Irish Examiner view: Holocaust Memorial Day offers the chance of a reset

Ireland’s relationship with Israel today is largely broken

President Michael D Higgins and his wife Sabina arriving for the Holocaust Memorial Day event at the Mansion House in Dublin. Picture: Brian Lawless/PA 

There’s a brief moment in the 1960 Otto Preminger film Exodus which shows how, in an alternative universe, matters could have been different in the Middle East.

In a courtyard within a military jail in Acre, members of the Haganah, the Zionist paramilitary organisation, are exercising with prisoners from the Irgun, its terrorist offshoot.