Results 1-5 of 5 for israel speaker:Timmy Dooley

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)

Timmy Dooley: As the Acting Leader will appreciate, there is great concern across the world about the heightened tensions emerging in the Middle East. Iran’s reaction to provocation by Israel in recent days has brought the situation to a very serious level. It would be a welcome opportunity to invite the Tánaiste to the House at his convenience to discuss with us what he has been doing in...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Feb 2024)

Timmy Dooley: I welcome the comments of the Tánaiste and a number of Ministers since yesterday evening and their forthright assessment of the current activities of the Israeli Government and the Israeli Defense Forces in the continued attack on the Gaza strip, particularly the ground offensive now under way in the Rafah region. The clear comments from the Tánaiste on behalf of the Government...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Nov 2023)

Timmy Dooley: ...there was a free and fair election in Gaza now, I suspect that Hamas would have no place. There is equal revulsion for the activities of Hamas among most of the Palestinian people. Unfortunately, Israel has failed to accept that situation. The only way this can be described now is as collective punishment of the Palestinian people because Hamas happens to be the leader of the...

Seanad: Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (19 Oct 2023)

Timmy Dooley: ...in the first instance. We have to call it out for what it is: Hamas is a terrorist organisation.There should be no equivocation. There is no equivalence between Hamas on the one hand and the State of Israel on the other. We have got to be very clear about that, and unambiguous. By the same token, it is clear that Hamas has little or no regard for the Palestinian people in the way it...

Topical Issue Debate: Middle East Peace Process (19 Jun 2013)

Timmy Dooley: I welcome the opportunity to raise this matter alongside my colleague, Deputy Dowds. Recently, we visited Israel with a group of European parliamentarians on the invitation of the Council for European Palestinian Relations, CEPR, which is working within the EU to further the aims and ambitions of the Arab community in the context of Israel. Our visit was meant to show us at first hand the...