Rights and Accountability 17 December 2024
Micheál Martin, Ireland’s foreign minister, insists he is not hostile to Israel. (Sebastian Barros / NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
Israel’s embassy in Dublin is accustomed to controversy.
Fourteen years have elapsed since “diplomats” stationed there forged passports used by a hit team with the spy agency Mossad so that it could travel to Dubai and assassinate Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a Hamas representative.
The episode is among countless reasons why Ireland should have expelled Israel’s ambassador long ago. Yet the Dublin government has repeatedly refused to do so.
Israel has now taken matters into its own hands by deciding to close the embassy. While that is good news, both the Israeli announcement and Ireland’s response present a false picture.
The embassy is allegedly being closed because Ireland has been pursuing “extreme anti-Israel policies.” Unfortunately, that is inaccurate.
Ireland has apparently gone too far in Israel’s eyes by formally supporting South Africa’s case against the Gaza genocide in the International Court of Justice.
Backing South Africa does not erase how Micheál Martin, Ireland’s foreign minister, followed a decidedly pro-Israel policy in the early stage of the war against Gaza.
Like all European Union governments, Ireland signed up to a statement implicitly presenting the extermination of Palestinians as defensive in mid-October 2023. Martin directly expressed solidarity with Israel the following month when he went on a propaganda trip arranged by the Israeli foreign ministry.
Ahead of last month’s general election, the government moved toward lifting its veto on the bill.
Martin has nonetheless insisted that amendments to the bill are necessary, which appears to mean that he wants it watered down. The Ditch website has revealed that he made the claim about amendments soon after receiving a threat from Claire Cronin, the US ambassador in Dublin.
Cronin (no relation of mine) had effectively warned that investment in Ireland would be harmed as American corporations are prohibited from complying with an “unsanctioned foreign boycott.”
Without disputing the authenticity of Cronin’s threat, Martin tried to brush the issue aside when it was raised in a parliamentary committee. He chose to attack the messenger by branding The Ditch “as much a political organization as anything else.”
The Ditch is a bona fide news outlet, doing real journalism. It reports facts that the establishment would prefer to ignore – such as how weapons destined for Israel are often flown through Irish airspace.
Important work?
Micheál Martin has ruled out any reciprocation in response to the closure of Israel’s embassy in Dublin. Ireland’s embassy will remain in Tel Aviv, he has stated, arguing that it does “important work.”
Large numbers of Irish people are certainly hostile to Israel and its racist state ideology Zionism.
The same cannot be said for leading businesspeople.
Patrick Collison, the Irishman who founded the payments firm Stripe, last month visited Tel Aviv, where he had confabs with various tech investors. The trip prompted the Israeli press to speculate about what opportunities Collison was exploring.
Understandably, Collison’s boast that he was enjoying himself in Tel Aviv provoked considerable outrage among defenders of Palestinian rights.
The state-owned Irish Strategic Investment Fund holds shares in Palantir, a US firm providing artificial intelligence technology that helps the Israeli military to select targets. As most victims in Gaza are women and children, Palantir is almost certainly enabling massacres.
Britain’s departure from the European Union had implications for Irish financial services. One implication is that it led Israel to choose Ireland to replace Britain as the host of the bonds which it sells throughout the EU.
As Israel’s bonds are a means of supporting the war against Gaza, Ireland is – as a host of those bonds – complicit in genocide.
Micheál Martin is telling just part of the truth when he says that the Irish state is not hostile to Israel. The more complete truth is that Ireland has maintained a friendly stance toward Israel as it slaughters and starves the people of Gaza.
The closure of an embassy doesn’t change that fact.
Comments
Keep the Embassies Open!
Permalink Vinny Paul replied on
Closing embassies is a childish petulant move, Israel has proven this and it will be damaging to their reputation internationally. Regardless of what acts are bring committed by a country, their ambassador should be retained in the countrv and wheeled out in front the media as often as possible. Dana Erlich ensured Israel had no credibility in the eyes of the Irish Public.
For what reason do people are talking about Israhell
Permalink Sam D replied on
There is an interesting book of self-promotion called "Jewish Humanism". We never suspected that humanism might have a nationalistic tinges/ undertones...
What’s the main reason for Jewish egoism and autism ?...
The Jewish psyche has been long poisoned by the mythological/ ahistorical Torah, it was also damaged by the Holocaust. Yet, in circumstances, Holocaust transformed into Fascism against those whose lands they took over (seized), at the instigation of the West. As we see, history doesn’t follow the Torah, it goes rather according to Darwin, Malthus and Marx...
A society driven by Megalomania and/or Persecution Mania is a sick society, it's extremely selfish, aggressive, despotic, despises "those who are not of our ilk", it hypnotizes everybody with fairy stories about its own exclusivity, fables about G-d's election/ chosenness, “Light to the nations”, but in reality it just parasitizes on others, exploits "those who are not with us", demands preferences and privileges...
Can a mentally normal Russian spend decades searching for who said what about Russians, and where in the world, or who harmed Russians in what way, as well as finance organizations and institutions that would deal with such a relevant problem, also trying to influence the policies and legislation of other countries in this regard ?...
(the term Russian can be replaced with Hindi, Iranee, Britt, German, Czech, Pole, Italian, Spaniard, Armenian, Chinese et al)
Besides Palestine and Lebanon, some Jews are scaring the world with an alleged “Russian fascism”, while the Russians are afraid of speaking out about Jewish fascism...
Sick psychology, perverted ideology, flawed religion: “Is there any other world religion that so unabashedly and gleefully attaches its name to war crimes such as the Palestinian or Lebanese, and trumpets these atrocities as righteous ?...”(Brett Redmayne-Titley)...
The Germans repented for their past crimes. Shall the Jews repent for theirs ?...
Re: "artificial intelligence"
Permalink Leo replied on
Re: "Palantir, a US firm providing artificial intelligence technology that helps the Israeli military to select targets. As most victims in Gaza are women and children, Palantir is almost certainly enabling massacres"
Well, everyone SHOULD of course get what AI is REALLY all about but most people CHOOSE not to want to understand it ...
Like with every criminal inhumane self-concerned agenda of theirs the psychopaths-in-control sell and propagandize AI to the timelessly foolish (="awake") public with total lies such as AI being the benign means to connect, unit, transform, benefit, and save humanity.
The official narrative is… “trust official science” and "trust the authorities" but as with these and all other "official narratives" they want you to trust and believe …
"We'll know our Disinformation Program is complete when everything the American public [and global public] believes is false." ---William Casey, a former CIA director=a leading psychopathic criminal of the genocidal US regime
The 2 major OFFICIAL deceptive fake FEAR-MONGERING narratives or phony pretexts (ie, lies, propaganda) nearly everyone, including "alternative news" sources, have been spreading is (1) that the TRULY big threat is that AI just creates utter chaos in society and that it might achieve control over humans (therefore it must be regulated, ie monopolized by the typical criminal governments); and (2) that we, the US, have to invest heavily in AI technological development so as to stay ahead of other nations, such as China (https://archive.is/pBzAt).
The TRUE narrative (ie empirical reality) virtually no one talks about or spreads is that the TRULY big threat with AI is that AI allows the governing psychopaths-in-power to materialize their ultimate wet dream to control and enslave everyone and everything on the whole planet, a process that's long been ongoing in front of everyone's "awake" (=sleeping, dumb) nose .... www.Covid
Two-way trade
Permalink Tirlagh Irwin replied on
The political posturing is impotence personified.
The Gardaí have acquired the latest facial-recognition surveillance technology from Palantir; "battlefield tested" they boast! More control for the freaks.
Quid pro quo.
The beleaguered and abandoned Palestinians don't count.
Is Ireland really anti-Israel?
Permalink Pamela Earl replied on
Bob Geldoff and Bono have been curiously quiet. Back in Feb 2024, a now ex friend of mine who is Irish, seemed to think the carnage was justified. Then there’s Graham Norton, who hosted Eurovision ‘24. Apathy is a different form of insidiousness.