Country That Kept Lights On To Help German Bombers Find London Upset That Israel Objects To Funding Terrorists

Evidence has so far failed to sway the leadership of a country that happily allowed German spies to attempt entry to Britain from its territory.

Dublin, November 17 – An island state to the west of Britain whose government maintained neutrality toward the Third Reich, and whose people facilitated Luftwaffe navigation toward blacked-out British cities by keeping theirs illuminated, voiced its disapproval this week that the Jewish State has designated violent groups that the aforementioned island state bankrolls as terrorist organizations.

Irish government officials and diplomats expressed dismay and skepticism at Israel’s decision to outlaw six Palestinian NGOs linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a murderous group that has claimed responsibility for assassinations, hijackings, bombings, and other violence targeting Jews and Israeli interests. Despite the moral imperative of opposing Nazi Germany, and despite the relative German inability to cause substantial damage to Irish interests, the WWII-era government of the Irish Republic elected not to choose sides in the fight against a genocidal regime, opting instead to hamper British and Allied logistics by refusing to allow its territory to be used in that fight, and, in its longstanding animosity toward Britain, kept the capital and other areas lit up at night to assist German bomber navigators in orienting themselves and thus more accurately reaching cities and facilities in Britain to bombard with explosives.

Israel provided evidence over the last several weeks to governments that provide funding to the six organizations, to the effect that those groups perform human rights works only as a cover for their violent activities. The most salient recent example involved the murder of an Israeli seventeen-year-old by an employee of one of the organizations who also boasted membership in the PFLP. Such evidence has so far failed to sway the leadership of a country that happily allowed German spies to attempt entry to Britain from its territory, and in which popular support for terrorism persists. The Irish Republican Army, and its successor terrorist group the Provisional IRA, long maintained ties to, trained with, and provided support for, Palestinian terrorist groups such as the Palestine Liberation Organization.

Observers note that the direction of Irish sympathies and antipathies could have developed differently. “The Chief Rabbi of the British Mandate of Palestine, and then the State of Israel, was previously the Chief Rabbi of Ireland,” noted historian Sean Murphy. “The first Isaac Herzog could have been a uniting figure in both cultures, especially when both have suffered conquest, displacement, and discrimination – at the hands of the English, as well. But the antisemitic undercurrents of more than a thousand years of Catholicism had to leave some impact.”

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