The situation in Northern Ireland fares no better than that of the Middle East.
The situation in Northern Ireland fares no better than that of the Middle East. One local politician observed: "In all my years I have never seen so much bitterness and hatred on both sides." Writer David McKittrick surveyed the bleak political landscape and titled his article "Ulster: Back to Square One." Mr. McKittrick quotes a 16th-century English civil servant: "It is a proverb of old date, that the pride of France, the treason of England, and the war of Ireland, shall never have end. Which proverb, touching the war of Ireland, is like[ly] alway[s] to continue, without God set in men's breasts to find some new remedy that was never found before" (emphasis ours). (Source: The Independent.) The Bible makes clear that this new remedy will be found. The inhabitants of Jerusalem and Northern Ireland will one day lay aside their arms and embrace their former enemies as brothers (Isaiah 2:1-4; Micah 4:1-4).
