The Israeli Government announced on Sunday that it was closing its embassy in Dublin due to “the extreme anti-Israel policies of the Irish government'.
Taoiseach Simon Harris has said the Israel i government’s decision to close its embassy in Dublin is the “diplomacy of distraction” and Ireland will “not be silenced”.
It also noted Ireland’s decision in May to recognise the State of Palestine alongside Spain and Norway. She suggested that Ireland has been more extreme than any other country in its “extreme vilification and policy against Israel”. On Sunday evening, Fine Gael councillor Jim O’Leary, who is the Cathaoirleach of Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, said that the decision to close the Israeli Embassy was “regrettable but understandable”.
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