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

None of the horror that has happened over the past four months would have happened if western governments, including the European Union and the United States, had not given impunity to Israel for years. Long before the current horrific escalation of violence, Israel was indicted for war crimes and crimes against humanity for its occupation, apartheid and ethnic cleansing, which has been going on for decades. The world did not sanction Israel. This Government refused to even use the word "apartheid" when it is blatantly an apartheid regime, it is blatant that the siege of Gaza was collective punishment of 2 million people and it is blatant that the Israeli Government is engaged in an ongoing campaign of ethnic cleansing. Impunity was granted and that has given Netanyahu and the crazed, bloodthirsty Ministers in his government, who are his lieutenants, the confidence to believe that they can continue with this massacre. We have to impose sanctions on this regime and admit it is not a normal state and it is an apartheid, colonial, brutal regime, and that if we want to see peace, as we do, it has to mean the end of that apartheid regime and there can be equality between Jews, Muslims, Christians and people of no religion who can share the land of Palestine as equals.

We would not accept anything less anywhere else. We did not accept it in South Africa. It has to be imposed by western governments.

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