Fergus Finlay: Given our 'innocent bystander' history, Ireland is ready to overcome hardship from Iran war

Trump and Netanyahu just automatically assumed, because the regime in Iran is despotic and odious, that the rest of the world would applaud loudly while they wreaked untold havoc

Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s empire building, it seems, will never be sated, at least not before he has succeeded in dragging Israel through pools of blood and misery. File Picture: Ronen Zvulun/ AP

The entire world has now become an innocent bystander in the Donald Trump/Benjamin Netanyahu war against Iran. Iran and anyone else Netanyahu feels like bombing the hell out of.

In the medium term, they are stoking further generations of people who will hate Israel and the US. In the short term, they are generating a needless and painful energy crisis for their own people and everyone else. For us in Ireland, it promises to be yet another major test of our resilience.