Mistakes in dealing with terrorism in Northern Ireland are being repeated elsewhere, argues Prof Richard English in a new book
Prof Richard English of Queen's University Belfast has studied terrorism on his doorstep in Northern Ireland and in the wider world, from Afghanistan to the Middle East, for many years. Photograph: Andrew Towe/Parkway Photography Ltd
“There has to be an honesty about how many lives were saved and whether the lesser evil was chosen, or the greater evil,” he says, though intelligence gathering “saved a lot of lives. The legacy legislation, uniquely opposed by every Northern Irish political party, has won “virtually no consent” despite London’s arguments that it is needed to protect ageing soldiers.
However, the underlying problems between Israelis and Palestinians today must be probed once the current crisis is over, including the prospect of “a two-, or even possibly three-state solution”.
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