Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We often talk about the term "culture wars" and I am not even sure what the term means sometimes, but some of the discourse I have seen online makes it feel like some sort of culture war, that you have to choose sides and you have to be either entirely on one side or on the other. However, we all know the world is more complicated than that. Wrongs have been committed on both sides. This conflict has historic origins. Wrongs were done to the Arab people of Palestine and wrongs were done to the Jews in Europe and the Arab world. Any conflict has an historical context and we all understand that and bear it in mind. Certainly, the position of Ireland, as I said in my earlier response, is to use our influence, to the extent that we have it, and we do have some, in the UN and the EU to call for restraint, de-escalation and respect for basic human rights and decency all round, and to continue to support the humanitarian efforts of agencies, particularly the UN, on the ground.

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