"the British didn’t decide to say let’s drop a 2,000lb bomb on the Falls Road." Kharim Khan, ICC
it's not the first time the IRA have been mentioned in the context of Israel and Hamas.
but normally it's to illustrate an ability to make peace with your enemies... or how terrorists can renounce violence for a political solution... and become politicians.
Khan has heavyweight experience under his belt, and to be sure, no-ones coming to the current situation with clean hands ... but is Khans' framing of the point a false equivalence...
“There were attempts to kill Margaret Thatcher, Airey Neave was blown up, Lord Mountbatten was blown up, there was the Enniskillen attack, we had kneecappings … But the British didn’t decide to say, ‘Well, on the Falls Road [the heart of Catholic Belfast] there undoubtedly may be some IRA members and Republican sympathisers, so therefore let’s drop a 2,000lb bomb on the Falls Road.’ You can’t do that." Kharim Khan
Britain wasn't facing an enemy whose charter called for its destruction.
the IRA telephoned a warning before any bombings in a nod to civillians and civility.
how would Britain have reacted had the IRA commited a 7/10 ?
just thinkin.