Israel is slaughtering children in Gaza and that country’s ambassador to Ireland is complaining about “spats of hate” from Irish politicians.
As the Israeli military pound targets, killing dozens of women and children, Ambassador Ophir Kariv labelled comments from members of a Dail committee as “totally destructive”.
A poor choice of words as his country’s bombs destroy apartment blocks and kill innocent civilians.
Ambassador Kariv’s attempts to compare the conflict in his home country to the “complexity” of the Northern Ireland Troubles was also way off the mark.
“I think that one rule we can draw very confidently is the complexity and that anyone who approaches this kind of conflict must bear in mind things are not simple”, he said.
The families of the nine men and one woman murdered by members of the Parachute Regiment in the Ballymurphy Murphy Massacre would not find anything complex about their deaths. They were simply murdered in cold blood by psychopaths in army uniform.
Similarly, the relatives of the little children blown asunder by American-made munitions would find little complex about their deaths. They were in their homes and now they are dead.
Israel has played the complexity card successfully for decades when its barbarism is questioned and, when that fails to quell criticism, out comes their ace: anti-Semitism. It will probably be waved in my direction before this day is out.
While the history of the Middle East is indeed complex, what has been taking place in Israel and the Occupied Territories is terrifyingly simple.
On one side is one of the most militarised countries in the world which appears hellbent on subjugating the Palestinian people with the ultimate aim of creating a totally Jewish state.
Once Israel passed laws solely giving Jews the right to self-determination it as good as declared it was following the example of South Africa by taking the first steps on the road to an apartheid state.
It is hard to imagine any other country being allowed to confine two million people and have total control over its food and water supply.
Israel does and this goes largely outside criticism.
It has now cut off the oil supply to Gaza, leaving hospitals and homes without power by Sunday - but the world dare not impose sanctions.
In confining over two million Palestinians to the hellhole that is Gaza was not bad enough, Israel now wants Jerusalem cleansed of Arabs.
This is what has brought about the current conflict, it’s as simple as that.
Those who use social media will have seen the Israeli military break children’s bones and Jewish settlers burn and bulldoze Palistanian homes and olive groves but you won’t see it on the TV news, such is media’s fear of that anti-Semitic ace.
In a country like Ireland, where eviction is a particularly dirty word, we have to ask ourselves how we would react if Irish people were being thrown out of their homes which were being occupied by others who claimed the property as their own.
In the Dail yesterday the Tanaiste said the actions of the Israeli Government are indefensible and simply unacceptable.
He added: “Annexation, expulsion, plantation and the killing of civilians, deliberately or in terms of collateral damage, are not the behaviours of a democratic state in the 21st century and it is simply unacceptable that a democratic state or any state should behave in this way.”
Leo Varadkar also criticised Hamas for what it has done in “terror and in the violation of human rights of women and LGBTQ+ groups in particular”.
He is right, but unfortunately Israel’s actions only adds legitimacy to it as basically an Islamic terror group.
Solidarity TD Mick Barry and others are calling for the Israeli Ambassador to be expelled from Ireland, saying he represents “a state that is pursuing a policy of systemic racism”.
It’s time to send him packing and before he goes he should be asked whether they have any remaining fake Irish passports used by Israeli spies to carry out murders abroad.
At the same time, it is sad to see a once great nation embark on a path leading to a place South Africa found itself in the 1970s.
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