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

I wish to correct a comment made earlier. Not all of us are in favour of a two-state solution. Some of us believe the two-state solution is a recipe for ethnic cleansing of precisely the sort we have seen and continue to see by the rogue Israeli State. At what point does the international community realise that Israel is a rogue state, that it is involved in ethnic cleansing, that it has no interest in a reasonable settlement with the Palestinians and that it must not just have the products of the Occupied Territories boycotted but should be treated in the same way as apartheid South Africa was and isolated by the international community as a whole? It is not possible to separate what the Israeli military forces are doing in the Occupied Territories from the state itself because the decisions to allow further settlements, military incursions or whatever it may be are being taken in Israel proper. They are being taken in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and the headquarters of the Israeli defence forces. At what point does the world say we will not allow Israel to do this anymore and boycott it until it treats Palestinians as equal citizens?

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