Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal North East, Sinn Fein)

As the Tánaiste knows, in the 1988 agreement the PLO agreed to accept 22% of the entire landmass of what was originally Palestine. Remarkably, we have not moved on and reached a settlement based on that extremely generous agreement. At the time there were approximately 190,000 Jewish settlers in the Occupied Territories, the West Bank in particular. Today there are 500,000. How long will the European Union and the international community allow to continue this defiance of international law, this reprehensible behaviour, of which I understand a recent EU report leaked to the international media is extremely condemnatory? Will the Tánaiste do something more forceful than just raise the issue? Will he let us know what strategy he has at European level to confront Israel on this core issue that is now a major impediment to achieving peace in the region?

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