"Identify the period of this epic struggle "
Have done so
"Jom."
More insecurity
Enough of this racist, anti-Irish crap - we've taken up far too much space as it is.
Martin McGuinness undoubtedly was part of a terrorist campaign
Terrorism is not a philosophy - it is a tactic resorted to those who feel it necessary to win battles they believe are worthwhile
Moyse Dayan and many Jewish freedom fighters were terrorists, though I doubt if Israel would appreciate them being described as such
Nelson Mandela was a terrorist - today he is remembered worldwide as a great national hero (except that by Thatcherites, of course).
Our history is full of heroes who resorted to extreme measures that could be described as terrorism, in order to bring about justice and freedom
In wartime Europe, the resistance movements in occupied countries, often assisted by British assistance, resorted to terrorist tactics which killed and maimed civilians as well as 'the enemy'.
I've just finished watching SS/GB on television - entertaining fiction, which raises an interesting point.
How far would those opposing Nazism have gone to win back Britain from the Reich?
C J Sansom's ' Dominion raises the same point.
There can be little argument, not even from this pair of jingoists, that partition brought about misery, suffering and hardship and when protests against that situation were greeted with brutality and violence, the Republicans resorted to terrorist tactics.
Personally I am a 'sort of' pacifist - I abhor the taking of human life as an unnatural act, yet I have never been presented with the situation of having to contemplate it.
My father was a pacisfist 'sort of' who went off to Spain to kill Spaniards because he believed that in doing so, it might stop the rise of fascism in Europe.
Terrorism is often a movable feast of a term applied as a matter of convenience to people who quite often are metamorphosed into Nation Heroes by history
Perhaps we might discuss this rather than the racist garbage from this pair which has long sickened me.
My neighbours who commemorated Easter week last year were not celebrating mass murder and it is sick racism to suggest that they were
Finished with this pair of Blimps
Jim Carroll