Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent)

I agree wholeheartedly with the Tánaiste that strikes on both sides are to be regretted and are wrong. In the past five years, deaths on the Palestinian side outnumbered deaths on the Israeli side by over 100 to one. It is a pretty uneven fight at the moment. I find it odd that the Tánaiste referred to one attack as a terrorist attack and the other as military. People on both sides have been terrorised by the actions taken.

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