Israel closing their embassy in Dublin *Read OP for Mod Warning added 19/12/24*

We had enough of a relationship with Saudi Arabia to have the Flag at half mast over the dáil when King Abdullah died.Yet we have no problem with them starving children in Yemen.

Our president sends a letter congratulating the Iranian president and we open an embassy in Tehran , yet we never speak out about the atrocities the Iranians committ.

All of this and more points to having a special obsession with Israel rather than a concern for human rights.

Ireland holding SA to account really did nothing though , the world wide condemnation of them is what done them in.

We should let the bigger countries in the EU with real power deal with the Israeli's and we should concentrate on fixing this country.I think it's a bit rich of this country which doesn't have any armed forces to be throwing it's weight around, we don't even do the bare minimum to protect our own country yet we're sticking our oar in about other armed conflicts.

I don't like how the Israeli's behave but it's quiet obvious that a lot of our politicians have a particular obsession with israel, we had Claire Daly and Mick Wallace defending China and Russia while they were MEP's yet they despise the Israeli's., it's not a particularly good look for a country which is supposedly concerned with human rights when such obvious contradictions can be pointed out.

Well if you really don't know what is said, here it is:

If there's nothing wrong with the letter, why did he (wrongly) accuse Israel of having "leaked" it to the public?

As for saying Iran is aiming for peace in the ME, unless that was sarcasm, it is a shocking lie for him to connive at with the Iranians.

(Or maybe you really do think Iran is working away in the background for peace??)

And I certainly don't see a single thing about Iran's own horrifying civil rights abuses. Do you?

From your link about his "discussion" with Xi Jinping:

"Although specific issues weren't outlined," 

LOL

(The Chinese take any criticism very personally, so there's no chance a minnow like Ireland would dare do such a thing to the Chinese Premier's face.)

Because unlike some other countries we can learn from history and make better decisions in the future. Child murder in another country might not bother you but you've no right to tell other people that they should turn a blind eye to thousands of women and children getting murdered. Defence of our own country is a different topic, we have more important things to spend money on.

THat's from 2022/23, and all he's really doing there is explaining how Ireland follows the EU directives on sanctions on Iran.

None of that explains how the president wrote a congratulatory letter to the president of Iran full of lies about Iran working for peace and without a word about Iran's treatment of its own citizens.

And then was so ashamed of his letter that he complained when Iran made it public, and even accused his more natural enemies, Israel, of being the ones to have made it public. Presumably because he knew it would damage him, and he couldn't believe those nice Iranians would have done that to him. After all he does for them!

You may not care but President Higgins cared enough to accuse Israel of publishing it in order to damage him.

Which is weird if it's just a standard letter.

Especially as they hadn't done it - it was Iran - which shows that it was worth something to Iran to have received it. Again, that shows it wasn't just a standard letter.

The person I was replying to said we never say anything. That is far from the truth. We have supported every sanction placed by the UN and EU. And we did more. We cosponsored motions, we condemned the actions of the government.

So now the bar is what have we said and done in the last what, 5 minutes?

This is from the 1st October this year.

https://www.gov.ie/en/press-release/076d3-statement-by-the-tanaiste-on-irans-attack-on-israel/

From April.

https://www.gov.ie/en/press-release/0d70a-statement-from-the-taoiseach-following-irans-attack-on-israel/

Joint statement from April.

https://usun.usmission.gov/joint-statement-on-the-islamic-republic-of-irans-attack-on-the-state-of-israel/

So, can we leave the whatabouttery. Ireland has consistently condemned the Iranian government.

So now, Israel has said that Ireland is antisemitic. It's said that our government is and has even said that its people are largely antisemitic. That's why they're closing their embassy. BTW, I posted this earlier, over 70% of Ireland's population support sanctions against Israel. Tell me, do you think we're all antisemitic? Do you think we all hate jewish people? Do you think there's actual antisemitism? You think that the irish government, and 70% of the population, hate jewish people just because they're jewish

What!?

The vast, vast majority of people in Dublin do not give a darn if people are Jewish!

This is a really scary narrative and sounds that you hope there is problems!

My god I've heard it all now. This is close to stoking a fire if not just an attempt at portraying Irish people as antisemitic and encouraging fear and hatred where none belong.

As for whopping and hollering? Huh? Where? What's my opinion also?

To answer you question: No we should not just support Israel. While we should make our principled stance clear, we should also make our abhorrence of Hamas and Hizbollah crystal clear, and also warn that we must never let our position be taken as a denial if Israel's right to exist and always be explicit in our condemnation of anti-Semitism.

Ireland hasn't woken up to the fact that the US and Europe are turning right and are on the opposite side of this to us. Austria, Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands etc have all turned or have a good chance to turn right soon. Ireland could have very few friends within the EU very soon if we keep pushing this. We are already not the most popular due to our corporate tax system and our unwillingness to engage in any defense pact

we are neutral.
we are not supporting any side. We are recognising both sides and asking that ones stops committing war crimes

A lot of the EU is much more neutral on this than we are, most of them call for a ceasefire without going foolhardy into recognizing a Hamas led country