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THERE NEEDS TO be stronger controls introduced for the supervision of dogs in “upland areas”, a Fine Gael TD has said.
Deputy Andrew Doyle said that unleashed dogs in upland areas can pose dangers as “more and more people enjoy walking and rambling” in such areas.
He suggested that the law could be strengthened to protect animal welfare in upland areas as part of the Animal Health and Welfare Bill, which was brought before the Dáil by Minister Simon Coveney last week.
Serious consequences
Deputy Doyle said that the legislation which covers this area is at least 45 years old and needs to be updated.
Doyle added that it is important for people to realise “that there can be serious consequences when you let your dogs out; family pets can be turned into predators”.
The Dog Control Act says you must have control over your animal, and I think there needs to be tighter regulations on dogs in upland areas. ‘Leave no trace’ is the motto of Coillte, our forestry body. This is about much more than not leaving litter behind; it’s about respecting the rural environment and all that inhabit it.
He said that sheep can be particularly vulnerable to attack, and that alternatives to unleashed dogs “need to be explored through collaboration between all the main stakeholders”, including dog owners, farmers, walkers and legislators.
There are plenty of areas where dogs safely can wander without being on a leash, but this certainly does not apply to every open hillside in the country.
He said that the situation has become so extreme that many landowners in the Wicklow uplands “cannot leave their holdings during the summer, particularly at weekends”.
When they confront those in charge of these dogs they often meet hostility or denial of ownership. There are enough locations, including forestry land, where domestic animals can be exercised, within guidelines, and where they would not be a worry to sheep and farm animals.
The deputy suggested that if animal welfare is to cover animals that are subject to predatory behaviour by other animals, domestic or wild, “it should follow that the owner or the person responsible for the predatory animal will be guilty of an offence”.
Animal Health and Welfare Bill
Minister Coveney brought the bill before the house last week, saying that it “will lead to a consolidation and modernisation of much of the primary legislation in this area, some of which is over a hundred years old”.
Under the bill, the owners of all animals are required to provide feed for their animals, to provide adequate and safe housing and to provide veterinary care and protection.
The Bill draws a distinction between animals classed as “protected” – any animal under the ownership of individuals as opposed to animals in a wild state.
Protected animals are accorded greater protection than animals living in the wild as there is an obligation placed on the owner or person in charge to ensure that a protected animal is fed, sheltered and so on. However, all animals are “protected” insofar as cruel acts are forbidden.
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Words at this stage are not good enough.
IsraHell needs to be boycotted back to the stone age.
@Squarepeg01: you could try not start it in the first place. Take your foot of their necks for a start. Maybe then you might get somewhere.
@Daniel Muldoon: that’s not happening. Jews are the only ones who are forbidden from praying on the Temple Mount, and will be stopped by Israeli police – Israeli police! – if they try. The recent Al Aqsa ‘prayerful’ came stocked with stones and other projectiles to throw at police.
@Squarepeg01:
Israelis killed and injured are a fraction of the Palestinian victims.
Palestinians don’t have F35 fighter planes carrying massive bombs. They are unable to import arms due to the blockade by Israel and American puppet Egypt, so they are forced to make rudimentary rockets which rarely reach the target and are almost all blocked by the Iron Dome system gifted to Israel by American taxpayers.
@Shedonny: God, it’s like arguing with children on this site. What’s with this passive tense you’re using? ‘They are forced to make rudimentary rockets…’ Who is forcing them? Nobody. They are doing it themselves. Just live is peaceful co-existence with Israel and don’t try to stockpile munitions to attack it. That would end the blockade, problem solved.
@Squarepeg01: “peaceful co-existence” how can you have that when you a kicking people off their land and handing it to Jewish immigrants who are not even from the region. We seen that here in Nothern Ireland when loyalist gangs would burn catholic communities out of their homes, you are wasting your time trying to sell your zionist bull here.
@Daniel Muldoon: agreed. Loyalist thugs were doing that and they were wrong to do so. The question is, what was the appropriate response? John Hume chose the peaceful path and never deviated. Indeed, if the IRA had restricted themselves to defending nationalist communities, they might have had some justification for their existence. But they co-opted the civil rights movement and tried to fight an unwinnable war against the UK for some utopian dream of Irish unity, a totally different goal from securing justice in NI. At least they learned that their violence was getting them nowhere, though it took them 25 years to do so. Hamas have yet to learn that lesson.
@Donal O’Carroll: This is not about land, this is about never accepting that Jews can be allowed to live in peace in the region and must be driven out , and all the either uneducated or outright liars here who get their history from facebook take note this was already in place before the Jewish state was formed in 1948.
The Grand Mufti of Palestine
On November 28, 1941, the Mufti met with Hitler, who told him the Jews were his foremost enemy. The Nazi dictator rebuffed the Mufti’s requests for a declaration in support of the Arabs, however, telling him the time was not right. The Mufti offered Hitler his “thanks for the sympathy which he had always shown for the Arab and especially Palestinian cause, and to which he had given clear expression in his public speeches….The Arabs were Germany’s natural friends because they had the same enemies as had Germany, namely….the Jews….” Hitler replied:
@Squarepeg01: Israel has been oppressing Palestinians since the nabka….. Its been getting worse and worse over the last few years as Israel keeps taking more and more land out of the West Bank and East Jerusalem and handing to the settlers. The International community stands idly by while ethnic cleansing goes on before there very eyes and they ignore it. Shame
@Squarepeg01: International news outlets disagree and pointed directly to Netanyahu instigating this as a power play.
@Squarepeg01: there is a lot wrong with your comment. These people are without any power and slowly being crushed in their own homes. Israel has two options. 1 – end the apartheid limbo of the citizens of WB and Gaza and just officially annex Palestine. 2 – return to a reasonable set of borders and end the illegal settlements, then allow Palestine to exist as a real state. Israel does neither and so it should be made suffer. It’s a country filled to the gills with right-wing religious zealots (especially the youth). BDS has to be made a serious weapon. The EU needs to get it in motion. The grassroots liberal USA needs to push hard for it. It is a bloodless weapon. The turn-a-blind-eye Jewish boomer “liberals” funding this and lobbying will die off eventually.
@David Bohane: Yawn bloody yawn..go on cal.me Antisemic lol..
This is murder..
@Squarepeg01: Your a troll hasbara shill account..I mean why should I or anyone else take you seriously..
Any jobs going at the Embassy?
@David Bohane: Driven out..ffs are u having a laugh.. Your use of English is suspect..spare me the silly history lecture re Hitler he is well dead.
Isreal has been expanding and demolishing Palestinian homes and houses..Land grabbing and torturing.
Listen the game is up..the youth of America see what is going on and don’t like it.
ICC are going to fry Isra Hell..
@Shedonny: Absolute lies
While the names and designations of specific missiles can be a bit confusing, Hamas has a huge inventory of shorter-range systems like the Qassam (up to 10km or 6 miles) and the Quds 101 (up to about 16km); bolstered by the Grad system (up to 55km); and the Sejil 55 (up to 55km). These probably make up the bulk of its inventory and for the shortest ranges can be bolstered by mortar fire.
But Hamas also operates a variety of longer-range systems like the M-75 (up to 75km); the Fajr (up to 100km); the R-160 (up to 120km); and some M-302s which have a range of up to 200km. So it is clear that Hamas has weapons that can target both Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, and threaten the whole coastal strip which contains the greatest density of Israel’s population and critical infrastructure.
Source BBC website
@Squarepeg01: everywhere is a civilian area in Gaza – why because Israel has them imprisoned in a huge prison.
@Squarepeg01: Isreal is at fault here. It’s leaders have allot to answer for.
@Squarepeg01: are you having a laugh or just trolling?
@Squarepeg01: yeah. Why don’t those pesky Palestinians just live quietly in the mass concentration camp Israel built for them after stealing their lands and homes. Sure didn’t we even give them a lovely new wall, control their water and electricity supplies just in case they get uppity.
@Donal O’Carroll: about time they stopped using kid gloves only one thing terrorists understand…
@Squarepeg01: the IRA didn’t need to
Learn a lesson, they taught unionism and British that only an equitable society with the right to self determination is the only peaceful way forward. That is what the GFA promises. And like the Zionists, elements of unionism and britian are attempting to destroy that also.
@David Bohane: The Zionist Jew manifesto from 1897 calls for the removal of all non jews from their supposed ancestral home. ( Theodore Herzl) and from that moment on they have been on a mission from god to execute their sick vision for the middle east.
@M Bowe: The GFA only came about when the IRA knew they were beaten
@Squarepeg01: rte on prime time incited a one sided view!!
@Squarepeg01: yes they did and they are wrong but exactly how many reached anything … then compare to what Israel is going in return, and how they have been treating them for years.. the difference in conditions? They should know better from their own history. They are both wrong but claiming defence is a joke
@David Bohane: why are they not as deadly at killing citizens as Israeli armaments? Reports of msny falling well short of target – within Gaza – which therefore belies the inference that they have a arsenal of deadly weaponry at their disposal.
@Joe Travers: History post WW2 has proved that if Israel takes a soft approach to those who aspire to wipe them out they will pay dearly . Foot remains firmly on the neck for self protection.
Israel evicts long term residents to house illegal settlers, Palestinians rebel, Israeli forces attack with warplanes, Hammas retaliate with rockets, US back the warmongers, nothing new here.
@Charles Coughlan: YOU say they are illegal. The courts have a different opinion. Evictions are an internal legal matter, nothing to do with Gaza. Yet Hamas decides to initiate a series of military strikes on Israel, knowing full well Israel will retaliate. This is all on Hamas.
@Brian Lyons: Misinformation, this all started as soon as Israel decided to evict long term residents and illegally take their land.
@Brian Lyons: your wrong I’m afraid. There has been an ongoing and systematic campaign to displace Palestinian people by Israel for decades since 1948. Try educating yourself and look at the rate Palestinian lands have shrunk since then. So first thing in the list is generations of oppression directed by Israel towards Palestinian people.
@Jointheclubtoo: call things by their proper names. There is no genocide taking place anywhere in Palestine. If there were we would see significsnt drops in Palestinian population, whereas in fact the opposite is taking place. So either the Israelis are inept at genocide or it’s not taking place and you’re just buying into the lies of the same kinds of organisations that try to convince us that black peopke are oppressed by white supremacists in modern America.
@Squarepeg01: When they are evicting people just because they are Palestinian, that is ethnic cleansing. Isreal has stolen land and only to give it to Settlers (Jewish immigrants) whose claim on the land are suspect at best. Also, this is going through Israeli courts which for Jewrulism is illegal since it is an occupied territory and should go through international courts. Isreal is breaking the law and expecting to get away with it. BTW you ain’t going to sell that zionist shit here in Ireland, we lived under similar circumstances under British rule. We know what oppression looks like, we have over 800 years of history to reference.
@Andy mc Laughlin: sorry correction, systematic oppression carried out by Jewish settlers.
@Daniel Muldoon: there’s the thing – Irish people always make erroneous comparisons with British colonialism in Ireland, which even on their own terms is incorrect. ’800 years’ is just a lazy way of eliding over the complexity of Irish politics over the last few centuries – from Irish and Norman adventurism, to the role of the Reformation in defining communities, the impact of the transition from monarchy to democracy on how the morality of empire was viewed, and lastly the difficulties in fixing the problems following on from the legacy of the Ulster Plantation. But SF team players just want to reduce it to ‘Brits bad, and the Irish are helpless MOPEs’. Well I don’t have a lot of time for people who see themselves as victims and don’t do whay they can to become agents in their own right.
@Andy mc Laughlin: I didn’t say anything about the long history…he is wrong…the airstrikes did not happen before the Hamas rockets…
@Brian Lyons: I think the long history is as relevant and maybe more relevant to the current conflict. At what point in history do you think that the Palestinians should wait so they can have equal rights and not live in fear of being evicted from their homes. Commentators with a limited knowledge of the entire situation that spread disinformation lending support to the American backed IDF are one of the reasons Israel are allowed to bomb these people with impunity. Day to day life for Palestinian people and how they are treated has left them with no choice. Similarities to this can be drawn from Ireland’s recent past where the struggles of the oppressed irish gave way to the uprising in early 1920,s that has given us the freedom of the Republic of Ireland we all enjoy today.
@Charles Coughlan: Excuse me if I’m wrong but the USA are not backing Hamas
@Charles Coughlan: nothing new here ? … except that is not ,by a long shot , the full story . The aspiration, desire , vow to…whatever…wipe Israel from the face of the Earth is the dream of most Arab Nations . So far Israel has upset those plans since the foundation of their state and successful retaliated without hesitation and have assured the Arab world that Jewish people will never again allow themselves to be subject to attempted annihilation .
Only through strength can this be taken seriously , otherwise they would be vanquished long ago.
This is not a conflict, its a one sided slaughter, heading fast towards a war crime by Israel. They might feel superior and thick skinned to the world cos of US big brother having their back, but even that may not be enough to save them this time
@Michael Healy: Nothing new there, the Israeli state bathes in war crimes. It’s part of their identity.
If there’s any justice in the world we’ll hopefully see their downfall very soon. Otherwise it’s a very cruel and corrupt world to be a part of.
@Rochelle: the end of Israel would result in a mass slaughter of Jewz. You OK with that?
@Squarepeg01: So who do you work for? The embassy or the IDF???
@Rochelle: You’re down as being on the Journal site for six years and you’re only now noticing that “it’s a very cruel and corrupt world to be a part of”?
@Squarepeg01: both should be able to get along .. no end to no one ffs.. what is wrong with people? Why do people never learn …
So the 59 or 62 non combatant innocent lives lost only merit mention in paragraph 16. This devaluation of Innocent life in Gaza is a major part of the problem and puts media firmly behind Israeli apartheid regime.
@M Bowe: please explain how Israel is an apartheid regime. Gaza has been a self-governing statelet since 2004 – in effect, a foreign country. If it commits an act of war against a neighbouring country with a superior military, of course it’s going to get a bloody nose. But that’s exactly what the martyr-producing cult of Hamas wants, and they know Western liberals are suckers for images of dead civilians – civilians whose deaths Hamas knew full well would occur as a result of their actions..
@Squarepeg01: When you have two different laws depending on your ethnitisity it’s called Apartheid. Any Palestinian that stays in Isreal is subject to different rules than the Jewish. We seen it in South Africa, we have even seen in our own history so we know what it looks like.
@Daniel Muldoon: 20% of Israeli citizens are Arab and have reached positions of prominence in Israel such as members of the judiciary, the Knesset etc. Do the other 80% have Jewish privilege. Yeah, probably. To keep Israel Jewish, it’s probably inavoidable. And the reason Israel needs to be kept mostly Jewish is because if Jews tried to live anywhere else in the ME, they would be killed.
@Squarepeg01: So are you saying not every Israeli citizen are treated equally?
@Brendan Barry: in basic rights, yes. In some areas, eg property rights, probably not. Israel is not in Europe. It can’t afford to blind itself to certain realities. It needs to stay majority Jewish or its Jewish population risks being destroyed.
@Squarepeg01: So it’s not a democracy and discriminated against its minority is that it?
@Brendan Barry: is every irish citizen treated equally in Ireland!!
@Squarepeg01: Good God peggy, read over that comment again. You make the same arguments as the crazy far right Jewish zealots.
@Victor Feldman: yes, to the best of my knowledge, please inform me of any injustices
@Victor Feldman: if you want to organise a March against equality in Ireland let me know. In the meantime the Apartheid Israeli government have been found out and confirmed by their own https://www.btselem.org/
Disappointed with Joe Bidens statement…”Israel has the right to defend itself”…. what about the poor Palestinians who are being knocked left ,right and centre, and land taken from them beneath their feet. Turning a blind to that Joe…..and other world leaders too …Israel flicked the spark in this one that has turned into a massive fire.
@C_O’S: who fired first? Israel does attack hamas position. Do hamas take care not to target civilians?
@Tom Ripley: look at the numbers of civilian dead. Neither is approaching with caution
@Dave O’Keeffe: I’ve seen and yes tragic but hamas fire rockets from civilian positions or bring them in as Human shields for propaganda purposes. They fire well over 1000 rockets in just over a day. It’s not Israels fault they use technology to knock them out of the sky. Very impressive that iron Dome. No doubt saved many innocent lives. Hamas thought with their build up they could over saturate the system and kill many innocents, they were wrong on that count and losing many of their leaders. No a bad thing. Just pity civilians in Gaza die with those monsters
@Tom Ripley: ‘hamas thought they could kill many innocents’, Israel knew they would kill many more innocents, including children and did it anyway. In years there will be monuments of remembrance for the Palestinians who suffered under the genocidal Israelis.
@BradysASAccount: I’m sure their will be monuments to those that died. Absolutely correct. However it won’t be about non existent Israeli genocide it will be like Omagh those that died as a result of terrorism and religious fanaticism.
@Tom Ripley: who interrupted a religious ceremony? Who systematically discriminates a different religion and evicts and has evicted members of said religion to plant members of their own
The trump peace plan gave this region a good quality of life for many years.. now that he’s gone along with Biden’s stand back approach this area has descended back into turmoil.
Trump was not liked by many due to his poor rhetoric however he never created war, he only prevented it. Any American president who serves a term without creating war is a hero.
@Bill Bob: so you don’t think trump sticking a US embassy in Jerusalem, didn’t add fuel to the already growing fires in the region. And while trump didn’t cause any wars abroad, the kicker is he probably caused more civil unrest in his country not seen since the Vietnam War protests
@Michael Healy: Jerusalem is the largest city in Israel, logically makes sense.
Did he cause deaths no.. did he add fuel between Republicans and Democrats.. yes.. big deal. Comparing political opinions to deaths.. really?
Trump did well within this region, that’s something you should agree with.
@Bill Bob:
Jerusalem is not part of Israel according to international law, so how can it be its biggest city?
That is why the Irish embassy, as well as those of the other EU countries, are in tel aviv.
@Shedonny: what are you talk about ?Jerusalem is a city in Israel!
@Bill Bob: Trumps peace plan encouraged Israel to increase evictions and expand settlements…. The only peace was for the Israelis, peace to do whatever they wanted
@Bill Bob: “Jerusalem is a city in Israel!” – only because 1/2 was captured in 1948 – the West Jerusalem, and and the other half, East Jerusalem, in 1967 was annexed by Israel.
For what it is worth Wikipedia says “The international community rejects the annexation as illegal and treats East Jerusalem as Palestinian territory occupied by Israel”
Sadly the history of this conflict goes back to 1948 when the British Mandate of Palestine ended and the UN proposed a division of Palestine into Arab and Jewish States – that ended up in Civil war (sounds familiar) and continuous land grabs since.
It is hard to see a long term solution that is going to meet everyone’s needs outside of the creation of a secular state along the lines of the old Mandatory Palestine ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_Palestine)
Even before the 2nd world war the UK were trying partitioning “In 1937, the Peel Commission proposed a partition between a small Jewish state, whose Arab population would have to be transferred, and an Arab state to be attached to Jordan.” Whereas one of the Jewish leaders ” Ben-Gurion explained that partition would be a first step to “possession of the land as a whole”".
Nothing is ever simple and sadly people are loosing lives
I wonder if Israel didn’t have the backing of the Americans, would they be as brazen? Appalling behaviour
@aidan mccormack: The Irraeli/Palestinian has been going on for decades and is so complex very few of us really understand it in it’s entirety. Could Israel survive without US military and financial aid? Where has the $billions of aid given by both Middle Eastern and Western nations to Gaza gone, it’s clear they haven’t spent it on their infrastructure.
We could argue back and forth and never reach any satisfactory conclusion, it seems to me that those ruling Gaza care little about it’s people and use them as cannon fodder. They’re quite happy to launch missiles from heavily populated civilian areas in the hope they’ll be targed by Israel so they cause the devestation for political gain. Israel duly oblige. It’s unforgiveable for them to use such devestating weapons in civilian populated areas in the knowledge of the loss of life they’ll cause and they give half hearted excuses.Unforgiveable.
@Arch Angel: bullshit, hamas are horrible people and no one is defending them sending unguided rudimentary rockets into Israel, it is a war crime of a terrorist organisation but by bombing a densely populated country which has been blockaded on all sides from being one is a fair response? do you think indiscriminately bombing apartment buildings is not the biggest recruitment video for hamas? Can we stop seeing both sides as subhuman but people trying to provide for their families and the people they love, we can’t change the past but we can make a better future, the civilians on both sides are the ones that are forgotten
@Clanrickard: root out Hamas and then continue to forcefully evict Palestinians from their homes so that they can continue to inject Israeli settlers. At this stage Hamas is the only thing standing between Israel and a complete ethnic cleansing of the Gaza strip.
@GrumpyAulFella: what are you even talking about? Gaza is not being ethnically cleansed. Israel is retaliating to missile attacks on its territory. This whole eviction issue would not have involved Gaza at all if Hamas hadn’t unilaterally attacked Israel.
@Squarepeg01: He is telling the truth, Isreal has been trying to take over the whole region. We all know they want to have a Jewish state with Jerusalem as its capital. Because it is occupied territory they can’t do that unless they replace the Palistinain people with Israeli’s so the can claim that part of Jerusalem for Isreal. We can all see what they are up to, it is pretty obvious if you choose to look.
@Daniel Muldoon: yes, Israel would probably do that if it could. It would also take over Judea- Samaria if it could get away with it. These are human beings we’re talking about not angels. But here’s a thought: one good way for the Palesrinians to stop further encroachment on ‘their land’ would be for them to agree to the by now mythical 2 state solution. There would be inevitable sacrifices and land swaps on both sides but there would be hard borders and the Israelis would be gone from Area A for good.
@Squarepeg01: Absolute bullsh#t. The Israeli authorities need to be put on trial in the Hague for crimes against humanity – ethnic cleansing and apartheid. As confirmed by numerous human rights organizations.
Disgusting by is rael and worse from the rest of the world who stand idly by as more innocent people get slaughtered.
The time for action is now.
If the Muslim world turns on Israel, then we will have issues
@William Bryan: they tried that a couple of times. Didn’t end well for them.
@Tom Ripley: Won’t end well for anyone of this keeps up.
@William Bryan: And they will too, believe me
@William Bryan: And that… is the reason Israel stays strong … best form of defence etc… Arab war on Israel ended with Arab nations licking their wounds … as a normal person would say … they won’t try that again… but they did and they will do and Israel will show again and again that it is not for annihilation … ever .
Perhaps if the “International Community” stopped all trade with Israel and Palestine it might just force them to the table. And come up with a peaceful solution to implementing the two state policy.
What’s happening is not right. There’s no point in people calling for the “International Community” to take “action” without specifying what that “action” might be.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/GazaThroughMyEyes/permalink/2978011785811383/
Heart breaking for this Lady..
Team Hamas here. The Israeli terrorism is evil to the core.
@Cookie: Team Hammas?
Religious extremist fundamentalists who executed the leadership of their opposition?
Firing rockets at civilian targets is murder.
I’m all for Palestinian self determination but Hammas are a crowd of thugs.
@Ciarán FitzGerald: The Israeli Army is a murderous, religious terror organisation that murders civilians at will, so what’s your point.
@Cookie: no they are not. They are under the control of the democratically elected civilian govt, and respond as appropriate to acts of aggression on Israel. Hamas, on the other hand, were elected once in 2006 and haven’t given up power since. They routinely fire rockets into civilian areas in Israel and murder in the most gruesome fashion their own citizens who disagree with their policies as we saw in the 2014 conflict, when the bodies of so-called traitors were dragged behind motorbikes. A recent Hamas controlled court in Gaza ruled that women require the permission of a male guardian to travel, so there’s also their awful treatment of women to consider. That’s the side you’re pinning your flag to, but you go girl.
@Squarepeg01: First off, Hamas are bad. I think you can agree with that. A question though, do you have anything to say about the IDF killing children? I know Hamas use civilians as a shield. What do you think of Israel for shooting through that shield?
@Bill Spill: I don’t know the answer to that question. If it were up to me, I don’t think I could destroy those buildings. But that doesn’t make me more moral. Possibly, it just makes me weak. And since I don’t have anything at stake like the Israelis do – my family, my fellow citizens, my very country – I don’t have to make that call. Nor do I judge too harshly those who have been forced into a position where they did have to make that call by rational agents who had a choice on the course of action they took in response to the evictions in Jerusalem.
@Squarepeg01: It’s not weak to not kill children.
@Bill Spill: they weren’t trying to kill children.
@Cookie: team Israel here. ניצחון
@Cookie: right there with you !
@Tom Ripley: Troll your support elsewhere
@Ciarán FitzGerald: On a par with ISIS and Ak Quade
@Squarepeg01: They killed a lot of children. I don’t accept your ‘oops’ on their behalf. But you SURE are on their behalf, eh?
@Cookie: So you support Iranian backed Islamist fundamentalists
As the Israeli’s like to call it, mowing the lawn every now & again. There exact words.
The likes of Alan Shatter and the Israeli Ambassador condem the criticising of the Israeli State as anti semitic. This is taramount to saying any criticism of the state of Israel is anti Jewish. Conveniently ignoring the fact that as a people the Jewish population in Nazi occupied Europe suffered genocide at the hands of a Nazi regime. Do not Shatter and the State of Israel not realise they have now become the Same regime that sought to exterminate them. Criticising the Terrorist State of Israel is legitimate.
@Donal Desmond: did you imbibe as a child all the dark anti Jewish imagery in the NT.. And then imbibe all the anti Jewish imagery in English literature.. Could that have shaped subconsciously your attitude towards israel
@Victor Feldman: multiple wrongs don’t make it right
Oh my god all that black smoke can’t be good for the environment can it
@Liam Mc Meel: send Eamon Ryan out there he will stop the smoke and put a tax on them
@Marty Lawless: 2 complete tools above
@Charmaine ☘ Irish: that’s insulting to tools!
Washington cannot wash its hands of its complicity in supporting Netanyahu and moving its embassy to Jerusalem. It has empowered the subjugation of the Palestinian people for its own ends and political alliances. Biden has a lot to do.
Israel know the enemy only needs to be lucky once, and its the end for them
@Carl Lowry: if Israel ever adopted any of the policies Western liberals think they should, their Muslim neighbours would take advantage of their weakness and wipe them out. Then Western liberals would learn precisely the wrong lesson – they would say Israel had acted too little too late and got their cummupance, when in reality what would have happened is that Israel would have been an accomplice in its own destruction by abandoning the policies of vigilance that had kept it safe for decades. Meanwhile, Western liberals would get on with their lives without any self-reflection or loss of sleep while the Jews are slaughtered.
@Carl Lowry: You obviously mean the enemy
@Squarepeg01: So this excuses the deracination and repression of Palestinians?
Would it be possible for UN to CHECK all goods entering area so no missiles are entering region by land/sea?
@MrJohne: there is already a blockade of gaza by Israel and American puppet Egypt.
US will never give up the $3 billion a year to israel. Any US politician who votes for this will not be re-elected.
Absolute pigs
@Craig Barry: Are you talking about a farm
Shooting rockets more important then human lives, humanity has really really gone down the drain.
How so many Irish people are supporting israel is shocking, Thank god yous weren’t around when we were fighting for our own independence/freedom, otherwise the whole country would still be under British law! If you can’t see the similarities between ourselves and Palestine then give your head a wobble! I’m not saying I agree with hamas but what are they supposed to do? Just roll over and go live in the desert?what israel is doing is against so many laws, Just imagine this was Putin or Kim the Korean doing this? Oh the outrage!!
https://twitter.com/OrHeller/status/1392974678592000003
Confirmed: There is no Israeli troops that have entered Gaza… this is fake news… a tweet was misintrepreted and news agencies falsely reported this.
@Franky Jefferson: The official IDF Twitter account has tweeted saying they have ground troops in Gaza
@Jimbob Lucozade: They are attacking IN the Gaza strip…. from the border, they have not ENTERED the Gaza strip… the tweet was misinterpreted.
https://twitter.com/AmichaiStein1/status/1392977131311927298
So Israelis genicide continues
@Christy Mc Carthy: yep alive and well. They are masters at it now.
Humans never learn.
HOW can the so call super powers sit back and watch this genocide
May the fires of hell greet them.
@Mr Bordello: Who
There are NO Israeli military in Gaza!
I REPEAT, there are no confirmed reports of military in Gaza… this is a mistake
Good stuff
So sad,,, so stu p id, what a loss of life.
Hope fully they realise what they are doing is wrong and put a stop to what is going on
TROOPS AGNIES CIVILIAN
All these is because of the Communist and the partisans fighting against the German’s if not these will not happen today
have your say