“I am not a Jew nor an Israeli, though for many years I have defended both Jews and Israelis from the physical and political attacks that are made on them.”
This is the crux of it. (Analogous to: “I’m not black but I have a black friend.”)The rest can be taken at face value as the stereotypical turn the other cheek until your enemy gets tired of slapping you around...which never happens.
He equates the enmity between the brits and the Irish as something that just gradually resolved itself. Fact is, the brits won. They never gave an inch on Ireland, until Ireland capitulated.
He sprinkles pixie dust and magically all is well and love abounds.
Pixie dust.
Who really won - the Romans or the martyrs?