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...citizen of Northern Ireland, I was troubled by the assessment of Irish-American involvement in the peace process in Melinda Kuritzky and Brendan Rivage-Seul’s article “Lessons in Peacemaking” (Mar. 22, 2010). I agree that Northern Ireland can be an example to Israelis and Palestinians, but I also believe it should caution America and its powerful Diaspora groups...
...vital role in the Good Friday Agreement and the affection Irish Americans hold for their patrimony is gratifying. Nonetheless, it is not always healthy or helpful. For 40 years prior to 9/11, the most munificent global funder of terrorism was not Iran or Iraq but the U.S. Irish-American organizations channeled millions of dollars into the Irish Republican Army, extremists responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocents—both Catholic and Protestant—as well as soldiers and police, in the north, south, and the British mainland. Lured by hand-me-down sentiment, Irish Americans...
...calls for a settlement freeze suggest this may change). It is also evident that the Israelis have gotten comfortable with the status quo, and the U.S. and Europe must take measures to change that. The spark to that change can begin with the 42 million members of the Irish-American community. Irish-Americans should unite as they did during the 1990s, this time in opposition to Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian territories, and call on the U.S. government to put more pressure on Israel to freeze settlement expansion and come to the negotiating table. Irish-American community...
...blasting Misericordia University in Dallas, Pa., for inviting an openly gay writer and former Clinton Administration aide to speak. The university, declared Martino, was "seriously failing in maintaining its Catholic identity." Earlier this year, Martino threatened to shutter Scranton's cathedral on St. Patrick's Day if any local Irish-American organizations included pro-choice politicians in their celebrations...
...damage caused by his earlier comments. During the 1980s, Kennedy became a close friend of John Hume, a Nobel Peace laureate and former leader of the nationalist Social Democratic and Labour Party. For Hume, a key part of ending the conflict in Northern Ireland was persuading hard-line Irish-American groups that had donated money to the IRA during the Troubles - the period of sectarian violence that claimed more than 3,600 lives between the '60s and '80s - to support the fledgling peace process. Kennedy soon became the main cheerleader for Hume's cause in Washington...