Results 1-20 of 22 for israel speaker:Michael McDowell

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

Michael McDowell: ...where peace on earth is needed more than ever. When I saw pictures of naked men being herded onto lorries, I thought the last time the world saw that was very different. I appeal to the people of Israel and those of the Jewish faith all around the world to ask themselves whether this is not a calamity for them that is growing day by day.

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

Michael McDowell: ...has said 100%. What has been said by other speakers is equally true. Hamas is an extremist Islamist terrorist organisation. It is not the Palestinian people. It is dedicated to the destruction of Israel. It is dedicated to the reversal of the 1948 expulsions of Arabs and the reintegration of a single Palestinian land. Hamas is backed by Iran in all of this. What was done the other...

Seanad: Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Motion (18 Oct 2023)

Michael McDowell: I just want to say a few words about the implications what is about to happen in Gaza, by all appearances. It appears the Israeli Defense Forces are about to invade Gaza. They have laid down a sort of zone for clearance by at least half of the people of Gaza, which has 2.2 million people, and they want them to move south. What happens when they move into that area? Will the Israeli...

Seanad: Situation in Israel and occupied Palestinian territory: Statements (12 Jul 2023)

Michael McDowell: I believe in the right of the state of Israel to exist. I believe that Resolution 242 of the United Nations represents the correct position in international law as regards the boundaries of the state of Israel. I regard the creeping annexation of the West Bank territories as illegal and manifestly illegal. I regard the establishment of settlements on Palestinian land as wholly contrary to...

Seanad: Situation in Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel: Statements (17 May 2021)

Michael McDowell: ...of these things. People talk about sowing the wind and reaping the whirlwind. This cycle must stop. I speak as somebody who, like Senator Black, is a member of the European Parliamentarians for Israeli-Palestinian Equality, a network of people from across European parliaments and in the European Parliament who are, effectively, trying to call a halt to the annexation of the West Bank and...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Nov 2019)

Michael McDowell: ...to The Irish Timeswho is probably known to most Members of this House wrote to the effect that the rendering illegal of settlement goods produced in the Occupied Territories was of a piece with requiring Israelis, if they came to Ireland, to wear the Star of David. That is deeply offensive to those of us who supported the Bill, who strongly support the right of the state of Israel to...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Sep 2019)

Michael McDowell: ...of the UK Parliament yet we seem to be frozen in inaction when confronted by the same issues. I will say two things with regard to the Bill.It has been suggested by a number of people in the Israeli Government, including Mr. Netanyahu, and a number of their keen supporters here in Ireland, who are by no means representative of the entire Jewish community in Ireland but are ardent Zionists...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Apr 2019)

Michael McDowell: ...Order of Business the attitude of the Government to the declared statement of the then candidate, Benjamin Netanyahu, on the annexation of the settlements in the West Bank and the declaration of Israeli sovereignty over them. Today, all appearances are that he is going to be the head of the next government with the support of parties of the right and religious parties in the Israeli...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Apr 2019)

Michael McDowell: ...now going down the road of taking that power away from local authorities, which is wholly wrong. The second issue I raise is that, as we conduct our affairs today, a general election is under way in Israel. In an effort to obtain the maximum number of seats, the Netanyahu administration - I would call it a regime - has pledged to annex Palestinian settlements and make them part of...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Apr 2019)

Michael McDowell: As the Senator has said, they are Semitic people as well. I want justice for these people. I do not want this international regime of bully boys from Brazil, Israel, America and Moscow to become legitimised because decent people do not speak out and houses of parliament in liberal democracies do not make their views known.

Seanad: Conflict in Yemen: Motion (19 Dec 2018)

Michael McDowell: ...there are three very good books, one being "The Ottoman Twilight", and the other two written by James Barr, one of which deals with what happened in the northern Arab lands between Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan and Iraq, and the other, published recently, is "Lords of the Desert", which describes the Anglo-American involvement in the Arabian peninsula. To put it mildly, "Lords...

Seanad: Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (5 Dec 2018)

Michael McDowell: ...I have had the opportunity to read them. I agree with them. That is not to say there is always one infallible view on these matters. I agree with Senator O'Sullivan. I stand for the right of Israel to exist and in supporting the Bill, I am not taking an anti-Israeli position. The right of Israel to exist within internationally accepted borders is an absolute right which the country is...

Seanad: Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (5 Dec 2018)

Michael McDowell: It is not opposed to the existence of Israel or the legitimacy of the Israeli state. It is merely saying that international law must mean something and that this Chamber of the Irish Parliament is determined to make it clear that international law cannot be flouted with impunity. We are not obliged to accept de facto annexation of land in a manner that infringes international law.

Seanad: Situation in Palestine: Statements (11 Jul 2018)

Michael McDowell: I stand by what the United Nations declared in Resolution 242 that this is not Israeli territory and that its annexation is therefore illegal and must end. It violates international law. If, like Senator Marshall, I took the view that things were progressing in the right direction and we were in the middle of a delicate peace process that could be destabilised by unilateral statements from...

Seanad: Situation in Palestine: Statements (11 Jul 2018)

Michael McDowell: -----and that message has to be a very simple one, that is, Israel must respect the rule of international law, go for the two-state solution-----

Seanad: Situation in Palestine: Statements (11 Jul 2018)

Michael McDowell: .... Therefore, no matter how complicated our position is by virtue of our membership of the European Union and no matter how ineffectual the passage of this Bill may be economically on the state of Israel, as somebody who has always supported the right of Israel to exist, I believe the passage of the Bill may begin to set off similar gestures and stances in other countries across the world...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)

Michael McDowell: ...ireach, macánta agus cairdiúil é agus guím dea-ghuí air ina phost nua i TG4. Tá aiféala orm go bhfuil sé chun éirigh as oifig sa Teach seo. The second point I want to make is as follows. We read in the newspapers last week that the Prime Minister of Israel, Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu, had summoned the Irish ambassador to protest to her about the...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)

Michael McDowell: ...but our duty to consider legislation, and to give it a fair debate, without interference by the representative of any sovereign power. I say that without any malice or ill will whatsoever towards Israel whose existence I support, and I support a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli issue. I also support Resolution 242 of the UN in terms of the extent of Israel and the extent of...

Seanad: Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Jan 2018)

Michael McDowell: ...permissible under European law for the reasons that have been mentioned and I do not believe that there is a constitutional or European law obstacle to this legislation. I do not see the Bill as anti-Israeli or anti-Semitic. Nor do I see it as anti-Zionist. I believe the Bill is proportionate and reasonable in its aim. There may be a solution, however, that appeals to everyone in the...

Written Answers — Deportation Orders: Deportation Orders (10 Feb 2005)

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