Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

In relation to the single-state solution, I think that is naive. It is a really nice idea. It might be the kind of thing that Deputy Boyd Barrett and I would sign up to, being secular people, but it is very evident to me that the people of Israel do not want a single-state solution, they want a Jewish state, and most Palestinians, many of whom voted for Hamas in the last election, want an Islamic state. That is the reality of it.

I heard what the Deputy said - that the West should impose it on them - but is that not exactly why we so many problems in the world, because the west tried to impose its solutions on other parts of the world, whether it was partition or imposing systems of government that people do not want? It is a funny form of imperialism that the Deputy is actually advocating himself, that the west should impose on people in Israel and Palestine a system or a statehood that they do not want.

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