Ian Paisley launches Northern Ireland Friends of Israel

[Mr Crowley]

The Jerusalem Post 18/03/09

The Northern Ireland Friends of Israel marked its launch in Belfast last week with addresses from trade unionists, politicians and community leaders, including veteran unionist Rev. Ian Paisley.

Paisley, "the controversial firebrand preacher turned peacemaker," in NIFI's words, spoke of the similarities between the struggles of Israel and of Northern Ireland against terrorism, prayed for peace in Jerusalem and called for peace in the Middle East akin to the past few years of calm Northern Ireland has enjoyed due to power sharing between his Democratic Unionist Party and the Irish Republican Sinn Fein.

Paisley, who turns 83 on April 6, spoke at Great Hall Stormont on March 12, the seat of the Northern Ireland government, last Thursday. He is a British MP and a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly, and a former Northern Ireland cabinet member.

There has been a upswing in anti-Israel activity in Northern Ireland recently, according to attorney Steven Jaffe, the lead organizer of the launch, who represents Belfast on the Board of Deputies of British Jews.

"Three local authorities passed resolutions boycotting Israel, as did the Irish Congress of Trade Unions," Jaffe said on Wednesday.

Since the 1970s, the IRA has supported the Palestinians, "both regarding themselves as freedom fighters," he said.

Protestant trade unionist Terry McCorran co-organized the event. He is a member of UNISON - The Public Service Union, the second largest trade union in the United Kingdom, with more than 1.3 million members.

McCorran was inspired to help Israel after speaking with an Israeli trade unionist at a trade union's congress at which it was decided to boycott the Jewish state because of the recent military operations in Gaza, Jaffe said.

Ian Paisley launches Northern Ireland Friends of Israel | International | Jerusalem Post


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TheoNazi pariahs and ethnic cleansing apologists uniting to find kinship and common ground. It is quite the reflection of the moral state of both positions that they would find solace in each other.

[Ebeneezer]

Weren't Ulster Loyalists promoting themselves as the lost tribe of Israel prior to becoming Scottish and passing off a Ballymena accent as their ancient language?

[Gadfly]

It is documented that right wing Christian groups in some European countries have collected money to support settlements in the West Bank. There is something very peculiar about this. On the one hand, those involved roundly condemn terrorism and typically support closer monitoring of groups suspected of contributing to terrorism abroad. On the other, they channel funds to support an activity in direct violation of international law.

Is Ian thinking of going down the same road? Has he already? I think we should be told.

Why do right wing Protestant groups identify with Israel? When did this start?

[Mr Crowley]

Weren't Ulster Loyalists promoting themselves as the lost tribe of Israel prior to becoming Scottish and passing off a Ballymena accent as their ancient language?

Yes a lot of this is due to the influence on Loyalism of multi-decade Brit intelligence agent and protected paedophile William McGrath, the Beast of Kincora. The Star Of David is incorporated into many UVF flags which is ironic given that Loyalists are also linked to NeoNazis like Combat18.
Just another example of the moral wasteland that is Loyalism.

[Sensible Head]

Ulster Flag

For giggles, there's a whole history of this 'Ulster Protestants' as the lost tribe nonsense, some great reads out there on the interweb.

I guess people can believe anything, these are the same lads who gave us the orange order. Pffft.

[Gabha Óir]

That reminds me of a letter correspondence that I once followed in the Ballymena Guardian (does a great 'Twelf' supplement) that went on for weeks and weeks between one dude called 'Cogitator' and the other 'Invigilator'. They both agreed that they were descended from the lost tribe of Israel but they were having a proper ding-dong about where the tribe went after Turkey in the eleventh century. Their theories were crazy but highly entertaining in a sort of Big Ender versus the Little Enders type manner.

It got a tad confusing when one of them fell behind and started answering another's previous communication until you didn't know who was answering who and when. I wish I had cut out and kept them because they were priceless. For a while I thought it was the same person winding up what passed for an editorial team at that august publication. Considering that they also published letters along the lines of "Why don't these fenians who want to be Irish go and live in Dublin?" Yours, Drew Frew, Ballykeel 2.

Mind you, they could always twin the 'Holy Lands' Béal Feirste style with Gaza though I wouldn't offend Gaza with such a comparison

[pete2]

That site also has a comprehensive section on UFO's and he says Darth Vader is really the pope (all emphasis his).

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The Vatican

[Truth.ie]

The Axis of Evil.

[Tiernanator]

It is documented that right wing Christian groups in some European countries have collected money to support settlements in the West Bank. There is something very peculiar about this. On the one hand, those involved roundly condemn terrorism and typically support closer monitoring of groups suspected of contributing to terrorism abroad. On the other, they channel funds to support an activity in direct violation of international law.

Is Ian thinking of going down the same road? Has he already? I think we should be told.

Why do right wing Protestant groups identify with Israel? When did this start?

It may have something to do with the fundamentalist Christian belief that the Children of Israel must all be in Israel before the last day and the return of Christ. The rapture as it is commonly known cannot happen if the Jewish people are dispersed hence the support for Israel among Christian fundamentalists.

[Mr Crowley]

Millions have been raised in America from armageddonist Christian muppets who believe that the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem must be rebuilt to usher in the armageddon. There is just the small matter of the Al Aqsa Mosque or Dome of the Rock.
Whodathunkit, the Muslims are actually saving the world from destruction.