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

Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCeann Comhairle. There is a huge level of agreement on what is going on in Gaza. It is a slaughter of the innocents by the Israelis. We all know of the huge power differentials and whatever else.

We are talking in the context of the EU Council. There was a failure to get any sort of agreement calling for a ceasefire as this slaughter continues. There is only so much I can hear about Germany and its history with the Holocaust. I think I have said before that Germany did not have this particular worry in 1973 when it was asked for support by Israel following the Yom Kippur War. It was obviously a lot more worried when Israel was going to war with Arab armies and it was worried about Arab oil. Do not get me wrong - the Holocaust is literally the greatest crime in human history, but it does not give the okay on the basis that nearly everything that is not the Holocaust is so much lesser. We are talking about the destruction of 25,000 lives and the displacement of 2 million people. We are talking about a part of the world half the size of my county that has been absolutely destroyed from the air.

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