Gino Kenny (Dublin Mid West, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

While there is a conflict here, it is a David and Goliath conflict and at the heart of it Israel is fundamentally not the liberal state that the EU paints it as.

It is a racist apartheid state, as much as South Africa was back in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. The time for treating Israel as a normal state is over. Israel is a cancer in the Middle East. It is there to confront and humiliate Palestinians. What Donald Trump did last week will start another intifada. Indeed, one has already begun in Palestine.

That is what Trump has done. His statement that Palestinian matters do not matter was incendiary. Even Netanyahu says that Jerusalem is the capital of the Jewish people. What the hell is that? It is like what we saw in apartheid South Africa. Israel is an apartheid state. As long as the EU and the Irish Government treat Israel as some liberal democracy, we will always have Israel as an apartheid state.

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