Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)

We need to do something; words are not enough. The Tánaiste did not indicate whether the Government will follow through on the call by his party colleagues, Deputy Costello and Proinsias De Rossa, MEP, to bring charges against Israel for its involvement in the brutal invasion of Gaza in 2006 and for its attack on the aid flotilla which was, by any standards, an illegal and immoral act of piracy by a rogue state trying to prevent badly needed aid and support from reaching the beleaguered and crucified people of Gaza. Will there be more than words? Will the Government condemn outright, forthrightly and unequivocally, Israel's brutal siege of the people of Gaza and its refusal to recognise free and fair elections? Whatever we may think of who is elected, must we not say that Israel is obliged to recognise the outcome of free and fair elections among the people of Palestine, Gaza or anywhere else?

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