Replying To PoolSturgeon: "This is the most niave post I have ever seen posted on HS or any other forum. It has the hallmarks of been written by a misty-eyed idealistic dreamer in his early teens but since it's here on HS, I presume you are actually an adult, as incredible as that may seem. The content is a full 180 degrees opposite the Trumpian world view but is just as equally simplistic and as much a fantasy as anything the Donald might utter.
First let it be said, you are 100% correct on one major point --- what is happening in Gaza truly is genocide and ethnic cleansing and the US and Israel are culpable of it. Only people who are of a hard/far right mentality could be blind to this. ( How ironic by the way, that the biggest supporters of Israel are Zionists who are on the hard/far right who are infused with Islamophobia and will brook no criticism of Israel ,considering the Nazi's were the ones who tried to exterminate the Jews!)
All true, but then you go on to to bemoan that "no action is taken against these countries" and say "it is very clear that Israel and the US should be sanctioned for these outrages" and castigate FF/FG for not doing so. Again, in a perfect and ideal world, you would be correct regarding the morality of sanctions but it beggars belief that you think Ireland under FF/FG or indeed any alternative government could take on the world's biggest superpower and it's number 1 ally and not suffer the severest economic retaliatory sanctions that would drive us back to the Stone Age. Remember in the US currently they are deporting pro-Palestinian protestors and defunding universities where strong pro-Palestian protests took place. So you would like us to do it in concert with the rest of the EU , is that it? That will take us far --- I presume you've heard the news about the Irish citizen pro-Palestinian protestors that Germany wants to deport because of their refusal to speak either German or English while conducting their peaceful protest?
The reality is that the Israeli lobby dictates US foreign policy. They did so under Biden and the Democrats and they are doing so in an even more overt way now under Trump. The only difference between Biden and Trump on this issue is that Biden engaged in the "strongly-worded letter" diplomacy of saying to Israel " ah lads, ye shouldnt be doing that -- but here's another 64 billion dollars worth of bombs and military equipment to do whatever ye want with it" whereas Trump is not even bothering with the "strongly worded letter" and is fully gung-ho with whatever Netanahu decides. The EU is on the same path and is hugely influenced by the Israeli lobby. The fact is that Ireland is an outlier within the EU (Spain excepted) in terms of it's implacable opposition to Israel's genocidal actions.
Ireland under FF/FG has recognised the state of Palestine for all the good it will do for the the people of Palestine or for Ireland. It may help us to feel good about ourselves but it is the ultimate in virtue-signalling because the idea of a 2-State solution is as dead as a dodo. Same goes for passing the Occupied Territories Bill - it would achieve absolutely nothing in real terms except give a nice warm feeling to people like yourself.
Netynahu has the perfect man in charge in the US now from his pov -- the Palestinians who survive and are docile will be tolerated and confined to reservations ,the same as the Native Americans were when they were ethnically cleansed, and the ones who rebel will either be murdered or dispersed to the EU as refugees. It was going to happen under the Democrats anyway , it's just that the process has been speeded up under the current administration."
I don't not understand your comment on the far right and Zionists. Zionists or Zionism is not related to the far right. Isreal was formed by the Zionists so to say they are their biggest supporters is a bit odd. If what you are suggesting is that some of the biggest supporters of Isreal are US Christian fundamentals or right wing European parties
Replying To zinny: "I don't not understand your comment on the far right and Zionists. Zionists or Zionism is not related to the far right. Isreal was formed by the Zionists so to say they are their biggest supporters is a bit odd. If what you are suggesting is that some of the biggest supporters of Isreal are US Christian fundamentals or right wing European parties"
Replying To zinny: "I don't not understand your comment on the far right and Zionists. Zionists or Zionism is not related to the far right. Isreal was formed by the Zionists so to say they are their biggest supporters is a bit odd. If what you are suggesting is that some of the biggest supporters of Isreal are US Christian fundamentals or right wing European parties"
Their blind hatred of Islam trumps any of their proclaimed beliefs
Replying To Viking66: "Maybe read up the history of temple mount?"
Rome destroyed the first Jewish temple in about 76 AD I think. Christian Crusaders conquered Jerusalem on and off-in the 10th, 11th and 12th centuries. They set up the Kingdom of Jerusalem. Eventually it fell to the Islamic empire. A beautiful building, the Al Asqua mosque and Temple mount stands there now. All that is left of the old Jewish temple is the Western wall, or wailing wall. Some fanatical Zionists want to tear down the Temple mount and build a 21st century temple. And probably start WW3 in the process. Christians have the "Church of the Holy Sepulchre" in the Christian quarter.