The resumption of face-to-face negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians brings to mind that, in a different context, it took Michael Collins, an Irishman with English blood on his hands, to forge a deal with Britain to give Ireland its independence.
The cost for Irish sovereignty, as negotiated by Collins, was Britain’s retention of six counties in the north, a gruesome civil war in Ireland launched by those for whom such a concession was treasonous, and an assassin’s bullet for Collins. Even today, Collins remains a controversial figure in Ireland.
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