Government echoes EU position in seeking to be even-handed and attempting to reflect both sides of dispute
The Taoiseach has 'condemned unequivocally' the bombing of a Gaza hospital, adding 'it might yet prove to be a war crime'. Video: Oireachtas TV, most of the speakers were very clear about whose side they were on. Some opposition TDs wore the keffiyeh, the distinctive Palestinian Liberation Organisation scarf, once beloved of teenage radicals.militants.
But there were differences, significant differences at times between Government speakers and opposition representatives. That division has simmered since the conflict erupted last week — the Government, echoing the EU position once it settled on one, is seeking to be even-handed, to reflect both sides of the dispute, to support both Palestinian rights and Israeli security. The problem is these two things are in conflict right now.
Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin opened for the Government and, in the course of a lengthy speech, reiterated the expected lines — recognising Israel’s right to defend itself but simultaneously insisting this could only be legitimately exercised in accordance with international law. Ireland understands, she added, “the playbook of the coloniser, the occupier and the oppressor”. McDonald did not say the Jewish people have more than a little experience of dispossession and oppression, conflict and suffering. Nobody else did either.
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