{"id":29426,"date":"2024-02-12T19:12:41","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T19:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/?p=29426"},"modified":"2024-02-12T19:12:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T19:12:41","slug":"sinn-fein-the-ira-and-the-betrayal-of-the-palestinians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/2024\/02\/12\/sinn-fein-the-ira-and-the-betrayal-of-the-palestinians\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinn F\u00e9in, the IRA and the betrayal of the Palestinians"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In this hard hitting article by Georoid O’Loingsigh, first posted by Socialist Democracy (Ireland)<\/a>, he exposes the hypocrisy behind the Sinn Fein leadership, over its stance on Palestine and its kowtowing to Biden’s US imperialism.<\/h6>\n
SINN FEIN, THE IRA AND THE PALESTINIANS<\/h6>\n
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Sinn F\u00e9in’s Declan Kearney with PA ambassador Dr Jilan Wahba Abdalmajid.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Following a peace process in which the armed group, which is not the same as an insurgency, demobilises and surrenders its weapons, we see clearly that what was most important were not the weapons but rather the ideas.\u00a0 There is not a single example in the world where armed group did not surrender its political ideals along with its weapons.\u00a0 The current crisis and the genocide in Gaza give us clear examples of both.<\/p>\n

Firstly, the Palestinian Authority (PA) is a government born of a peace process and a political accord with its former enemies, namely the US and Israel.\u00a0 In the midst of the genocide, the PA hasn\u2019t done much.\u00a0 It has stuck to begging the US to put an end to the genocide by calling its rottweiler to heel.\u00a0 It hasn\u2019t been up to demanding that the Arab countries do something and less still of asking the working class around the world to take action against Zionism, blocking ports, refusing to load shipments to or from Israel.\u00a0 The Houthis in Yemen have done more for the Palestinian cause than all the Arab governments and the PA together.<\/p>\n

In Ireland we can see something similar.\u00a0 Sinn F\u00e9in does not want to support the Palestinians.\u00a0 Once upon a time, the Palestinian cause was seen as a common struggle.\u00a0 The famous murals of Belfast often included images of Palestinians.\u00a0 When Israel started its genocide, Sinn F\u00e9in, a party that had previously proposed the expulsion of the Russian Ambassador opposed the expulsion of the Zionist Ambassador.\u00a0 Pressure from its own base and the huge demonstrations in support of the Palestinians forced it to change its position, though nobody talks much about that anymore.\u00a0 No one is currently bothering the Israeli Ambassador.\u00a0 You can find some videos and articles where Sinn F\u00e9in expresses its solidarity with Palestine, but when it comes to down to it, they don\u2019t want to annoy either the Irish government or imperialism.<\/p>\n

Now Saint Patrick\u2019s Day is almost upon us, a sort of national day in which we embarrass ourselves before the world with \u201ctypical\u201d behaviour taken straight out of Hollywood.\u00a0 Irish politicians usually go, not to their own capital city, but to Washington to bend the knee to the US government and act according to the latest fashionable caricature. It is a shameful event; all they are missing is dressing up as Leprachauns to polish the image more.\u00a0 However, it is an occasion for a lot of business deals, agreements and informal contact between the powerful in Ireland and their masters in Washington.\u00a0 Many Palestinians have asked Sinn F\u00e9in not to attend the event in protest at the genocide in Gaza.(1)<\/p>\n

Sinn F\u00e9in, however, has said that it will go and when they are there, they assure us that they will inform Biden about what is taking place in Gaza,(2)\u00a0 as if he did not know, as if were not jointly morally, intellectually and materially responsible for all that occurs there.\u00a0 Sinn F\u00e9in organized an event in Belfast, supposedly in solidarity with the Palestinians.\u00a0 They invited a representative from the PA, who does not oppose their visit and hooley with Biden.\u00a0 Three Palestinians tried to ask the public to boycott the Saint Patrick\u2019s Day in Washington in protest at the genocide.\u00a0 The security team expelled them.(3)\u00a0 As usually happens the crowd stood up to applaud the representative of the PA and started shouting Free Palestine drowning out the Palestinians.\u00a0 Without any irony leading shinner Seanna Walsh, a former IRA volunteer, shouted at them to leave and that the Palestinians should organize their own event and were not welcome at that event in \u201csolidarity\u201d with Palestine.<\/p>\n

Also, without any sense of irony, a young man who was part of Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s security team wearing a Palestinian t-shirt told them to be on their way.\u00a0 The group pleaded with the public to let them speak, that they were Palestinians, one of them from Gaza.\u00a0 But Sinn F\u00e9in only talks to the powerful and has no time for Palestinians whose story makes them uncomfortable.\u00a0 It is not only their story that does that, one of the Palestinians shouted that there would be no united Ireland without a free Palestine, saying nothing more than that it is the same struggle against the same enemy.\u00a0 But Sinn F\u00e9in abandoned its opposition to imperialism a long time ago.<\/p>\n

It is not the first time Sinn F\u00e9in has bent the knee to the US when dealing with the Arab world.\u00a0 In 2008, Martin McGuinness headed an international delegation to Iraq and urged the Iraqis to put aside their religious differences.\u00a0 He presented the problem as a sectarian conflict and never mentioned Western powers, nor their invasion and destruction of the country.(4)<\/p>\n

Sinn F\u00e9in will go to Washington to get drunk at the party organized by Biden.\u00a0 They won\u2019t say much.\u00a0 Their position in Ireland has been to take everything without any fluster.\u00a0 In the midst of the videos that we see on a daily basis of children howling to the sky over the corpses of their family, Sinn F\u00e9in does not think about shouting at anyone, but rather like old lovers whisper in the ear of Biden. \u201cDon\u2019t worry love, I will protect you from the screams of the ragged, the hungry, the inconsolable wretches in Gaza\u201d.\u00a0 The dead make you uncomfortable, the beer and whiskey help in looking the other way, where no child, tormented by the Dantesque spectacle that Biden and Netanyahu unleashed, cries out.<\/p>\n

Following all the peace processes the armed groups, FMLN, PLO, ANC, IRA amongst others placed themselves on the side of capitalism and made their peace with imperialism.\u00a0 Nothing more clearly shows that than Sinn F\u00e9in prefers a hooley, even some furtive carnal or political romance in the halls of power rather than show their solidarity with the Palestinians.<\/p>\n

They are in love with power, money and the screams from Gaza make them uncomfortable.\u00a0 Better to close the window and not listen to them, thus they expelled the Palestinians from their event in \u201csolidarity\u201d with Palestine.<\/p>\n

Gerry Kelly from Sinn F\u00e9in said that no one criticises them for meeting with the British government.\u00a0 He is right, though it is not the salient point he thinks it is.\u00a0 It is precisely as part of the peace agreement in Ireland that Sinn F\u00e9in accepted that British imperialism played a progressive role in the country.\u00a0 It is there in black and white in the Good Friday Agreement.\u00a0 It is logical that if you surrender to one imperial power, you don\u2019t fight with another one.\u00a0 Sinn F\u00e9in is the establishment, the Palestinians and the Irish working class are the plebians to be ignored.\u00a0 Such are peace processes, they signed them to become faithful lackeys of imperialism.<\/p>\n

Notes<\/strong><\/p>\n

(1) See\u00a0https:\/\/x.com\/AliAbunimah\/status\/1755671448171971008?s=20<\/a><\/p>\n

(2) See\u00a0https:\/\/x.com\/DeclanKearneySF\/status\/1755357873175933039?s=20<\/a><\/p>\n

(3) One of the videos of the expulsion can be seen here\u00a0https:\/\/x.com\/AliAbunimah\/status\/1755563423746724136?s=20<\/a><\/p>\n

(4) Reuters (05\/07\/2008) McGuinness urges Iraq to learn from N.Ireland peace. Khalid al-Ansary\u00a0https:\/\/jp.reuters.com\/article\/uk-iraq-mcguinness-idUKL0546549920080705\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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