Mick Barry (Cork North Central, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

Last week, the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel has a case to answer on a charge of genocide. Who is the individual, outside of Israel itself, who has by far the greatest responsibility for funding and arming that Israeli assault? It is the man the Taoiseach intends to hand a bowl of shamrock on 17 March - President Joe Biden. Will his hand tremble when he hands over that bowl? Will he squirm when he poses for that photograph? How does he think that photograph will look to the people of Gaza who have lost sons and daughters to the bombs made in the USA and paid for by the Biden Administration? The Taoiseach will hand over that bowl of shamrock on behalf of the Irish people. To be clear, he will not do it in my name. Does he not realise that there are, at the very least, hundreds of thousands of people living in this State who will be disgusted by his action?

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