Person: Theodor Herzl

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Book review: Zionism and Our Separate Ways

The foundation of the Jewish state was full of empty promises that would be impossible to keep — the endgame is likely to be a civil war or ethnic cleansing, or a non-democratic state writes JP O’Malley.

Sat, 10 Sep, 2016

Livingstone may not be everyone’s pin-up boy but he does know his history

Ken Livingstone may not be everyone’s pin-up boy but he does know his history. Shortly after Hitler gained power the Zionist leader, David ben-Gurion, felt the Nazis’ take-over could become ‘a fertile force’ for Zionism.

Sat, 30 Apr, 2016

Critics missing point on Israel and antisemiticism

No, the anti-Israeli position is not disguised anti-semitism. It cannot be repeated often enough that this canard repeated endlessly by Irish commentators from Gerard Howlin (Opinion, September 3) to UCC historian Kevin McCarthy is complete nonsense. It represents intellectual laziness of a noxious kind propagated by men with exceptional literary ability and all the worse for that.

Wed, 10 Sep, 2014

Brutalising the Palestinians has been the Israeli plan for decades

Re the upsurge of brutal Israeli violence towards the Palestinians, it is remarkable how so many commentators and writers of letters in your paper seem unaware of the historical context.

Fri, 08 Aug, 2014

Pope continues bold gestures on Mideast trip

Pope Francis navigated the minefield of the Israeli- Palestinian conflict yesterday and humbly bowed to kiss the hands of Holocaust survivors on the last day of a Mideast trip laden with bold personal gestures.

Tue, 27 May, 2014