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I wouldn’t be surprised if they ‘accidentally’ drop a few shells on the Irish UNIFIL positions. Israel is pissed at Ireland for recognizing Palestine.

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The Irish have lost 48 soldiers to the UNIFIL mission on the Blue Line over the decades. Some of the cases are pretty open and shut cases of the IDF firing on them while clearly identified.

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Next week’s news: Biden swears unconditional support in Israels self defense against Ireland. US planning to send warships to assist in Isreals invasion Special Operations™ in Ireland.

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Next after that, Boston and NYC declare independence.

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Uh oh, it’s USS Liberty time

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“I’m so sorry, we just couldn’t stop repeatedly attacking the Irish troops in an area we were informed Irish troops would be flying the Irish flag shouting at us to stop because they’re Irish, we thought they were Arabs”

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Wasn’t there some conspiracy theory that the Irish are the lost tribe of Israel?

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So many groups have ‘lost tribe of Israel’ claims. There must have been hundreds of lost tribes.

I’m more amused by the “Jesus came to England” myths which led to one of the most well-known of British hymns.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_did_those_feet_in_ancient_time

Edit: I should have read that Wikipedia page first. The myth post-dates the poem.

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Next in the news, Israel explains how Ireland is actually Hamas, which is why they had to use white phosphorus on UNIFIL troops

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Well, I didn’t have Israel vs Ireland on my WWIII escalation bingo card.

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“Would you like some cake Father? Oh go ooooooon, it’s got genocide in it. I mean raisins”

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“FECK! ARSE! GIRLS!”

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I get it. Ireland didn’t fight in WWII, so it needs to play catch-up.

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