Hamas strike on Israel

still don’t see what this has to do with Victoria Starmer.

It's actually something to watch you describe a planned and coordinated colonisation of a country with regular migration. It would be akin to describing the Scottish protestant settlement of Ireland in the 1600's as migration, probably why their ancestors are among the biggest supporters of Zionism.

The western governments forsaw the trouble but dismissed or ignored their own reports due to Zionist pressure.

"1. The 1930 Hope-Simpson Report (UK)

• Context: Commissioned after the 1929 Arab riots in Palestine.
• Findings: Warned that Jewish immigration and land purchases were displacing Arab tenants, and that economic absorptive capacity was being exceeded.
• Outcome: Although public, its findings were largely dismissed. The subsequent Passfield White Paper (1930), which endorsed its concerns, faced fierce Zionist opposition and was eventually undermined by a letter from PM Ramsay MacDonald (often called the "Black Letter") reassuring Zionists.

2. The 1937 Peel Commission Report (UK)

• Context: Investigated the causes of the 1936–39 Arab Revolt.
• Findings: Recognized deep-rooted Arab opposition to Zionism and concluded that partition might be the only solution.
• Outcome: Though it laid groundwork for partition, the British ultimately shelved the plan due to Arab rejection and Zionist dissatisfaction with the proposed territory.

3. The 1946 Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

• Context: Formed to assess the political, economic, and social conditions in Mandatory Palestine post-WWII.
• Findings: Acknowledged Arab fears of Jewish domination, criticized Jewish underground violence, and recommended allowing 100,000 Jewish refugees into Palestine while maintaining Arab rights.
• Outcome: Recommendations were not implemented. British and American governments found them politically unworkable amid intensifying Zionist lobbying and Arab opposition.

4. U.S. State Department and Intelligence Warnings (1940s)

• U.S. diplomats such as Loy Henderson and George Kennan warned of severe repercussions for U.S. interests in the Middle East if full support was given to Zionism or the creation of a Jewish state without Arab consent.
• These warnings were often overridden by domestic political pressures, especially in an election context where Zionist lobbying had significant influence.

Was There Suppression?

• Active suppression? In a few cases, yes — particularly when reports or policies conflicted with prevailing political aims. The Morrison-Grady Plan of 1946, for example, was quietly dropped after Zionist opposition, even though it reflected U.S.-UK consensus.
• More common: Reports were published or acknowledged but politically ignored, undermined, or walked back under pressure.

Conclusion

Yes, both governments had early assessments that foresaw the long-term instability caused by unbalanced Zionist settlement in Palestine and warned against it. However, geopolitical interests, wartime alliances, lobbying power, and public opinion in Western nations led to those warnings being overridden, muted, or ignored — setting the stage for enduring conflict."

Have they? Most likely given the conflict.

My answer is this colonial project was doomed from the start and everyone knew it.

No Mark, no matter how you try to compare members of a religious extremeist colonial movement with migrants it won't work. I suppose you could classify Putin's troops as adventure tourists going on that take.

I’m not interested in playing the “if you don’t think like I do you must be a Zionist genocidal killer” games thanks.
Ireland could put a ban on all imports from Israel anytime it likes. It is pressing ahead with the occupied territories bill, so why not a full ban on Israeli imports?

When Intel realize they can’t take advantage of Irish tax loopholes and will have to pay tens of millions in extra tax, I’m pretty sure they will be piling the pressure on Israel and the US to put things right.

So Jews migrating to Palestine were NOT migrants…?

The comparisons with Putin is laughable.

Polls suggest that the Israeli public are fully behind the slaughter

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/majority-israelis-support-expulsion-palestinians-gaza-poll

An overwhelming majority of Israeli Jews support the transfer of Palestinians from Gaza, according to a poll by Pennsylvania State University.

The survey, conducted in March and published by Haaretz newspaper on Thursday, found that 82 percent of Israeli Jews support the forced expulsion of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.

Meanwhile, 47 percent of Israeli Jews answered yes to the question: "Do you support the claim that the [Israeli army] in conquering an enemy city, should act in a manner similar to the way the Israelites did when they conquered Jericho under the leadership of Joshua, ie to kill all its inhabitants?" The reference is to the biblical account of the conquest of Jericho.

I think the only thing stopping Israel from doing worse to the Palestinians isn't Israeli public opinion, but rather international opinion.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/breaking-with-pm-74-of-israelis-back-war-ending-deal-to-free-all-hostages-poll/

Israeli government ministers who Netanyahu is completely reliant on to stay in power (and by extension, stay out of jail) are openly talking about the forced displacement of 2 million Palestinians, herding them into a concentration camp or evicting them from their own land but Mark in Ireland says it'll all stop once the hostages are released.

You said the below in response to another poster. It is actually beyond pathetic now. What you posted is not fact. It is opinion. And the longer it goes on and the more desperate your arguments get, I am starting to believe it is not even your opinion anymore either and you're just sticking to the party line, regardless of how ridiculous it looks.

The Israeli military want the war to end as its soldiers and reservists are exhausted.

But you are free to believe what you want, but you are not entitled to your own facts.

If you think that the oppression of women in the Middle East is only on a par with Ireland of 30 years ago, you have some serious blinkers on. A Palestinian court ruled only a couple of years ago that an adult unmarried woman couldn't travel abroad without the permission of her brother. The laws on hijab in Iran provide for execution. Women aren't allowed drive in many of those countries. Ireland never had laws or culture as draconian as those.

It seems that the only people in the world excusing and justifying Hamas continuing to hold onto the hostages are on this thread.

I have been saying this for pages now, there is a real opportunity for lasting peace if Hamas do the right thing and surrender.