Senior ministers concerned about effects of Occupied Territories Bill.

Interesting that some posters here put their bank balances above children being murdered. That's a strange set of priorities some of ye have.

I'm glad to live in a country where even the most conservative and traditionally pro-business pro-establishment mainstream party, Fine Gael, has a moral conscience.

Folk like you and the nutter you quoted, who I blocked long ago, are the outliers. Your dreams of getting in some kind of far right Trumpist/Faragian government here aren't going to happen.

Because basically, it's just racism/Islamophobia and favouring brute force over human rights. Logic is not of relevance here. The cover story of 'oh, won't someone please think of the economy' is just that.

Many years ago, Noam Chomsky predicted that the main impact of 9/11 would be to re-inforce the most authoritarian agendas on the planet. Unfortunately while I would disagree with him on a lot, he's mostly been proven right on that prediction.

Thats because both cohorts (or the same cohort really) are dumb.

They are the sort of people who would make common purpose with Loyalist drug dealing gangs in the sink estates of the 6 counties, who have been known on many occasions to fly Nazi banners alongside the Star of David and their own British coloured gift shop tat, without a hint of irony.

So don't try and fathom it. You simply cannot argue with stupid. So don't. Just ignore them as the chaotic irrelevance that they are.

So the metric of showing your against genocide is emptying your bank account and putting your family in penury, anything less is virtue signalling I guess. Always with the hyperbole, "move to Gaza then", "donate your entire life savings so" "you house the refugees in your home"

If people start to lose their jobs because of this bill then yes they will take a massive hit to their incomes and have to sit on the dole

I can understand how far lefties sitting on the dole already and welcoming half the world to move to Ireland would say “so what”

What’s happening in Palestine is absolutely terrible but nothing here actually in any concrete way shape or fashion helps the Palestinians while causing divisions here and potentially much worse

Not able to participate in civilised debate are we now?

Neither do I have time for left wing lunacy, ping me once you have a photo of a receipt for a pack of taytos from your local and I’ll do same

that’s actually a very good point

Empathy is exactly what all the Muslim arab countries surrounding Palestine lack

Here is Egypt using from gas from outside Gaza while blockading them

Raving Marxist Leninist, no doubt a hidden anti-semite also, Sir Desmond Swayne, asks a question:

https://x.com/DesmondSwayne/status/1939664063593611638?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

I doubt the lefties realise the fire they are playing with here. Their clamor to be the most Pro-Palestinian in class plays with forces they barely recognise. It will do nothing bar reaffirm the anti-Semite tagged we've been wrongly labelled with. It wont save a single Palestinian life yet it will jeopardise the prosperity of future generations of Irish workers. This may be the single most stupid thing I've ever witnessed an Irish government threaten to do. Build a 10ft radiator & loose this bill down the back of it.

The recent terror attacks are vastly Islamic. I’m not discussing regional conflicts from our past that were settled. The current terror attacks are all imported, even if settled for a generation or two and are designed to have a maximum body count.

I think he has a point.....all terrorist attacks were Islamic (if you hand wave away the ones that weren't).

It wasn't terrorism when it wasn't them, it was just regional conflict....