Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 15 July 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade

General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed)

2:00 am

Ms Natasha Hausdorff:

The simple response is that one cannot occupy what is one's own sovereign territory. The example of Russia's occupation of Crimea has already been referenced in the committee sessions on this Bill. That is a direct parallel. If Ukraine were to recover Crimea from Russia in the current war in the same way that Israel recovered East Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria, the West Bank, from Jordan - as Mr. Shatter has just explained, Jordan occupied that territory between 1948 and 1967 - then no one-----

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