Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

I cannot speculate as to what was the motivation. The attacks in both directions - the terrorist attacks on Israel and the military attacks in the opposite direction - are wrong to the extent that 25 people are dead, many of them civilians. As has been said time out of number, substantive talks to get a settlement are needed. It is disappointing that the Quartet framework has not been progressed to date. Ireland will work actively through the European Union and United Nations to get those talks progressed.

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