[lbo-talk] IRA & ETA?

[Liza Featherstone]

Don't know anything about the IRA and ETA but this reminds me of something
else that's been on my mind...there WAS a lot of financial support for the
IRA coming from the U.S. When I was growing up in Boston, middle-class
housewives would have fundraising parties for the IRA. The whole phenomenon
of comfortable middle-class Americans' considerable financial support for
violence elsewhere is a fascinating one that I would love to explore
further. Indian-Americans in suburban New Jersey are sending tons of $$ to
far-right Hindu nationalists in India. Then there's the cash from many
American Jews supporting the settlements. It seems people feel this
sentimental attachment to nationalism but they don't want to put their own
bodies on the line for it...so they send money, and never have to live in
the hellish war zone that they're paying for!  If people have other
examples, please share.

Liza  


> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 14:48:37 -0500
> To: lbo-talk <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] IRA & ETA?
> 
> Someone just posted this to my Yale class of '75 listserv. Anyone
> know more about this?
> 
>> PS--  Just one sidelight on Spain: ETA was trained & often provided
>> armaments by the IRA. This has been an open secret for decades.
>> Spanish resentment at our recent accusations of appeasement &
>> cowardice has been further enflamed by the fact that the US
>> historically turned a blind eye to financial and material support
>> for the IRA originating from our shores. Such incomprehensible
>> amnesia magnifies the Spanish sense of victimization at the hands of
>> the U.S. gov't.
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