Results 21-23 of 23 for israel speaker:Maurice Cummins

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jan 2009)

Maurice Cummins: ...there is not a penny available for their retirement. That should not happen. I join colleagues in calling for a debate on the Middle East. I condemned Hamas for its indiscriminate shelling of Israel on many occasions but "disproportionate" is not a strong enough word to describe the Israeli response to the butchery of women and children which we saw on our television screens. I attended...

Seanad: Cluster Munitions and Anti-Personnel Mines Bill 2008: Second Stage (25 Nov 2008)

Maurice Cummins: ..., mine clearance and stockpile destruction. Ireland formally singed the mine ban treaty on 3 December 1997. It is regrettable that states not party to that treaty include China, Egypt, India, Israel, Pakistan, Russia and the United States. Until some or all of these countries sign up to this treaty the effectiveness of it will not be as robust and as binding as we would all wish. On the...

Seanad: International Criminal Court Bill 2003: Second Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Maurice Cummins: ...the statute in July 1988, one of which was the United States, a point to which I will return. China, which is not exactly a bastion of freedom and human rights, also refused to ratify, as did Iraq. Israel voted against the statute for its own reasons, which one can see when one examines the state terrorism in which it is indulging at the expense of the Palestinian people. Libya, under the...