Brendan Ryan (Labour)

It should be pointed out that his release was secured through the good offices of an organisation that has been traduced across the world, an organisation that has brought security, stability and some semblance of law and order to a part of the world where the previous and current Government of Palestine singularly failed. That Government was in cahoots with some of the most corrupt elements in the Gaza Strip. Hamas has begun to deal with those corrupt elements. It is time the world faced up to the fact that the people of Palestine voted for Hamas——