{"id":9528,"date":"2024-02-12T18:50:53","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T13:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/12\/northern-irelands-first-minister-says-hamas-will-be-potential-future-partner-for-peace\/"},"modified":"2024-02-12T18:50:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T13:20:53","slug":"northern-irelands-first-minister-says-hamas-will-be-potential-future-partner-for-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/12\/northern-irelands-first-minister-says-hamas-will-be-potential-future-partner-for-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland&#8217;s First Minister Says Hamas Will Be Potential &#8216;Future Partner for Peace&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_82\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>Recently elected First Minister\u00a0of Northern Ireland, Michelle O\u2019Neill, said last week that the terrorist organization, Hamas, would eventually be regarded as the \u201cfuture partner for peace\u201d in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>During a recent interview on Tonight with Andrew Marr, O\u2019Neill compared the ongoing Israel-Hamas war to continuous peace talks within Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA long time ago the [Irish Republican Army] IRA was seen as a terrorist organization. The British Government and everybody else could not ever talk to them,\u201d Marr said. \u201cDo you think that Hamas, although regarded as a terror organization by many people around the world, is going to eventually have to be a partner for peace?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes,\u201d O\u2019Neill said, \u201cI think you only have to look at our own example to know how important dialogue is and that\u2019s the only way you\u2019re ever going to bring an end to conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf republicans didn\u2019t talk to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/world\/world-regions\/united-kingdom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the British government<\/a>\u00a0or the British government didn\u2019t talk to the republicans, in the past in Ireland we would not be in the scenario we are in today, enjoying a peaceful and far more equal society today,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<p>The minister argued that Israel was bombarding the Palestinian people and not defending themselves against the Hamas terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnybody can stretch Israel\u2019s position of being one of defense because this is bombardment, day after day, slaughter of the Palestinian people,\u201d O\u2019Neill said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/americanfaith.com\/northern-irelands-first-minister-says-hamas-will-be-potential-future-partner-for-peace\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently elected First Minister\u00a0of Northern Ireland, Michelle O\u2019Neill, said last week that the terrorist organization, Hamas, would eventually be regarded as the \u201cfuture partner for peace\u201d in the Middle East. During a recent interview on Tonight with Andrew Marr, O\u2019Neill compared the ongoing Israel-Hamas war to continuous peace talks within Northern Ireland. \u201cA long time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[]},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}