DIVIDE & RULE OF OCCUPIED TERRITORIES PALESTINE & IRELAND

Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis - Brendan Behan

I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence - Brendan Behan

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Divide and Rule

In politics, divide and rule, derives from the Greek :διαίρει καὶ βασίλευε, diaírei kaì basíleue, describing gaining and maintaining power by breaking up concentrations of power into smaller pieces that individually can be managed and have less power than the the strategist. The strategy breaks up existing power structures and prevents smaller power groups from alliances linking up.

The saying divide et impera or divide ut regnes were utilised by the Roman Emperor Caesar and the French Emperor Napoleon. The example of Gabinius exists, splitting the Jewish nation into five conventions, reported by Flavius Josephus in Book I, 169-170 of The Wars of the Jews or De bello Judaico. This is also how the British conquered Ireland initially and still uses political agents, within the Irish republican leadership, who aside from spying, sow suspicion and division, Strabo also reports in Geography, 8.7.3 that theAchaean League was gradually dissolved under the Roman possession of the whole of Macedonia, owing to them not dealing with several states in the same way, but wishing to preserve some and destroy others.

In modern times, Traiano Boccalini cites "divide et impera" in La bilancia politica, 1,136 and 2,225 as a common principle in politics. The use of this technique is meant to empower the sovereign to control subjects, populations, or factions of different interests, who collectively might be able to oppose his rule. Machiavelli identified a similar application in military strategy, advising in Book VI ,of The Art of War (Dell'arte della guerra), that a Captain, should attempt, with every art, to divide the forces of the enemy, either by making him suspicious of his men in whom he trusted, or by giving him cause, that he has to separate his forces, and because of this, become weaker.

The strategy of division and rule has been attributed to sovereigns ranging from Louis XI to the Habsburgs. Edward Coke denounces it in Chapter I of the Fourth Part of the Institutes, reporting that when it was demanded by the Lords and Commons what might be a principal motive for them to have good success in Parliament, it was answered: "Eritis insuperabiles, si fueritis inseparabiles. Explosum est illud diverbium: Divide, & impera, cum radix & vertex imperii in obedientium consensus rata sunt." You would be insuperable if you were inseparable. This proverb, Divide and Rule, has been rejected, since the root and the summit of authority are confirmed by the consent of the subjects. On the other hand, in a minor variation, Sir Francis Bacon wrote the phrase "separa et impera" in a letter to James Iof 15 February 1615. James Madison made this recommendation in a letter to Thomas Jefferson of 24 October 1787, which summarized the thesis of The Federalist #10:"Divide et impera, the reprobated axiom of tyranny, is under certain (some) qualifications, the only policy, by which a republic can be administered on just principles." In Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch by Immanuel Kant (1795), Appendix one, Divide et imperais the third of three political maxims, the others being Fac et excusa :Act now, and make excuses later and Si fecisti, nega : when you commit a crime, deny it.

Elements of this technique involve:

creating or encouraging divisions among the 

subjects to prevent alliances that could challenge the sovereign

aiding and promoting those who are willing to cooperate with the sovereign

fostering distrust and enmity between local rulers

encouraging meaningless expenditures that reduce the capability for political and military spending

Historically, this strategy was used in many different ways by empires seeking to expand their territories.The Occupied Territories of Palestine and Ireland from the former British Empire know all about that. For those who are paying attention we can draw the same lessons of the problem and of the solution from this, primarily, unity and solidarity, despite the many agents of division inserted.

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IRISH AMERICAN PRIEST VISITS MARIAN PRICE


I don’t think anyone has ever made a greater impression on me than Marian Price. 



She and her late sister Dolours are, of course, iconic figures in the Irish freedom 

struggle. 



Indeed, there are probably no two women or men to match their heroism.

And, yet, it was not Marian’s heroic stature that so deeply moved me.


It was, rather, her gentleness, soft-spokeness and loveliness… That despite all the outrageous, vengeful, cruel and vicious treatment by the British-Northern Ireland Government, she remains a dignified, gracious and beautiful human being.



I visited Marian in her prison-hospital in Belfast on Friday, February22, 2013. Along with her attorney and husband, I spent ninety minutes with her.



I had gone back to Ireland for a family funeral. And the first thing Marian did was to express condolences to me.



There she was almost two years in prison, six months gravely ill a prison hospital, just trying to recover from the death of her beloved sister and she the takes time to comfort me !



The British-Northern Ireland Government is criminal in its treatment of Marian. 


Anyone in a position of power in Ireland – North or South – who has turned their back on Marian is criminally irresponsible. 



Shame on them, and shame on former colleagues who have deserted her.
This is on of the most shameless incidents in the sad history of the Irish struggle.



How can one have confidence in a government that treats Marian Price in 
such a vicious way? Is this what we were promised by the peace-process? 


Is this what the political Parties, North and South, are asking Irish-Americans to support? 



Fr McManus

Easter of Arrogant Individual Indifference or Solidarity ?

An Easter of Arrogant Individual Indifference or Solidarity ?

 international | anti-war | opinion/analysis  Sunday April 08, 2012 07:50 by BrianClarkeNUJ - AllVoices 

Gunter Grass's Affinity with Ireland

Gunter Grass published a poem on Wednesday of this week in which he said that Israel's nuclear program and not Iran’s is a threat to world peace. The poem calls for Germany to stop supplying Israel with submarines, and warns against an Israeli strike on Iran. The following is a translation of it;

Put Marian Price Back Thief !

First they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for the Palestinians,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Palestinian.

Then they came for Marian Price,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't Irish or a Woman.

Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me !

The original, "First they came.." is a well known statement attributed to Martin Niemöller about the inactivity of German people during the Nazi rise to power before the second world war. There is some disagreement about the exact wording, when it was created; the content of the quotation and its presentation. However many regard it as an important part of the German World War experience. 

The current adaption of it, relates to the interned Marian Price and a general British assault on civil political freedoms with the suspension of all due process with internment without trial, to the intimately chilling effect of all political protesters in occupied Ireland having all body cavities searched, as a sectarian state looks into virtually every human orifice after you are first stripped searched often violently, after you get arrested even after a demonstration. This is all part of the Irish experience of Britain's arsenal to smash all dissent to its occupation. 

Irish readers know of Gunter Grass's affinity with Ireland but he is best known as a writer of the German experience of Fascism and as the author of The Tin Drum published in 1959 followed in 1961 by Cat and Mouse and in 1963 the Dog Years which together are known as The Danzig Trilogy. All three deal with the rise of Nazism and with his own war experience in the setting of Danzig and the delta of the Vistula River.

Gunter Grass published a poem on Wednesday of this week in which he said that Israel's nuclear program and not Iran’s is a threat to world peace. The poem calls for Germany to stop supplying Israel with submarines, and warns against an Israeli strike on Iran. The following is a translation of it;

What needs to be said
04/04/2012, 12:03
The poem by Günter Grass
Günter Grass, warns in the "Sueddeutsche Zeitung" of a war against Iran. In his poem titled "What must be said" the Nobel literature requests, therefore, Israel should not get a German U-boats more.

"Why I am silent, silent about too long,
what is obvious and in simulations
was practiced, as at the end of survivor
We are footnotes at best.

It is alleged that on the first strike of the subjugated by bullies
organized and directed rejoicing
could wipe out people of Iran,
because in the sphere of construction
a bomb is suspected.
But why do I say to myself,
that other country to call by name,
In the years since - though secret -
a growing nuclear capabilities available
but out of control, because no test
accessible?
The general concealment of this fact,
which my silence has subordinated
I feel as burdensome lie
and is forced, the penalty in view,
when it is ignored;
the verdict of "antisemitism" is familiar.
But now, because in my country,
from the very own crime
who are without comparison,
Time to time will be sought and taken to task,
turn and purely commercial basis, albeit
with nimble lip declared as restitution,
another U-boat to Israel
be delivered to the specialty
in it, everything is devastating warheads
there may be direct, where the existence
a single atomic bomb is unproven,
wants to be but as a fear of evidentiary value,
I say what needs to be said.

But why I kept quiet until now?
As I said, my background,
which is never subject to tilgendem flaw
forbid this as a fact distinct truth
the land of Israel, whom I am connected
and wants to stay, be expected.

Why do I say now only
aged and last ink:
The nuclear-armed Israel at risk
the already fragile world peace?
Because it must be said
what tomorrow might be too late;
also because we - as a German loaded enough -
Suppliers could be a crime
that is predictable, which is why our complicity
none of the usual excuses
would pay off.

And yes, I hold not more,
because I was the hypocrisy of the West
'm tired, also is to be hoped
There may be many free of silence
the cause of the apparent danger
to renounce violence and call on
also insist
that unrestricted and permanent control
of Israel's nuclear potential
and the Iranian nuclear facilities
by an international body
is approved by the governments of both countries.

Only then is all, the Israelis and Palestinians
more, all people working in this
region occupied by the delusion
live close to enemies close
and ultimately to help us."

There is a street in Tehran today called after Bobby Sands, who was treated precisely as a political prisoner the way prisoners of conscience are treated in occupied Ireland today. When I stood at Bobby's funeral more than 30 years ago, as more than a hundred thousand did, an Iranian all the way from Tehran, shook my hand and offered his condolences to the Irish people. 

Marian Price today too, has spent more than 200 days on hunger strike and more than 300 days in solitary confinement, with a lot of pretentious Irish republican careerist politicians and aspiring ones, will again this Easter parade and trample on the wounds of the very brave who sacrificed all, having a vested interest in pretending Nazism in Ireland or internment without trial is not happening.

In our contemporary corporate, banker, fascist, world of crisis capitalism, prior to world war three, it is only by helping each other and in solidarity with sound leadership of real sacrifice, that we can survive the next holocaust and apply the lessons of our experience be it German or Irish.

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