Gino Kenny (Dublin Mid West, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

The Tánaiste has been very inconsistent. We have called for the expulsion of the Russian ambassador and the Israeli ambassador. Both of them should be expelled for the war crimes they are committing. The Tánaiste needs to go beyond words. One of the things we have been calling for is enactment of the occupied territories Bill. Can the Tánaiste imagine if the Government had done that? It is a very limited move against the Zionist state but can he imagine the signal that would send to the European Union and the world, that Ireland, a small country, is standing up against the Zionist state that is enacting terrible war crimes against the people of Palestine? Why can the Government not do that? I do not believe that there is legal advice out there saying it cannot do it. Of course it can do it, but it takes guts and guile to do it. The Government will not do it because it is afraid of the blowback from the United States. Essentially, that is what it is. The Government should have principle and guile and say it is going to stand up and have sanctions against the Israeli state.

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