Paschal Mooney (Fianna Fail)

——supported by a pliant US political establishment, governed more by the pressure of the Jewish lobby, and the fear of losing votes and being branded anti-Semitic, than by any sense of political objectivity.

On the other side there is now a Hamas-dominated Administration, elected as a response to a corrupt and inefficient Fatah governing class by a beleaguered people, the majority of whom I believe voted for any alternative through a yearning for peace and economic prosperity. AsShylock said in "The Merchant of Venice", "I bleed the same as you do". A Palestinian family living in the rubble of the notorious Gaza refugee camps, which I have visited——