Looking on from the safety of Ireland, I feel frightened and disempowered. But I still believe in peace
Looking on from the safety of Ireland, I feel frightened and disempowered. But I still believe in the possibility of a lasting and just peace based on a two-state solutionAn aerial view of the music festival camp attacked by Hamas gunmen near the Gaza border in Israel. Photograph: Sergey Ponomarev/The New York Timesseems to teeter on the edge of catastrophe, it is difficult not to feel like a frightened and disempowered spectator, looking on from the sanctuary of Ireland.
Orla Tinsley: I’d like to be telling you about my dream life, but here’s a nightmare from Ireland’s health system insteadThe Israelis are not committing genocide and they are not Nazis. For some, the pain of the individual is not acknowledged if it belongs to a Jew The paradox for Israeli Arabs is that, as citizens, they enjoy more individual rights than anywhere else in the Arab world
If Israel insists on going to war with Hamas, it will cost countless lives and will not provide the security it requires If Israel insists on going to war with Hamas, it will cost countless lives and will not provide the security it requires. The cycle of violence can end now, but it requires the political courage of a lion – or a pride of them.