{"id":11215,"date":"2007-03-15T06:50:27","date_gmt":"2007-03-15T13:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/03\/15\/an-end-to-the-troubles.html"},"modified":"2011-12-30T11:32:10","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T18:32:10","slug":"an_end_to_the_troubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/03\/15\/an_end_to_the_troubles.html","title":{"rendered":"An end to the Troubles?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/comment\/story\/0,,2028046,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">From the Guardian<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This is what will happen today and over the rest of this month. Elections will anoint Ariel Sharon, miraculously resurrected from his coma, as Israel&#8217;s prime minister. They will also establish Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas as his deputy. These two men, mortal enemies for so long, will govern together. The finance ministry will stay in Likud hands, but the education minister will be a veteran of Hamas&#8217;s armed wing, a man who once served several years in jail for his part in a lethal bombing. After decades spent fighting<br \/>\neach other to the death, these two movements will now share power, spending the next year or two arguing about school admissions and local water rates. Their long war is over.<\/p>\n<p><script language=\"javascript\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><![CDATA[\n\n\n\n<div class=\"MPU_display_class\" id=\"spacedesc_mpu_div\">If that sounds like wild, lunatic fantasy, it is - for the Middle East at any rate. But something very much like it is happening before our eyes in Northern Ireland. In Sharon's place is Ian Paisley, the octogenarian embodiment of Unionist intransigence, whose Democratic Unionist party is likely to emerge as the largest single party in today's elections for the Northern Ireland assembly. For Ismail Haniyeh, read Martin McGuinness who will serve as deputy first\nminister. That's right: McGuinness, widely famed as a former IRA commander, will team up with Paisley, who made a reputation denouncing the IRA as bloodthirsty, murdering bastards whose only place was frying in the fires of hell.\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<p>At Paisley's side, as education minister, we may well see Gerry Kelly, a former hunger striker jailed for his part in the IRA bombings of the Old Bailey and Scotland Yard. And yes, one of the big issues before the Paisley administration will be the price of Northern Irish water.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>It would be an odd, but heartening, final note to the past chapter of Northern Ireland conflict.<small>\n<\/small><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/remainder\/07\/03\/12989.html\" target=\"_blank\">kottke<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Guardian: This is what will happen today and over the rest of this month. Elections will anoint Ariel Sharon, miraculously resurrected from his coma, as Israel&#8217;s prime minister&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitical-brouhaha"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11068,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/04\/16\/guardian_angel.html","url_meta":{"origin":11215,"position":0},"title":"Guardian Angel","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 16-Apr-07 3:40pm","format":false,"excerpt":"My sphere is Guardian (Person of great Love and Altruism), and my class is Defender (Peaceful, yet Potent). 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