Paul Donnelly (Dublin West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Untruth, mistruth, whatever way we want to word it. We all know exactly what we are talking about here. The comments overnight by the American President have shocked the entire world - the horror of a world leader openly talking about ethnic cleansing a whole population for his developer friends in the US and Israel should be a line in the sand for the other world leaders, including those in this Government.

The EU acted decisively when Ukraine was attacked and occupied by Putin and Russia. It is now time to use those same arguments and logic to act against the Israeli apartheid regime. In this Parliament, we have had a Ukrainian flag from the very day that Ukraine was occupied. Where is the Palestinian flag? Where is the support for the Palestinian people shown clearly in this Parliament?

Most of the world stood by and watched genocide take place in Gaza. Even today the world stands by as the brutal Israeli military machine attacks the West Bank. I watched a video last night showing dozens of bombs going off simultaneously in the Jenin camp which is as heavily built up as Gaza is. I do not know how many people were killed in those attacks last night and we probably never will know. We will never know the number of people who have been killed in Gaza because many of them are still buried beneath that rubble. How bizarre that the State can turn a blind eye and trade with a state that is before the International Criminal Court for genocide while at the same time joining in that case.

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