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This book examines the history of “the Troubles” in Northern Ireland in the 1970s-1990s and compares it with the situation in the Gaza Strip. The book takes as its cue the tragic events in Gaza in July 2014, when Israel launched Operation Protective
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Andrew Fitz-Gibbon
Talking to Terrorists, Non-Violence, and Counter-Terrorism
Andrew Fitz-Gibbon
Talking to Terrorists, Non-Violence, and Counter-Terrorism Lessons for Gaza from Northern Ireland
Andrew Fitz-Gibbon State University of New York Cortland NY, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-33836-1 ISBN 978-3-319-33837-8 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-33837-8
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PREFACE
Operation Protective Edge (OPE), which lasted for 51 days in summer 2014, was the third Israeli military operation in Gaza in six years. The human impact was extensive: 2132 Palestinians killed, 70 % of whom were civilians, including at least 501 children. Over 11,100 Palestinians were injured. Seventy-one Israelis were killed, five of whom were civilians, including one child. Sixty-nine Israelis were injured. Damage to the infrastructure of Gaza was massive: 12,400 housing units were destroyed with reconstruction costs estimated at $1.82bn. In April 2015, 17,500 families were still homeless. Fourteen health facilities, eight schools, and three universities and colleges were destroyed. Thirty percent of agricultural land was damaged.3 * On September 12, 2014, Ian Richard Kyle Paisley, Baron Bannside died. He had been active in politics in Northern Ireland for over 40 years. Paisley, known for most of his career as the Reverend Ian Paisley, firebrand preacher, hater of Roman Catholics and homosexuals, was a controversial figure—“politically insatiable and highly divisive.”4 He spearheaded the Protestant retrenchment against a United Irish Republic, and was for a time the leader of a large body of Protestant paramilitaries. He famously shouted, “Never, never, never, never!” out
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