Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 23 September 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade
Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte
2:00 am
Mr. John Whyte:
Again, I am not really a politician, but we have all seen the news where even the protests on the streets in Tel Aviv to free the hostages have not really yielded much sympathy. What we see is that the Israeli public may be uncomfortable with some of the detail but generally support the substance of the war. What we see in the terms of the Knesset votes is that they are overwhelmingly in favour of measures related to the war. It is hard to see hope there at the moment. You never know, of course, because it is a very complex geopolitical dynamic. We have a US President who is keen to win the Nobel Prize. He and his Administration are very keen to pursue the Abraham Accords and to try to promote economic development in the region. You never know what might come out of that.
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