is those extermists who would be seem to have been left in charge.
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even though I think all of Ireland should be under the same non-Ulster Irish flag, it doesn't mean I support killing innocents
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kill every last one of them... allow them a week to evacuate before launching the attack
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You do advocate ethnic cleansing, and you would kill any who wished to stay and defend their rightful home or was not fast enough