Posted on 06/01/2021 9:27:52 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Ireland has become the first EU country to formally designate Israeli settlement expansion as “annexation” of Palestinian land.
The Irish parliament, the Dáil, said so in a motion passed unanimously on Wednesday (26 May).
“The scale, pace, and strategic nature of Israel’s actions on settlement expansion and the intent behind it have brought us to a point where we need to be honest about what is actually happening on the ground … it is de facto annexation,” Irish foreign minister Simon Coveney also told MPs in a debate on Tuesday prior to voting.
“This is not something that I, or … this house, says lightly. We are the first EU state to do so,” he said.
“But it reflects the huge concern we have about the intent of the actions and, of course, their impact,” he added. […]
“Tonight’s decision … is historic, Ireland is the first country to state that. We need to use that mandate to hold Israel to account for their crimes,” John Brady, an MP from Ireland’s nationalist Sinn Féin party, which tabled the motion, also said on Wednesday.
It “must mark new assertive, consistent confrontation of Israeli crimes against Palestine,” Mary Lou McDonald, another Sinn Féin MP, added.
But the Dáil scrapped an amendment calling for Ireland to expel Israeli diplomats by 87 to 46 votes. …
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Ireland is a disgraceful Nation and Praise God that my ancestors fled that dump a century ago and much longer. We in my family have been here in the USA for a very long time.
I got no time for contemporary Ireland.
Ireland has been Nazi or Nazi influenced for a long time.
It is so sad for Ireland. ( And so incongruous given how many good Irish people we’ve known.)
The bottom line to anyone with an ounce of knowledge of military affairs is that Israel has indefensible borders without the West Bank territory, and to a certain extent the Golan. The Syrians used to snipe Israeli farm tractors with tank gunfire in “peacetime” from the Golan heights. That’s why they didn’t get them back after the war. The West Bank situation should be obvious to anyone who can read a map.
I see.
well, Ireland refused to join with the Allies against the Nazis in WW2
and
Ireland was never deNazified.
It sure needs it now!
>>“Asylum seekers in Greece:119,700”
Jihad by immigration.
The same Prime Minister that planted the seed for the Jewish homeland in Palestine did a lot of damage in occupied Ireland; that has led to some commiserating.
Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland never fought in WW2 either; if Ireland was to fight it would have been a brief war against England it would quickly lose (the northern counties were, and still are, occupied).
In light of what everyone knows about Stalin today, the countries that refused to fight in WW2 don’t seem so bad. We enabled Stalin to kill and enslave millions more after the war. As you see today, the US was never “de-Stalinized”.
Indeed we’ve not been destalinized. Though there was an effort at defeating internal communism in the 1950’s.
That's why Israel needs to make a decree rather than leave their destiny to the winds of public and world leader opinion.
Except the English really did annex Irish land.
There is no annexation of Arab land going on, and never had been.
There are three claimants to the land: Egypt, Israel, and Jordan. All agree this is Israeli land (or at least not theirs).
We are the first EU state to do so,”
You didn’t DO anything. You just mouthed some words. Here are some more from me. Gae fook yerselves.
How does one fight communist terrorists on territory under one’s control at the time? There aren’t always easy answers.
Before 1916, what the Irish wanted was home rule, which is what Northern Ireland has with the Stormont parliament and Scotland has with its own parliament; this is even the form of rule Canada has. The Free State was also that manner of rule.
Why do the Irish, in their cold wet green north sea dwellings, drinking pubs, and golf courses, care about what goes on between Israel and the territories?
Because the EUSSR and Sinn Féin tell them what to think.
JFTR, the island of Britain is between Ireland and the North Sea.
Yes; James Connolly was apparently greatly admired by Lenin.
Morons.
Just shows that when the Leftist seize power no matter what ethnic group they infect it’s the same idiotic hate for free people everywhere.
The US now is not the country I was born into either.
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