Michelle O’Neill, the recently elected First Minister of Northern Ireland, said on Thursday that Hamas will eventually be regarded as the future partner for peace in the Middle East in an interview on LBC.
Pivoting from discussions on Irish neutrality Marr asks her “A long time ago the IRA was seen as a terrorist organization, the British Government and everybody else could not ever talk to. Do you think that Hamas, although regarded as a terror organization by many people around the world, is going to eventually have to be a partner for peace?”
“Yes,” says O’Neill, “I think you only have to look at our own example to know how important dialogue is and that’s the only way you’re ever going to bring an end to conflict.”
“If republicans didn’t talk to the British government or the British government didn’t talk to the republicans, in the past in Ireland we would not be in the scenario we are in today, enjoying a peaceful and far more equal society today.”
Gotta love the balls on the Irish
The first person to do it is going to take all the flak. Then 60 years later everyone suddenly sees the nuance in the situation as we do with the ANC in South Africa right now
This is a massive statement that she made and she deserves a lot of respect for it.
If Hamas wants peace they should at least change their Charter and remove all the genocide statements. Until then it’s hard to take them seriously as anything other than a terrorist organization
Like they did in 2017? Wiki link English full text
Find me a single genocide statement in their charter
Michelle O’Neill, the recently elected First Minister of Northern Ireland,
She was elected 2022
She was also the deputy first minister for some time. Which is essentially the same job.
So. When the Northern Ireland Assembly was suspended. I think it’s okay to say recently elected in that case.
