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

Israel's ongoing genocidal, year-long massacre in Gaza and now its savage assault on Lebanon have triggered a terrifying escalation of conflict and violence that threatens to engulf the entire Middle East. It is worth saying that the state that is guilty of this massacre in Gaza and that is attacking Lebanon has nuclear weapons and has refused to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. This is a state for which there is no atrocity it is unwilling to commit, no butchery or massacre that it is not willing to perpetrate and no red line it is not willing to cross. It has nuclear weapons and does not believe in international efforts to contain the proliferation of same. This is a scary situation. There are 379 Irish troops and over 100 Irish citizens in Lebanon. Equally important, more than 1,000 Lebanese men, women and children - the count is going up - have been butchered with missiles. We had a James Bond-like explosion of thousands of pagers, indiscriminately killing dozens of people and injuring hundreds more and 41,689 people have been killed in Gaza over the last year since Israel began this onslaught. There were 60 people killed in Gaza last night and more than 200 Lebanese people have been killed in the last few days. The International Court of Justice has ruled that Israel is guilty of illegal occupation of Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem. It is, by its own admission, committing crimes under international law, war crimes.

What is the Taoiseach and the world going to do about it? In particular, is the Government speaking out of both sides of its mouth on this issue? The Government says it is concerned about what Israel is doing and about the crimes it is committing but then we get a report that the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, had a conversation with the Israelis back in 2019 and gave assurances that the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill, which the Government still refuses to pass-----

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