Brendan Ryan (Labour)

This House desperately needs a swift debate on two issues. The first is the de facto tolerance of the current multilayered assault on the Palestinian people. Three children were killed this morning by rockets fired by the Israeli army. The Israelis claimed they were trying to kill two people who are part of the same political organisation as the President of the Palestinian Authority, as opposed to the Palestinian Government. The Israelis are now assaulting both the President and Hamas. The EU and Ireland are effectively sitting back and saying that Palestinian children do not count, while Israeli children do. This amounts to institutionalised racism in which Ireland is complicit.