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

The Taoiseach can google the video on this. A number of years ago, Joseph Biden said that if Israel did not exist, the United States would have to invent it. He went on to explain what he meant by saying that the United States would have to station tens of thousands of US troops in the Middle East. Why did he say that? It gives us a little glimpse into why he has gone to Israel today to offer unconditional, uncritical support to a regime that in the past few days publicly declared and then carried out an intent to ethnically cleanse 1 million Palestinians and impose brutal, savage, murderous collective punishment on the entire population of Gaza. He said it because it is in the strategic interests of the United States, as he sees it, to give Israel impunity. Is the Taoiseach going to finally challenge this horror and the impunity that Israel enjoys? Will he acknowledge that it is, according to every single international human rights organisation, many of which published reports in the last year, an apartheid regime that is guilty of the illegal annexation and occupation of other people's lands and territory and does not have a right to defend apartheid or illegal occupation, and that it should be condemned and sanctioned for carrying out those crimes?

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