The Irish did not use suicide bombs, true, they just used bombs. They did target civilian targets, including pubs. The crux of the argument being, the IRA gave warning before a bomb went off. In general they did not wish to kill, but would do so if their threats were not taken sufficiently serious.

I am fed up of reading about hostilities. I am fed up of watching the UN be incapable of stopping at a traffic let alone capable of stopping military action. Following the Georgie crisis with Russia was bad enough, and no doubt Georgia was not 100% innocent in that, but they still were in a David and Goliath situation and there were no slings/stones.
Israel and Palenstine have issues - agreed. The UN is a waste of space. The USA is riddled with Jews who pressurise politics into doing what's best for Israel. Give them credit, very cunning, but i get so bored of watching Israel get away with military action because AMERICA looks the other way. I also get fed up that anti semitism even comes up in debates as an accusation... just cause you criticise doesn't mean you're antisemitic. In a way, the Middle East has always been fked with by Europe, specifially France and England, and the USA. You can understand their outrage, but you cannot condone suicide bombing designed to do the most damage possible. I was in London for 7/7 and it is days like that you can understand why people want to hit back, but where does it get you? Nowhere. It just gets you more dead lying in the streets. Beg the UN for peacekeepers, if any of them get hurt, then it will be a new ball game. At the minute it's like two squabbling children that have bunked off school.