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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (30 Nov 2017)

...unity government again. It is very important for further reconciliation to succeed for us for two reasons. First, it will make us much stronger in confronting all of these oppressions from the Israeli side and in changing the balance of power. However, it is also important to bring democracy back to Palestine. It is important to bring our parliament back to life because it has been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (30 Nov 2017)

...to drag on. It is definite that the Palestinians are not causing the process to drag on, given that they are living under a brutal foreign occupation that they want to end as soon as possible. Israel wants to drag on the occupation because the longer it takes to resolve, the more facts on the ground can be established, the most important being the establishment of settlements in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (30 Nov 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: The witnesses mentioned the American ambassador to Israel. Does the United States have a representative in Ramallah? The committee and I have met delegations from non-governmental organisations, NGOs, and civil society from Israel who are as critical as the witnesses of their government. There is a need for those voices in Israel and Palestine, who want to see democracy and respect for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (30 Nov 2017)

Dr. Rima Khalaf Hunaidi: My colleague, Dr. Barghouthi, has covered the suffering of Palestinians under direct Israeli military occupation and rule. I will address Israel's violations of international law and how Israel robs all Palestinians, wherever they live, of their freedoms and universally acknowledged human rights, including the right to self-determination and the right to justice. A...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (30 Nov 2017)

Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi: The first question was about settlements and what settlers do. Israel uses a combination of laws to impose its regime on the ground. The committee might be surprised to know that Israel still uses the Ottoman Turkish law, the British mandatory law, British emergency law, Israeli law, Jordanian law and no less than 2,400 military orders to impose its facts on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (30 Nov 2017)

..." and which has not said that it would support the creation of an independent Palestinian state. Second, this Administration is quite different from previous Administrations in how it responds to Israeli settlement activities. It is not doing anything. The rate at which settlements expand has increased by 100% since President Trump was elected. The third problem relates to the nature of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (30 Nov 2017)

Seán Crowe: I welcome the witnesses. I share the frustrations of the speakers about the current situation in Palestine and the impunity that the international community, including Ireland, provides for Israel. For those who are watching the proceedings at home, some of the witnesses' comments this morning will be shocking, especially the idea that Israel portrays itself as a very liberal society that,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (30 Nov 2017)

Darragh O'Brien: ...the witnesses. It is a pleasure to have them addressing the committee. I thank Sadaka for the work it does here on behalf of the Palestinians. The issue of Palestine and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is always to the forefront of this committee's work. It is also to the forefront in Fianna Fáil. Unfortunately, today the witnesses have painted a very bleak picture and one of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (30 Nov 2017)

...case, unfortunately we have ended up with a peace process that has become a substitute for peace because the US has a monopoly over the so-called peace process, a total bias in favour of Israel and an inability to play an impartial role. We have ended up with a peace process that has become a substitute for peace and a cover for the expansion of Israeli settlements. The Israeli facts on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (30 Nov 2017)

...to take action. The first reaction was to make it disappear. My reaction was not to resign. I said, "The report is in front of you. If you find any flaw in the argument, if we misquoted an Israeli law or misrepresented an Israeli practice, if we arrived at any wrong conclusion, if you can point to any flaw in the analysis, I am willing to withdraw the report without asking any...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (30 Nov 2017)

Ivana Bacik: ...Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, and he took up the groundbreaking stance. Ms Crawley has quoted Eamon Gilmore in her presentation to the committee as having said, "The continuing Israeli military occupation of the Palestinian territories is at the heart of the unresolved Arab-Israeli conflict". A very clear position was set out there. On that point of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (30 Nov 2017)

...against the occupation. Dr. Marghouthi is one of the most active grassroots leaders in Palestine. He has made an extraordinary contribution to initiatives which peacefully challenge the ongoing Israeli occupation of Palestine as well as efforts to build the institutional framework of Palestinian civil society and promote the principles of internal democracy and good governance. Dr. Rima...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (30 Nov 2017)

...of their right to go home, the right to return to the places from which they were displaced in 1948 in one of the worst forms of ethnic cleansing. Today, things are getting worse because the Israeli Government feels it has impunity to, and is above, international law. It feels it can violate international humanitarian law with impunity as well. The Israeli public, unfortunately, is...