Across at Z Word, Eamonn has four comments on Sam Fleischacker's latest Cool Hour post. From Eamonn's first comment:[N]ationalisms give birth to nations as much as they seek to protect existing ones...The rest under this...

Following Sam Fleischacker's Cool Hour series step by step, Eamonn at Z Word responds to the latest instalment:[T]here are thousands of Argentine citizens with at least one Irish grandparent and who are... eligible for Irish citizenship. They are... entitled to move to Ireland anytime they like and take advantage of a full range of civil and political rights... This brings me back to a point I have made before in these commentaries; the history and politics of the Israel-Palestine conflict are less sui generis than they are generally held to...

Eamonn McDonagh has some thoughts on Sam Fleischacker's second instalment in the Cool Hour series. One of them:[N]on-comparative analysis of the Israel-Palestinian conflict is subject to grave limitations when it comes to both examining the past and thinking about the...

At Z Word Eamonn McDonagh responds to the first instalment of Sam Fleischacker's Cool Hour series:I have no doubt that it would be preferable for both sides to see some justice in the other's cause but I don't think it's an absolute prerequisite for peaceful co-existence.The whole...