Results 41-60 of 104 for israel speaker:David Norris

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2012)

David Norris: ..., I shall vote against the Order of Business today. Would the Leader be kind enough to clarify for me a serious report I have received? Apparently, there was a programme on Channel 10 News in Israel on which it was stated they had in their possession a communiqué to Jerusalem from the deputy Israeli ambassador, Ms Nurit Tinari Modai, in which she stated they should be working against...

Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Feb 2012)

David Norris: .... They are bullying. As I pointed out yesterday in the foreign affairs committee to their Minister for propaganda, they are also rearming. This time, however, they are not arming themselves but Israel, with a new submarine being built in Kiel.

Seanad: Education (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (25 Jan 2012)

David Norris: ...because of their strong views on issues such as abortion. One must be very careful there because it is perfectly possible for a teacher to have strong views on any subject, ranging from Palestine, Israel, abortion, homosexuality and pornography, but not necessarily inflict them on students. If they retain these as their private views, there is no justification for dismissing them. I...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Nov 2011)

David Norris: ...people. In the new Europe we must have the welfare of the people put as the primary concern of good government. I support the remarks of Senator Bacik and Senator Cullinane about the situation in Israel. It is extraordinary and Kafkaesque. People on an errand of mercy on the high seas are hijacked, brought forcibly to a country whose regime is hostile to their intent and then an attempt...

Seanad: Interception of Gaza-bound Humanitarian Flotilla: Statements (2 Jun 2010)

David Norris: ...with him that one should, first, express one's sympathy to the relatives of the dead and the injured in what was undoubtedly an act of piracy which took place on the high seas. It was suggested Israel was in some measure under threat, but that calls into question the nature of the regime within Israel. We are always told that Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East. This has...

Seanad: Interception of Gaza-bound Humanitarian Flotilla: Statements (2 Jun 2010)

David Norris: I am sure he will allow me to take another 30 seconds or so. The alleged firing of rockets is another lie. The rockets ceased. The Hamas ceasefire was provoked by an Israeli military incursion. I have put all this stuff on the record. We have seen the Goldstone report. The Minister's contribution was very good. Now is the time for action. Mr. Justice Goldstone, who is Jewish, has...

Seanad: Interception of Gaza-bound Humanitarian Flotilla: Statements (2 Jun 2010)

David Norris: Why did we choose not to veto it? That is something we could have done. Instead, we are discussing an enhanced financial arrangement with Israel. Perhaps it is all just words. We need to end the words and get a bit of action.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jun 2010)

David Norris: I join my colleagues in welcoming the fact there will be a debate tomorrow on the situation in Gaza. The flotilla of peace attacked by the Israeli defence forces was approaching the coastline of Gaza but was in international waters, which makes this an unprovoked act of piracy on the part of the Israeli authorities. This is now Israel's equivalent of Bloody Sunday and will turn world...

Seanad: Depleted Uranium Weapons (18 May 2010)

David Norris: ...Korea and South Africa. The countries which are believed to have depleted uranium weapons in their arsenals are the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Russia, Belarus, Greece, Turkey, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman, Egypt, Kuwait, Pakistan, Thailand, China, India and Taiwan. The situation in respect of depleted uranium weapons is highly dangerous and their legal status is not...

Seanad: Prohibition of Depleted Uranium Weapons Bill 2009: Second Stage (3 Mar 2010)

David Norris: .... People are taking this increasingly seriously. Costa Rica has just introduced legislation along these lines. Seventeen countries have this kind of weapon: Britain, the United States, France, Israel, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Greece, Turkey, Bahrain, Oman, Egypt, Kuwait, Pakistan, Thailand, China, India and Taiwan. The British company, BAE, was producing depleted uranium shells for the...

Seanad: Haiti Disaster: Motion (Resumed) (27 Jan 2010)

David Norris: ...organisations. It is wonderful that Aer Lingus has got involved as it has done. While I honour the good work that has been done in Haiti by members of the armed forces of the United States and Israel, we should show a little caution. I am worried that the various countries are not acting in a co-ordinated way. Each country seems to be acting for itself. An Italian earthquake expert was...

Seanad: Defence Forces Equipment (9 Nov 2009)

David Norris: ...of ethical purchasing. I will not hold the Minister personally responsible because I know he is simply reading a script and imagine his heart would be where mine is on the matter. The state of Israel now stands at the bar of international public opinion because of the invasion of Gaza, the construction of the wall and so on. The Israelis have flagrantly violated international legal norms...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2009)

David Norris: ...call it the Romeo and Juliet syndrome. The matter must be investigated because this issue was discussed in the House and I warned this might happen. I wish to raise the sentencing yesterday in an Israeli court of Ezra Nawi, an Israeli citizen with whom I had a long relationship and whom I still value. He was sentenced in a manner that was very close to the Denning judgment. He was...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2009)

David Norris: That tells the story of democracy in Israel today.

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] : Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2009)

David Norris: ...". It continued: If Jesus were in Ireland today, under the new law, wouldn't he be one of its first victims, held in Portlaoise, perhaps, while lawyers debated whether he should be deported to Israel, or the Palestinian Authority, or tried here? Muslims might find their mosques under close inspection, too. The question raised, which the Minister has not answered, was that of a concrete...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 May 2009)

David Norris: ...on the human rights council of the United Nations, which is very important. We could raise cases such as that of Ezra Nawi, someone who is personally known to me, a human rights activist in Israel who has intervened in a non-violent way to try to prevent the destruction of Palestinian houses, who was arrested and is being sentenced in a case over which there is precisely the same doubt as...

Seanad: Middle East Conflict: Motion (26 Feb 2009)

David Norris: ...and we must wake up to that fact. It is not going to happen, partly for the reasons outlined by Senator Eugene Regan's magisterial contribution, which mentioned the words of a distinguished Israeli academic, Professor Seigman, who acknowledged that the idea of a Palestinian state has been made inoperable by the actions of the Israeli Government since. It knows that and is prepared for...

Seanad: Middle East: Statements (18 Feb 2009)

David Norris: I believe it was Israel.

Seanad: Middle East: Statements (18 Feb 2009)

David Norris: .... We are trying a balancing act. It is a pity the Minister of State could not have attended the meeting of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs last week to hear the distinguished Israeli historian, Professor Ilan Pappé, say we should avoid this attempt to be even-handed because it does violence to the real situation. We are always trying to balance and say on the one...

Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (4 Feb 2009)

David Norris: ...of rented space. Who rented the space? It was rented by Government agencies, not the Equality Authority. There is a black mark for that. I am aware we have done a fair amount with regard to Israel, but we did not push sufficiently on the external trade association agreement. Senator Daly is correct that 75% of Israel's agricultural produce is imported into the European Union. The...