Dáil debates
Wednesday, 5 February 2025
Situation in Palestine: Motion [Private Members]
8:35 am
Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source
Last night, in the latest ravings of Donald Trump, we got a threat by the US President on television to commit war crimes and crimes against humanity, namely, the crime of ethnic cleansing. Donald Trump should now be indicted by the International Criminal Court for saying what Netanyahu told the world he was going to do before he started the Gaza genocide when his Government threatened publicly to commit genocide against the people of Gaza. The world stood by and did nothing. We continued to treat the Israeli state as if it is a normal state, maintaining relations with it, continuing to trade with it and being part of a European Union that arms it to the teeth. Are Government members going to go over and hand a bowl of shamrock to that monster in the White House who is threatening to ethnically cleanse 2 million Palestinians and is arming the regime that is committing genocide?
The least the Government can do is pass the occupied territories Bill. In fact, we need to go a lot further. Just like apartheid South Africa, this terrorist regime must be cast out of the community of civilised nations. The Government must kick out the ambassador and all diplomatic personnel, stop the US military using Shannon and cut off all trade with this regime, or it has not a semblance of humanity.
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