I don’t know. there’s a lot of mis-reading, mis-representing and straw manning going on. If I’m being generous I think it’s a knee-jerk reaction.
Not true for Northern Ireland, Catholics were very heavily discriminated against and certainly weren’t senior decision makers. One of the justifications for the violence was that it would bring the British to the table, although it actually hardened reaction to them (“we don’t talk to terrorists”).
And yet we do it with Israel.
But that’s not the hard ethical problem I’m trying to look at. The problem isn’t who you support (that one’s easy*), but how you support.
Is violence useful? Is violence necessary? If it is, how much violence do you use? How do you pick the targets? How do you deal with fallout and blowback from it? These are the hard questions.
*I’d like to point out yet again, I do not, and have never, supported the right or far right.
