Joe O'Reilly (Fine Gael)
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I begin on the Chair's latter point. He expressed the view of the entire committee. In fact, with respect to our guests, who are welcome and important contributors to the debate, by making remarks that it could be antisemitic, they almost fuel that and create such a scenario. It is regrettable. It is far from antisemitic. I go back to the question, and I ask this specifically of Mr. Shatter or whoever wishes to answer. It is about what we, the ICJ in 2004 and the international court contend to be illegal settlements and the dispersed nature of those settlements, which are expanding recently in the West Bank. One witness said they are legal or quasi-legal. We contend the contrary but the expansion of those settlements and their dispersed nature surely prevent a two-state solution. I would like Mr. Shatter to answer this because he referenced the two-state solution. If you are already putting pockets of settlements through the West Bank and Jerusalem, are you not by definition ending the prospect of a two-state solution?