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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: And a free Palestine.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: That is why we condemned 7 October and Hamas. That form of jihadism and rapine was unacceptable too. The Deputy has never done that. He has never condemned it-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Hamas was not even around in 1987. It did not even exist.
- 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)
Micheál Martin: Ireland is doing everything it possibly can. It may not appeal to the sort of popular rhetoric the Deputy will engage in from time to time. By the way, Ireland is recognised in the Arab world for its leadership on that question, and maybe the Deputy could acknowledge that from time to time.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)
Question No. 56 taken with Written Answers.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)
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- 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: I will answer the question the Deputy has tabled and I will then deal with the specifics of his further questions. Sanctions are a tool of the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy and part of a comprehensive approach to the pursuit of EU foreign policy objectives, along with political dialogue and other complementary efforts and instruments. Ireland actively pushed for agreement at EU...
- 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)
Micheál Martin: When the Deputy spoke earlier about the International Court of Justice, I do not think he was upfront with the Irish people in terms of how it works, and he was deliberately populist and polemic about it. That has been the case on many issues around this question. Ireland wants to be credible in terms of how it legally intervenes in international courts so that when we do it, we do it with...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have been campaigning for Palestinian rights since I was there in 1987 - I lived there - 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...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: Come on. Is the Deputy seriously suggesting we can effectively dismantle the Israeli state?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Dunnes Stores workers played a big role.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: Come on. The Deputy's solution fails in any shape or form to deal with the complexity of the situation. It is not as simple as he has put forward at all. It is a long history, as the Deputy correctly pointed out. It is not as simple as recognising one state and de-recognising another and attempting to dismantle it. That would cause untold further violence and upheaval. In our view,...