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

In his regular statements, the Taoiseach is very happy to say - as am I - that Putin is a warmonger, tyrant and imperialist. The problem is, however, the people the Government wants us to ally with in the United States and Europe, are also brutal warmongers, imperialists and militarists. Trump is giving billions to Israel to commit a genocide in Gaza and is actively promoting the ethnic cleansing of Gaza.

The first action of Friedrich Merz, the new Chancellor of Germany, is to invite Prime Minister Netanyahu, a wanted war criminal who is guilty of the genocidal massacres in Gaza and the horrific actions Israel is committing against Palestinians, to the country at the same time he proposes we spend billions more on weapons - hundreds of billions to use his phrase - similar to Ursula von der Leyen. Many European states and the US which the Government allies itself with are complicit in genocide. The Government is right to condemn Putin but will it acknowledge European leaders and the US are complicit in genocide? Will the Government call them out? Israel could not do it; it could not commit the crimes it is committing without the weapons provided by the United States, Germany, Britain, Italy and France. Will the Government say they are complicit in this genocidal horror?

Yesterday, I heard a trauma surgeon from the United States working in Gaza describe a young infant who he said had the worst injuries he had ever seen in his life. The child's limbs were blown to pieces - mutilated - and he said that little baby will probably have to have all four limbs amputated. This is the horror, the brutality, the disgusting actions being done by Israel, with weapons provided by the Government's allies in Europe. Will the Government call them out for their crimes and distance this country from them? Will it stop facilitating the sale of Israeli war bonds in the Central Bank?

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