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I admittedly underestimated the amount of continuing Irish terrorism then. I would still predict that the amount of continuing Palestinian terrorism after any Ireland-like peace deal would be far greater and at a level that would make decreasing tensions impossible.
Right now it absolutely would be, but remember the Troubles simmered down over years, until by the 90's it was much less intense than in the 70's. So it takes decades to lower those tensions, and for those who had family or friends killed to feel less raw, which fuels the whole merry-go-round.
Weren’t the troubles also a notable increase on previous tensions? My admittedly layman’s understanding is that Catholics in Northern Ireland were treated rather badly but content with essentially peaceful protests between Irish independence and Bloody Sunday, and that the troubles were a move to terrorism which eventually died down and got capped, the remaining terrorists being basically just ethnically-organized gangs like the crips or ms-13 at this point.
Well......it depends from when you are measuring. Broadly the civil rights movement in the 60's "provoked" responses from Loyalist paramilitaries. The RUC siding (usually) with the Loyalists then became targets during riots, which led to them moving into Catholic areas in force (or trying at least). This led to bombings and the like pre- Bloody Sunday. But many of the parades were celebrating the Easter Uprising, some 50 years before. So whether you count 1922 to 1966 as an increase in tensions or just a lull is subjective. There were riots in the 30's and 50's and the IRA only called off its Border Campaign in 1962, it just wasn't very effective.
Various anti-Catholic curfews and internment campaigns inflamed tensions as did the Ballymurphy massacre, then Bloody Sunday. It was certainly worse after that, but I don't think we could classify it as peaceful beforehand.
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