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

I note that at the summit there was a lot of talk about adherence to international law, which is right. There is no doubt the atrocities that Putin has carried out are horrendous and that it was a bloody and indefensible invasion, occupation and war. However, it is difficult to credit the claims of adherence to international law or the desire for peace when, at the same time that all of this is going on, many of the countries in attendance at the conference continue to support and arm the state of Israel while it is guilty of committing genocide in front of our eyes. While we were counting the votes in the European and local elections, Israel slaughtered just under 300 people in Al-Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza in what an Al Jazeera journalist described as “descending into hell”. After the opprobrium at that, last night, Israel was attacking the same refugee camp again. It was also killing people in Rafah as they waited for aid trucks. However, nothing is done. Some of those in attendance at that conference, like the United States and others, continue to arm the state that is doing this. In fact, they may well have been complicit in the attack on the refugee camp as it looks like their troops on the so-called humanitarian pier were involved in supporting the Israeli massacre in that refugee camp. When are the shocking double standards and failure to act against Israel's genocidal attack by the western governments that arm and support it, including in the European Union, going to stop? When are we going to see sanctions?

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