Mr. Éamonn Meehan:

It is hard to talk about radicalisation in a situation where close to 100 Palestinians are being massacred every day, a third of whom are children. Before the end of the meeting, I can give the committee some updated figures from recent research on the casualties in Gaza. In considering radicalisation and its impact on us, we need to consider that the two-state solution, as I said in my opening statement, is something the international community has talked about for decades, but almost nothing has been done to bring it about.

As a country, as a member of the European Union and as a member of the United Nations, can we please, after this Bill becomes law, play a leadership role in trying to bring about a peace process that, this time, is meaningful and balanced and where, to be blunt about it, the United States does not act as Israel's lawyer and the European Union is not completely supine? We need to do that, in recognition of our own history, as others said earlier. I have often thought, and I have discussed it with Palestinians, that if there could be a reconciliation, Jewish Israelis, I firmly believe, will have no better friends than their Palestinian neighbours. That is the ultimate objective. It is not for us to say what that will look like politically but it is the objective.