Successive Irish governments have failed us by tolerating the EU’s acquiescence to the creeping annexation of the West Bank
Successive Irish governments have failed us by yielding to the EU’s acquiescence over creeping annexation of the West BankA displaced Palestinian mother and child rest at a United Nations-run school in Khan Younes in the southern Gaza Strip. Photograph: Yousef Masoud/The New York Timeswas intended to have the exact outcome which is now unfolding before our eyes.
Why did a relatively minor legal measure, meant as a gesture to uphold the territorial integrity of the boundaries of Israel in accordance with Resolution 242 of the United Nations, find itself foot-tripped, and the rights of Palestinians under international law frustrated by an Irish government and its department of foreign affairs? Were we that concerned to keep rank with the EU’s policy of squeaking...
There is no point in having policy in a shoebox in Iveagh House. Irish people, in the overwhelming majority, support Israel’s right to exist and to security in its internationally recognised borders. The Irish people have the right to expect some degree of assertiveness on the part of the Irish government – the executive power in the Irish State – to uphold international law in relation to those boundaries.
Hamas is a terrorist, extreme Islamist organisation that won an election 18 years ago in Gaza – and there have been none since. As a faction, it was tolerated by the occupying Israeli regime in Gaza because it seemed to weaken the Palestine Liberation Organisation / Fatah influence on the West Bank. Hamas no more equates to the Palestinian people today than the Provisional IRA equated to Catholic nationalists in Northern Ireland throughout the Troubles.
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