Irish MP says Israel systematically killing palestinians for decades!

November 7, 2023

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To gain a better understanding of the frustrations and deprivation that led to the horrific and inhumane attack by Hamas on Oct 7 we must all consider the factors underlying such an attack. No one has says it more eloquently or succinctly than Irish MP Matt Carthy who recently addressed the Irish parliament, listing Israel’s transgressions. Those violations include the following:
* Israel has breached International Law not only on Oct 7 but virtually every single day for decades.
* Israel occupies Palestinian land against Intl Law
* Israel blockades Palestinian territory against Intl Law
* Israel builds and expands illegal settlements against Intl Law
* Israel enforces an apartheid system that restricts movements of Palestinians and denies their fundamental rights against Intl law
* Israel regularly and systematically attacks and kills civilians against Intl Law.

MP Carthy went on to criticise world leaders who stood behind PM Netanyahu and Israel condoning its “right to defend itself” stating that by doing that they gave Israel the license to bomb civilians, schools, hospitals and civil infrastructure and the license to displace more than 1 million Palestinian civilians and deny them humanitarian aid virtually imposing a death sentence upon the remaining civilians.

We applaud and respect brave politicians like @mattcarthy who are bucking the trend to stand up for TRUTH and JUSTICE.

#ceasefirenow #FreePalestine #Interfaith #StandWithUs #Truth #Palestine #Gaza #Humanrights #BoycottZionist #AntiZionismisNotAntiSemitism #palestine #gaza #Israel#newzealand #Gaza #ceasefirenow #Jordan #SaudiArabia #UAE #Morocco #Bahrain #Kuwait #Lebanon #Syria #Iraq #Oman

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English Script:
IRISH PARLIAMENT ADDRESS ON PALESTINE

Let us be very clear. Hamas breached international law on the 7th of October. Hamas targeted innocent civilians in the most callous and inhumane manner, and their actions have been rightly condemned by right thinking people across the world.

00:06:19:23 – 00:06:55:03
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But we should also be very clear. ISRAEL has BREACHED international law not just on every day since October the seventh, but virtually every single day FOR DECADES. Israel occupies Palestinian land against international law. Israel blockades Palestinian territory against international law. Israel builds and expands illegal settlements against international law. Israel enforces an apartheid system that restricts the movements of Palestinians and denies their fundamental rights against international law.

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And Israel regularly and systematically attacks and kills Palestinian civilians against international law. So, the question that must be answered by all of us in political life is this. How does the world respond to flagrant abuses of international law? When it comes to the horrendous war crimes of Hamas, the response was very clear and very consistent. World leaders queued up to say Israel has the right to defend itself.

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One after another repeated the words the great and the good, including our government. Israel has the right to defend itself, repeated in statement after statement, tweet after tweet, despite the full knowledge that those words have become contaminated, the words Israel has the right to defend itself means in practice that Israel takes that right as license to bombard civilians, to bomb schools, hospitals and other civilian infrastructure.

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And has now been taken as license to enforce the displacement of 1 million people from one end of an open-air prison to another. To deny food, energy, medical supplies to a besieged civilian population, to actually deny them water, to ensure that children, the sick, the disabled, the elderly will literally die of thirst. Israel has the right to defend itself, has now become cover for Israel, has the right to commit genocide right in front of our eyes.

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How come we never hear the words Palestine has the right to defend itself? Not when a humanitarian flotilla bringing essential supplies to Gaza is met with a military assault and the murder by Israel of nine unarmed activists. Not when Palestinians march in peaceful protests against illegal blockade and are met again with a military assault and the murder of 300 of them.

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Not after the countless bombings of Gaza by Israeli forces, not even when Israel targeted and murdered four little Palestinian boys playing football on a beach and not when Palestinians were dragged from their homes and forced to watch as those homes were destroyed to allow for a new illegal Israeli settlements on lands that are clearly defined in international law as part of Palestine, and not after the countless offensive attacks by Israel against the people of Gaza or the West Bank,

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have we or any, heard anybody in this house or any Western leader utter the words Palestine has the right to defend itself. And why not? And by the way, I’m not asking you to say those words. And in fact, it’s just as well you do not, because we all know that the people of Palestine cannot defend themselves, not against one of the most powerful military forces in the in the world that is backed up by even more powerful military forces.

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The truth is that the people of Palestine, just like the innocent people of Israel, do not need the international community to tell them that their leaders have the right to inflict more bombings, more pain, more suffering. They need the international community to say, STOP, to say release the hostages, to say STOP the bombings, the SIEGE, the SLAUGHTER. They need the international community to tell Israel to STOP the BLOCKADE, STOP the APARTHEID, STOP the ANNEXATION, to STOP the GENOCIDE.

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And they need countries, Tarnisha, to lead the way. And Ireland should be one of those countries that leads the way. We know colonialism. We know oppression. We know conflict. But we also know conflict resolution. We know peace building. We know nation building. And because of what we know, what our history has taught us.

Our call tonight must be clear.
Immediate, full and UNEQUIVOCAL CEASEFIRE and a decisive international intervention that leads to NEGOTIATIONS and to a lasting and JUST PEACE SETTLEMENT and to at long last, to a free, sovereign and INDEPENDENT PALESTINE.