Gaza blockade - Aggression will not end this insanity

EVEN at the very darkest moments of the recent troubles in this country, even at the darkest moments in South Africa’s long struggle to end apartheid, there were voices urging moderation and compromise.

They might have been small voices at first, struggling to be heard over the carnage that inevitably follows social injustice imposed at the point of a gun. But, thankfully, in the end those brave voices prevailed and we now live in a peaceful, secure country.

Imagine if, after an especially awful IRA atrocity carried out in our name, but without our mandate, the British government decided to impose sanctions of the mildest kind on the Irish.