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Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2015)

David Norris: ...a statement on the matter. I will provide the Leader with the information and would be most grateful if he would make that contact. The village has been in existence for 200 years. In 1983 an Israeli Jewish village called Sousia was established and three years later the Israelis declared the Palestinian Sousia an archaeological site and moved in to demolish it. The people...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2014)

David Norris: ...concerning the recognition of the state of Palestine. The Cathaoirleach himself recalled the Seanad, most unusually, during the summer to discuss Gaza during the appalling onslaught on it by Israel. It is a horrifying situation to think that the Euro-Med agreement exists with human rights protocols attached to it but which are never even monitored. There were clear violations of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Gaza - Middle East Peace Process: Palestinian and Israeli Ambassadors (3 Sep 2014)

David Norris: I beg the Chair's pardon but I must contradict him on that. She is a diplomatic representative of the State of Israel-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Gaza - Middle East Peace Process: Palestinian and Israeli Ambassadors (3 Sep 2014)

David Norris: I would be grateful for an opportunity to place on record my background, as it has been impugned. I have spoken not only on Israel but also on Tibet, East Timor, Nicaragua, Syria, Bosnia, Guatemala, Iraq and Iran - I could go on forever. I am interested in human rights. I also supported the evacuation of Jewish people from Russia and continually supported Israel when it was in the right. ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Gaza - Middle East Peace Process: Palestinian and Israeli Ambassadors (3 Sep 2014)

David Norris: ...statement that because males aged between 17 and 30 make up 10% of the Gaza population and their proportion among the dead was 44%, "[t]hese men were Hamas terrorists"? Is it now the logic of the Israeli Government that one can declare somebody a terrorist on the basis of his or her age? That seems extraordinary. How can one possibly say that these people were terrorists? The miles of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Gaza - Middle East Peace Process: Palestinian and Israeli Ambassadors (3 Sep 2014)

David Norris: A negotiation was made without reference to Hamas. The ambassador stated that he had not heard one solution or positive suggestion. I will give him one. Israel should talk to Hamas, the appropriately elected Government of Palestine, regrettable as that may be, in the same way as it speaks to the regime in Egypt. Every time an Islamic government is elected, the United States, the West and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Gaza - Middle East Peace Process: Palestinian and Israeli Ambassadors (3 Sep 2014)

David Norris: I welcome the ambassador. I would like to ask about diplomatic initiatives, particularly the Euro-Med agreement covering trade between Israel and EU. Human rights protocols are attached to that agreement. I have consistently called for them to be monitored but they have not been; nobody is even watching them. What steps is the state of Palestine taking to ensure the EU monitors these...

Seanad: Situation in Gaza and Ukraine: Statements (31 Jul 2014)

David Norris: ...East after what he and George W. Bush have done to the region. On the other side, three moth-balled schools were used to store weapons. That was discovered by the UN and reported by it, not by the Israelis. Entire families have been obliterated and in one case, 20 members of the same family were slaughtered. Also, a disproportionate amount of women and children have been killed in this...

Seanad: Situation in Gaza and Ukraine: Statements (31 Jul 2014)

David Norris: Israeli goods, particularly those from the settlements, should be boycotted and there should be an expulsion of the Israeli ambassador.  I delayed in saying this, but he always has his fingers in his ears and just repeats slogans from Jerusalem. I have received a considerable volume of correspondence, 90% of it in support of the Israeli side.  I respect all of my correspondents but...

Seanad: Situation in Gaza and Ukraine: Statements (31 Jul 2014)

David Norris: ...answer in the international context is "Nothing", because nobody will pay that much attention to what Ireland does. I remember being in Palestine some years ago in an area that was heavily controlled by the Israelis, and I said to my Palestinian hosts, "You know there is nothing I can do, I will have no effect", and they said, "But at least you will be a witness, you will be a record to...

Seanad: Situation in Gaza and Ukraine: Statements (31 Jul 2014)

David Norris: What about imposing sanctions on Israel?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Councils: Discussion with Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (4 Dec 2013)

David Norris: .... I am pleased that the question of the Middle East, the so-called peace process and the less and less likely two-state solution was brought up. There is a great deal of smoke and mirrors in this. The Israelis released 52 political prisoners but at the same time they snatched a further 550, ten times the number they released. I am glad that Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan visited Israel....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Unethical Organ Harvesting in China: Discussion (10 Jul 2013)

David Norris: .... The numbers and forensic analysis clearly demonstrate that a massive crime against humanity has been perpetrated. Can the delegation forward relevant legislation used in other places such as Israel and Australia to the committee? We might be able to produce a similar model. I tabled a motion but it is fairly weak and is couched in quite diplomatic terms. I hope the evidence today...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trade Promotion: Discussion with American Chamber of Commerce Ireland (Resumed) (1 May 2013)

David Norris: ...to raise them, not in away that is hostile to the United States but because I believe it is important that they be kept up to the moral standard, in the same way as I believe that the State of Israel is betraying the moral ethos of Judaism in the way it is treating the Palestinians at present. I welcome the slight move by President Obama in the last few days on Guantanamo. I know it is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Presidency: Discussion with Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (23 Jan 2013)

David Norris: ...the proposal for an "In-Out" referendum by the UK Prime Minister. I will refer to a few things in the Tánaiste's speech. He referred to the conclusions of last May regarding the implications of the Israeli settlements. I would put that in the context of the unprecedented and alarming expansion of those settlements and the commitment given by Mr. Netanyahu to do this in east...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Foreign Affairs Council: Discussion with Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (21 Nov 2012)

David Norris: ...on it was a very useful one. I will not go into because it is far too technical. The clear indications are that products originating in the West Bank do not fall within the territorial scope of the EC-Israel agreement, the Euromed agreement, and therefore they can be subject to this measure, in addition to which, the Israeli settlements in Palestine have been held by the International...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Nov 2012)

David Norris: ...Pray for the peace of Jerusalem". I pray for the peace of Jerusalem and Gaza. I was moved last night by the concerns expressed on television by two women, one a Jewish woman who has relatives in Israel and the other a Palestinian woman who has relatives in Gaza, for their relatives. That is a balance of grief. However, when it comes to the actual military situation on the ground, what...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Nov 2012)

David Norris: I am glad my colleagues have raised the situation in the Middle East, which is very troubling indeed. The behaviour of the Israeli government in recent years indicates a kind of malign triumph for Christendom. After 20 centuries of persecution of the Jews, we have managed to drag them down to our own barbaric level. I find it absolutely disgusting. Yesterday one entire family was wiped...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Oct 2012)

David Norris: ...priority, but that seems to have slipped. Will the Leader bring this matter to the Government's attention? The Tánaiste is on board, but people do not realise. The European Parliament rewards Israel every time it misbehaves. This is astonishing. Operation Cast Lead was immediately followed by an improvement in trade relations. Human rights protocols have never operated. In the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Discussion with Ambassador of Islamic Republic of Iran (10 Oct 2012)

David Norris: ...moral authority than the holy prophet himself? That seems to be an arrogance that is very close to blasphemy. I also raised the question of the Jewish people with them. I have been accused by Israel of being anti-Semitic. If everybody thinks I am a different thing, perhaps some little core is right. It is unrealistic to deny the Holocaust, or to arrest tiny communities on the basis of...