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

I know the Taoiseach will not be as explicit as I might be about Trump but I am asking the Department of the Taoiseach to be careful not to inadvertently offer any public relations opportunities to Donald Trump between now and November. That is what I am urging because he is a danger to the whole world. Whatever I may think about Biden, this guy is a threat to democracy.

On Palestine, I agree with the call to support the occupied territories Bill and for the recognition of the Palestinian state. I want to point out to the Government, to Sinn Féin and to others that there is a contradiction between saying that we do not interfere with the politics of other states and pinning our colours to the mast of the two-state solution. Palestinians are divided about a two-state and one-state solution. In this country, we completely reject two-state solutions. It is called partition, we reject it and we recognise that partition was a disaster. Why would we support, as a matter of principle, the continued partition of Palestine when there is a very valid argument from many Palestinians that the solution to the conflict in Palestine is to have a single state where one's religion or ethnic background makes no difference and where one is treated equally? That was the historic position of the Palestinians. They conceded that under pressure from the Israelis and since they have done so, the situation has been a disaster. The two-state solution has not worked and is not now even viable but it copper-fastens partition on ethnic and religious grounds. The Taoiseach may agree or disagree with me but we should not fix our mast to the position of two states because it is dangerous. We should look at Lebanon, where there were similar arrangements and it turned out to be a disaster for the whole history of that state. The people of Lebanon are now saying they cannot have these institutionalised sectarian partitions. I put it to the Taoiseach that the same point applies to Palestine.

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