the relation was through libya, it's in the middle of ireland and palestine. that country doesn't exist anymore so they're irrelevant.  gaddafi talks about ireland and israel in this interview   bbf7k7f4 interestingly at the end he also asks how a black person can be british, the interviewer and seems confused by his answer, like he believed ireland was anti-racist and britain was racist so it didn't make sense to him.
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