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On primordial identities: I don't believe in single identities, but there are root identities such as being a Basque, a Catalan, a Kurd, or an Occitan, especially when there is a need to assert such a root identity against a larger, sometimes more smothering polity or culture.
The mainstream Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) recently formed a coalition with extreme separatist parties, prompting Aznar to compare the party's attitude with that of the British and French prime ministers in 1938, who tried, unsuccessfully, to stop Hitler with [territorial] concessions to avoid World War II."
In fact, Breton, Basque, and Portuguese fishermen had been here long before him but kept to themselves the secret of the coastal waters’ teeming cod fisheries.
Spanish newspapers led with a new Basque terrorist murder, El País reporting this side by side with a report from Dublin about the IRA agreeing that its political wing, Sinn Fein, might participate in an Ulster parliamentary assembly.
This is a "very crude comparison," the paper commented: The case of the Basque country, with its advanced political autonomy, has nothing in common with "an open war and 'ethnic cleansing' against 90 percent of a territory."