Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I want to continue on this theme because I feel fundamentally depressed by what is unfolding internationally. The only internationally supported long-term peace plan for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was and is a viable two-state solution, a viable and internationally recognised state of Israel and a viable and internationally recognised state of Palestine. That is now being made impossible, day by day, by the illegal settlement on Palestinian lands. We really need a strategy to deal with that.

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