Dáil debates

Wednesday, 22 February 2017

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions (Resumed)

Middle East Peace Process

3:50 pm

Photo of Paul MurphyPaul Murphy (Dublin South West, Anti-Austerity Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Does the Minister agree that the strategy of the Israeli right, which is clearly in power, is to invent facts? In 1977, 5,000 settlers lived in the West Bank. Now, however, 400,000 settlers live in the West Bank and 200,000 in east Jerusalem. There is an attempt to avoid any prospect of a viable Palestinian state and to undermine that prospect completely. This is now actively supported by the Israeli Government, as reflected in some of the laws it has passed. A one-state solution on the basis of the system of capitalism and imperialism would mean mass expulsions again from the historic Palestine area, a new Nakba and then, in reality, the imposition of an even more undemocratic apartheid construct within that one-state solution. However, this is what is now being driven by the Israeli elite, and Donald Trump has given it the green light with his comments that he can live with either a one-state or two-state solution.

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