Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
Right. So he was a terrorist sympathiser, but isn't anymore? So he must have specifically condemned the IRA's actions subsequently, then, right? Oh, hang on... he hasn't, has he? In fact, he's repeatedly failed to do so when asked.
He said: "‘I condemn all the bombing by both the loyalists and the IRA" on TV a couple of weeks ago.

BO'N covers this subject in some detail.
http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite...4#.WTfpiTe1tQA

And here is an ex-British soldier who served in Belfast & Londonderry in 1972.
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a.../#.WTfsJDe1u70


Also, he has repeatedly palled up with Hamas, calling them 'friends' and asking that they be removed from the UK's list of proscribed organisations. Hamas, lest we forget, is an avowedly anti-semitic organisation whose members have repeatedly called for a Jewish genocide.

I'd call that terrorist sympathising.
While he regrets that choice of words to describe Hamas, I don't agree with his position on Israel and will not seek to defend his opinions on that.