“But the English and Scots ’settlements’ failed in Ireland. Protestant hopes of eternal support from London eventually proved false. And so, what of Israeli hopes of eternal support from Washington? I still don’t believe in a one-state solution — which the Protestant minority will one day have to accept in Ireland, if they have not, subconsciously, already done so — but colonisation leads only to the graveyard. Walls don’t work. Nor ’superior’ religions. Nor ethnic cleansing. History, which should be studied as eternally as false hopes, is a great punisher.” (01/02/10)