Senior ministers concerned about effects of Occupied Territories Bill.

There is a sneaking regarder element in Ireland that has sympathy for Islamic terrorists because they take on the British and the Americans.

What is most surprising to me is that among the many many posters on here demanding that Ireland put in place an OTB, there is isn't a single one calling for something that our government could actually do here in Ireland - intervene with our cricket board and tell them if they play Afghanistan (ruled by Islamic misogynists who have banned women from education and banned windows in kitchens), that they will withdraw funding for the National Cricket Centre.

However, oppressed Islamic women and children are only a concern when they are being oppressed by Brit and American-loving Israelis.

Poor old Robbie Keane gets hatemail for working in Israel, but our cricketers can play Afghanistan five times a year without a peep from the usual crowd.

True, historians have put terms on things retrospectively.

It still doesn't mean you should say that two things going on in completely different circumstances, different times, with different methods of war, huge differences in capabilities (not to mention the fact that one side doesn't have an army) are the same thing as the allies bombing German cities, and therefore what is happening couldn't be genocide.

And are Hamas not a terrorist militia 'governing' a small strip of land in the middle east? Do you think a group of this size and of this persuasion are capable of duping the UN, the ICC, the ICJ, Amnesty, etc etc?

To be fair to the English, their cricket team is refusing to play Afghanistan in bilateral series, as are Australia.

They have to play them at World Cups and the like because countries like Ireland don't support a wider boycott.

The Irish played seven matches against Afghanistan last February and March, without a peep from anyone.

the first sentence isn’t at all baseless. Huge amount “fake” support in Ireland for Palestine because it’s seen as the big bad bad British (backing Israel) against the poor oppressed Palestinians.

It’s as much an anti Britain stance as an anti Israel stance. Anti U.S. as well. These so called supporters wouldn’t last a wet week living under the Palestinians way of life

How angry are you at what Hamas has brought upon the Palestinian people?

The irony of this sentence...

in the culture and religion of these Islamics on other hand they treat half the population as subhuman

..when you are, for whatever reason, continue to use Islamist terrorism as a reason to view innocent civilians being murdered in Gaza as somehow not worthy of any concern, and somehow to blame for their predicament. In doing this, you yourself are treating them as less than human, so your no better than the islamic fundamentalists you are so obviously pretending to bemoan.

Anyone who shows concern are given a hundred and one reasons why they shouldn't, or why they are wrong to, or that they are virtue signalling or whatever horsesh*t reason or whatsboutery you pull out of thin air to try to get people to ignore what is going on.

FFS you set up a thread on another genocide not because you give 2 f's about it, but to bring attention away from this one. It is bizarre.

Why do you care this this war has gotten people's back up in Ireland, so much so that your are appearing in some roundabout way to defend genocide (which you so casually called "stupidity" on Israel's part in a previous post)? It's a pretty extreme position to take.

Ah yes a cause of not wanting war crimes to continue. What a sad lot we are to be against that.