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

There is a huge irony in people who oppose a two-state solution in Ireland supporting it in Palestine. Nobody believes partition is an acceptable solution here, yet somehow we think the ethnic and racist partition of Palestine is a solution. Nobody in Palestine believes that any more. They increasingly recognise that the Oslo Accords were a smokescreen through which Israel would continue the ethnic cleansing and annexation of Palestinian territory. Now, even the UN Human Rights Committee, which I believe the Tánaiste's Department met this week, as did we, is now asking for opinions. It is clearly its view that the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory is now permanent. In other words, it has no intention of dismantling the settlements or coming to a peaceful resolution, which has big legal consequences. Will the Tánaiste give the Palestinians a bit more than tea and sympathy and recognise the reality of what Israel is doing to them?

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