Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)

One state stands apart as a uniquely dangerous nuclear rogue state run by a wanted war criminal facing charges of genocide before the International Court of Justice. It is a state engaged in acts of terror throughout the Middle East, including illegal occupation, settlements, apartheid, annexation, ethnic cleansing, the use of starvation as a weapon of war, the use of aid distribution centres as locations for massacres accounting for 80% of the casualties in the past two months, the bombing of hospitals, refugee camps, residential areas and schools, the targeting of journalists, acts of aggression in contravention of United Nations charters, attacks on neighbours, piracy on the high seas and even shooting at Irish soldiers.

In Gaza alone, 60,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel and more than 130,000 have been wounded in the space of 20 months. Israel is, without question, the principal source of regional instability in the Middle East, yet European Commission President von der Leyen, in her phone chat with the war criminal Netanyahu, signalled that the EU agreed that the state that Israel had just attacked - Iran was the principal source of regional instability. The EU treaties are clear that utterance by the Commission President on foreign and security policy must be consistent with positions agreed by the Foreign Affairs Council, which means the Irish Government. Shockingly, I have not heard the Minister yet say whether von der Leyen acted outside of the EU treaties unlawfully, eroding our sovereignty.

Article 3 of the Treaty on European Union commits the EU to contributing to the strict observation of international law. Central banks are obliged, under Article 127 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, to contribute to achieving such objectives. Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and our Central Bank say it is against EU rules to have regard to international law and that it must continue to facilitate Israeli war bonds, which, in fact, the report last week of the UN special rapporteur, Francesca Albanese, stated had bankrolled the devastation. Her report outlines in detail how corporations are making a killing from the industry of death and occupation, including tourism services such as booking.com and Airbnb. The occupied territories Bill must include services. The EU-Israel association agreement must be suspended, as I have called for in the House for more than a decade, particularly now that Israeli breaches have been confirmed by the EU's own review. The genocide planes flying through Shannon Airport and over our heads, with bombs destined to calculatedly kill innocent Palestinians, must be stopped and inspected. We must do all we can to stop the slaughter. Saoirse don Phalaistín.

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