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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----because of his particular view. I believe Israel has no strategic approach to the Middle East and has failed abysmally in developing a strategic approach. I believe earlier generations of leaders had a better approach to the idea of a two-state solution and getting there but it is a far more complex situation than the Deputy is articulating here today, to be fair.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Israel is not interested.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 55. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to report on his most recent communications with his European counterparts in relation to imposing sanctions on Israel in light of the International Court of Justice’s recent ruling that there is a plausible case that Israel may be committing genocide in Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20911/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I hope it is clear at this stage that there is no level of atrocity that Israel is not willing to commit against the Palestinian people. It should have been clear long before now for a state that was built on ethnic cleansing on an ongoing basis, on apartheid and on a 17-year-long siege of Gaza, but now, when we look at the massacre in Gaza, it should be clear. Under the genocide...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: ...and entities under the EU global human rights sanctions regime where there is evidence of consistent violations of human rights. In respect of the case initiated by South Africa against Israel under the genocide convention at the International Court of Justice, I welcome in particular the order for additional provisional measures made by the court on 28 March requiring Israel to ensure...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: People Before Profit put a motion to the Dáil in November of last year asking the Government to take a case against Israel for genocide under the ICJ and it voted against it. Now, belatedly, because South Africa did what Ireland should have done, the Government is saying there will be some class of intervention. I suppose later is better than not at all, but when we consider the horror...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: ...- and my position has been very consistent over a very long time, as has been the movement in this country of solidarity with Palestine. My position is that, in relation to the apartheid state of Israel, we need to do what was done to the apartheid state of South Africa. A state based on apartheid and ethnic cleansing has no place in the civilised world. Surely we now have the evidence...