Okay, you are right 32 counties, not 33. I am not that much of an Irish patriot, I guess. My great-great-great-great grandfather Demarius Brady came to Georgia in the 1830's and eventually owned a plantation in Lowndes County. Sometime before the Civil War (or the Wah between the States, as that part of the family called it), he returned to Ireland for a year and became a 33rd degree Mason in the Grand Lidge of Dublin, which was meant to mean that he was not just another shanty Catholic Irishman. He hung his masonic apron on the gate to Long Cane Plantation and the Union officer who came a-marching through came in for a nice dinner rather than to burn down the plantation, or so the legand goes.
Somehow the Lowdes County Courthouse was burned down, with all the records, and the next bit of news was that my grandmother was born on land he had bought on speculation in North Texas.
The Catholic Church ratted out numerous Irish patriots throughout history, as well as being as I said, a vast wet blanket on the culture of a creative people who became educated more despite the Holy Mother Church than because of it.
In any event, if I donate money to Sinn Fein, I can be arrested for suporting a terrorist organization. If I donate to AIPAC that's okay. And that is hypocritical. Why should the Jews be given a spare country at the expense of American taxpayers, and the Irish not?
Martyrdom is an integral element of the Jewish religion. The Irish had martyrs too, but all of them were killed by the British (some of my other ancestors, like the Haworths from Yorkshire).
Even if Zionism is a noble idea, why should I be forced to support it with my taxes? I do not have to support an independent Kurdistan, Kashmir or any other place?
If I have to support health care for Americans, I could benefit, since I am American, and I could get sick or injured.
It is unlikely that I will become Jewish.
I hope this makes the difference obvious.
