Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the ambassador for coming before the committee and addressing it. We are all good historians, we have read our history fairly well - some of us better than others, probably - and we remember it. I suggest to Mr. Modai that regardless of who is to blame in the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, it can only end in disaster. Some moments ago he made reference to the possibility that peace might not happen in our generation or in his generation - my generation is a little ahead of his. To defer a solution or an attempted resolution to other generations is a dangerous practice. Does Mr. Modai accept that it could be a dangerous practice? Does he accept that as a result of that postponement we could find ourselves with a major conflict, international in scale, on our hands?