“To Ireland or the deserts.” This is one of the options that Amichai Eliyahu, the Israeli minister from the far-right Otzma Yehudit party, was quoted last weekend in The Times of Israel to have put forward for civilians currently living under daily bombardment in the Gaza strip. During an interview with local radio, Eliyahu – now suspended from the coalition cabinet for further comments about dropping a nuclear bomb on Gaza- brought up one of the most abhorred expressions stored in the collective Irish consciousness – “to Hell or Connaught”. Intentional or not to latch onto the famous Cromwellian quip…

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