David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I welcome our guests and thank them for their presentations. A picture paints a thousand words, and the final slide that was shown certainly showed the reality. On one side, there are heated swimming pools, lush green pasture and 21st century infrastructure, while on the other, it looks like it goes back to the 13th century. The contrast is shocking. There are 680,000 settlers in the West Bank. Are incentives given to people from Israel to move into these areas as settlers? Is the property free? Should the international community be calling for some of these people to move back out? It is quite a lot of people. What would be the implications of that if it were to happen?

Mr. Randles made an interesting point when he mentioned generational implications. It strikes me, when I look at the images of people, including children, on both sides being killed, with all the mayhem that is going on, that the hate being built up for future generations cannot be calculated. The first thing that should happen is we should all call on both sides to cease hostilities immediately, and then we can move on from there. The witnesses might respond on the possible incentives people are given to move there and whether we should be calling on some, if not all, of these people to move out.

The witnesses heard my other question about the generational implications.