Ruairí Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Taoiseach has said himself that what we are seeing in Gaza from Israel is more revenge than it is any element of defence. We have seen an absolute abject failure from a security point of view from Israel in what they dreadfully term "mowing the grass". There has been much in the public domain in the sense of Benjamin Netanyahu at times having seen Hamas as an asset in dealing with a split Palestinian leadership and facilitating what has happened in the West Bank and what has made it nearly impossible to deliver the two-state solution. What interventions does the Irish Government propose to take with whatever international friends we have from a point of view of calling out what is genocide and ethnic cleansing, and some form of intervention that can bring us or at least produce some roadmap to justice and self-determination for the Palestinian people? That is the only thing that can secure even Israeli security.

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