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Defence Forces Service with the United Nations: Motion (16 May 2019)

Brendan Ryan: ...mission, but it has now changed dramatically as the war has spilled over into the UN zone on a number of occasions. As Irish troops continue their deployment, the possibility of military action by Israel in the Golan also remains a serious threat. President Trump’s decision to approve US recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights will only serve to further heighten...

Service by the Defence Forces with the United Nations in 2016: Motion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)

Brendan Ryan: ...alone, our forces were involved with the UNIFIL mission in Lebanon, a United Nations disengagement observer force in the Golan Heights and a UN truce supervision organisation in Syria, Golan and Israel. Our troops also took part in the UN mission for the referendum in Western Sahara, a stabilisation mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo and as observers to the Ivory Coast. We had...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: ...our society and the country at large. I would like to hear something about that matter from the Members opposite. Although the media did not make a big fuss of it, the Arab world yesterday offered Israel a deal. If it returns to its pre-1967 borders, the Arab world will give Israel full recognition. A statement in this regard was issued from Saudi Arabia yesterday on behalf of the Arab...

Seanad: Ethical Foreign Policy: Motion (28 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: ...was correctly concerned about the locking up of the Opposition leader in Zimbabwe. We could refer to Palestine also. There are between 20 and 40 Members of the Palestinian Parliament in jail in Israel but nobody talks about this. We could talk about Guantanamo Bay and the fact that the civilian lawyer of the first prisoner who pleaded guilty, who has now gone to Australia, refused to...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: ...been punished for making a democratic choice and for not accepting a settlement imposed on them. They were punished again this week after coming to a compromise in which Hamas de facto recognised Israel. Hamas is prepared to call a ceasefire and grant de facto recognition to Israel, yet the Palestinian people are told this is not enough. In the history of humanity there has not been a...

Seanad: Current Situation in the Middle East: Statements (Resumed) (18 Oct 2006)

Brendan Ryan: ...and, formerly, Iraq is deemed to be extremist. One ends up in extraordinary moral quagmires if one does not fundamentally state that what we want to see in the Middle East — Iraq, Iran, Syria, Israel and Palestine — is a just settlement and that our position is that of even-handedly and carefully supporting justice. This is why the selective use of language is so bad for our...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Sep 2006)

Brendan Ryan: ...Western world, the European Union and the United States in particular, abandoned any sense of morality in international affairs. The compliance of the European Union and the United States with the Israeli assault on Lebanon in a deliberate campaign was guaranteed to ensure there was no immediate ceasefire. That particular position, which was the EU position, was allowed to go through a...

Seanad: Foreign Conflicts: Motion. (5 Jul 2006)

Brendan Ryan: ...and human crisis. I have only one reason for identifying in this motion a disproportionate suffering on the part of the Palestinian people and that is because it is an undisputable fact. No Israeli children will die tonight for the want of clean water or because their drinking water is polluted by sewage or because there is no electricity. Nobody has the political or military capacity to...

Seanad: Foreign Conflicts: Motion. (5 Jul 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I listened carefully to the speech. In one section, it refers to the kidnapped, captured and arrested members of the Hamas Government and urges Israel to either release or charge them. I say to that, "Hold on for one minute". Israel invades another country, arrests members of the Government of that country and we presume it has the right to charge them. Is that even-handed? Imagine if the...

Seanad: Foreign Conflicts: Motion. (5 Jul 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I move: That Seanad Éireann, —noting with alarm the deteriorating relations between Israel and the Palestinian people, —convinced that violence in this situation is both morally unjustified and politically counter productive, —nevertheless recognises the disproportionate burden of suffering inflicted on the Palestinian people by the actions of the Government and armed forces of Israel...

Seanad: Foreign Conflicts: Motion. (5 Jul 2006)

Brendan Ryan: ...is an event of horrific brutality. I want to get through all of what are now apparently the expected ritual condemnations and to say that of course violence is wrong and unnecessary. Of course the Israeli soldier who was kidnapped and captured should be treated properly and released. The reason he is not mentioned in the motion is that I could not know last Thursday, when I was required to...

Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: ...15 year old girls, it is profoundly and morally wrong. I will not allow anybody to suggest to me that he or she will dictate the language I will use when oppressed people are treated in the way Israel treats the people of Gaza. Israel bombed a power station, and without a doubt, children will die throughout Gaza because electricity is not available to them and because the roads have been...

Seanad: Order of Business. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: ...aim at the children, who simply happened to be there. This took place as recently as yesterday, when people, including children, were killed. Apparently, if there are children in a building when Israel decides it wants to kill someone, that is tough on the children. This is what Ireland supports when it subscribes to the world assault on the people of Palestine for not electing the...

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: .... Among the issues raised in the letter, it was pointed out that the occupying power is responsible for the well-being of the occupied people. It is a profound breach of international law for the Israeli Government to use the people of Palestine as hostages. Ten Israelis have been killed in an horrific car bombing and 20 Palestinians killed by the Israeli defence forces in the same period...

Seanad: Middle East Peace Process: Statements. (26 Apr 2006)

Brendan Ryan: .... The injustices in the Palestinian area would not have justified the killing of a single person. While I do not wish to get involved in a silly what-if debate, it is worth noting that for every Israeli who has died in the intifada, two Palestinians have died. It is difficult for western Europe to have any credibility when it tells the Palestinian Government that uniquely among governments...

Seanad: Order of Business. (6 Apr 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Israel will not denounce violence either.

Seanad: Order of Business. (30 Mar 2006)

Brendan Ryan: ...a statement from Hamas which is a long way from the rhetoric of that organisation six months ago in terms of what it wishes to do. It would be a great tragedy if the changes that have occurred in Israel, including the changes in the occupied territories, were to be allowed to turn into a stalemate in which chaos developed. If the West abandons Hamas, others will provide the resources to...

Seanad: Northern Ireland Issues: Statements. (2 Feb 2006)

Brendan Ryan: ...for them but they can only be persuaded and not forced to do so. For example, as was highlighted by the recent election in Palestine, the people of that country will not be forced to trust Israel by taking away their funding. That is self-evident. I appeal again to Sinn Féin members to realise that. Trust cannot be developed through their inner perspective but rather through the way the...

Seanad: Order of Business. (15 Dec 2005)

Brendan Ryan: .... That is the most immediate problem. Senator Brian Hayes is right about Iran. The situation there is becoming extremely worrying. Let us not forget that until comparatively recently the state of Israel pretended there was no such place as Palestine and said there were no such people as Palestinians, they were Jordanians and Egyptians and other people and that what they moved into in 1948...

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Oct 2004)

Brendan Ryan: ...which has devalued the capacity of countries like Ireland to have influence is our selective approach to saying something is deplorable. While we all agree that the murder by suicide bombers in Israel of perhaps 100 children over the past number of years was deplorable, 600 Palestinian children were killed by the Israeli defence forces in the same period. That is also deplorable. To invade...