In the conflict between the secular liberal democracy of Israel
and its reactionary religious totalitarian enemies Hamas, Fatah, Hezbollah, Syria and Iran,
the western left, for some reason,
has sided with the religious totalitarians.
The Irish left follows the rest of the western left in this bizarre prejudice,
which seems to be based on
western self-loathing
rather than on logic
and standing with people like us.
Hezbollah flag openly displayed at IPSC march, Dublin, Apr 2008.
From here.
Attending this demo which contained open support for Islamist terror were
David Norris,
Michael D. Higgins,
Eamonn McCann
and Mary Lou McDonald (of SF-IRA).
Do they not notice this kind of thing?
Do they not know what the Hezbollah flag looks like?
Ireland strongly opposed the
building of the life-saving
Israeli wall
in 2003.
FF governments were consistently pro-Palestinian throughout the 1980s (and since).
FG was little better.
Labour was even worse.
The Irish taxpayer has been forced to send money to the Palestinians
through the UN since 1959,
and directly since the 1980s
(and still today).
It seems that some of our money has been used to pay for
hate-filled schoolbooks
that promote jihad and Islamic terror.
Ireland was the last EU country to grant permission (in 1993)
for an Israeli embassy.
PLO terrorist dictator
Arafat
made an official visit to Ireland (1993)
before any democratically-elected Israeli prime minister ever did (1996).
The PLO terrorist even spoke before the
Oireachtas foreign affairs committee.
Arab Crimes Against Palestinians Overlooked,
Rory Miller and Alan Shatter,
Irish Times,
15 Aug 2006
- on endless Irish criticism of and demos against Israel,
yet silence on far greater killers, including the non-Israeli killers of
Palestinians.
Hyperlinked by Tony Allwright.
"The truth is that Israel's use of military force, combined over the 60 years since its birth, has caused far fewer casualties and damage than war, conflict and oppression in Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Bangladesh, Bosnia, Burundi, Cambodia, Chad, Chechnya, China, Colombia, El Salvador, Eritrea and Ethiopia (and that's only the beginning of the alphabet; if we go to countries beginning with "I", there's India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq)."
"Why was the fact that King Hussein killed more Palestinians in the course of a single month than Israel managed to do in decades never held against him, or even raised, on his visits to this country?"
Irish politicians of all parties have a sorry record when it comes to the Palestinians.
Noel Davern (FF)
in the
Dail, 22 April, 1997,
compares Israel to the Nazis:
"What I fail to understand is that a people, so badly treated themselves in the course of the Second World War, and beforehand, can suddenly begin to treat others in almost similar fashion."
"Almost" similar, if we ignore the fact of rounding up millions of them for industrial gassing.
Oh, and the fact that Israel are fighting ruthless
terrorists who target their civilians.
(Whereas the Nazis attacked and killed the Jews of Eastern Europe
for .. no reason whatsoever.)
Bertie Ahern to Arafat, 3 May 1999:
"We will continue to support your just cause in every way we can."
Brian Cowen in the Dail,
13 December, 2001,
as Israelis are being slaughtered in
Arafat's intifada:
"the only way to end this dreadful conflict is to resume the peace process. There is no military solution".
This turned out to be rubbish.
There was a military solution.
Brian Cowen,
25 June 2003, says Arafat is
"the symbol of the hope of self-determination for the Palestinian people".
FF Senator Mick Lanigan
was presented with the Palestinian government's highest honour
by Arafat in Dec 2003
for his work in support of their cause.
When you read these awful Israel-condemning debates in the Irish Senate,
remember that Ireland is a country
that was neutral
during the Holocaust,
that sent condolences to Germany on the death of Hitler,
and that refused to allow almost any Jewish refugees in,
either before, during or after the war.
I don't at all think the Irish politicians are anti-semitic.
Rather, they have
a range of trendy reasons
for their views.
But I think Ireland - like most of Europe
- should shut up about Jews for a few hundred years.
Bizarrely, in June 2008,
Mary O'Rourke called for the dictator Mugabe of Zimbabwe to be shot.
"I think the only way he'd be got rid of is somebody shooting him.
I mean, I know it sounds stupid, but that is the only way. ...
Somebody should shoot him."
It's great that she said it, but then
why on earth did she oppose killing Yassin?
What makes Yassin in any sense superior to Mugabe?
Labhras O'Murchu of FF,
Irish Senate, 20 May 2004
- "The war crimes being perpetrated by Israel against the Palestinian people
will shock the world and will be seen for what they are. The Minister for Foreign Affairs
has been particularly forthright in support of the rights of the Palestinian people.
It is important for this nation, and for all nations, to impress on Israel
that of all the nations on earth, it should be wary about engaging in activities which could be perceived as being genocidal."
Terry Leyden of FF,
Irish Senate, 20 May 2004
- "we should make a request of the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Cowen,
who is now President of the EU Foreign Ministers and has been exemplary in his work on Palestine
and recognising the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination.
I suggest that we withdraw the special status that Israel holds in the eyes of the European Union.
A boycott of Israeli products should be undertaken."
Mary O'Rourke of FF,
Irish Senate, 20 May 2004
- "Senator Leyden wants the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Cowen,
as President of the EU Council of Foreign Minister,
to withdraw the special status afforded to Israel by the EU,
and calls for a boycott of Israeli goods.
.. Perhaps it is a point that could be considered."
Bertie Ahern
said Arafat was a
"great leader and a great man".
He absurdly described Arafat's death as tragic:
"It is perhaps the most tragic aspect of President Arafat's death that he did not live to see the fruition of his ambition of a Palestinian state
... He will be greatly missed".
Mary McAleese absurdly described Arafat's death as
"a tragic loss to the Palestinian people".
Even Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny talked anti-Israeli crap after Arafat's death.
What a dead loss Irish politics is.
Terry Leyden (FF) on Hamas, 4 July 2007:
"Obviously, Hamas is playing an important role in Gaza. It has taken control of the region and will prove a success there. It is the legitimate government of the West Bank, Gaza and Palestine, and should be recognised as such by the Government and the European Union. Hamas was elected to that position."
Shame on anybody who ever signed any of these petitions.
Irish politicians sign a
petition calling for sanctions against Israel, June 2004.
Of course, they all have signed similar petitions calling
for sanctions against
Cambodia,
China,
Cuba,
Egypt,
Iran,
Libya,
North Korea,
Pakistan,
the Palestinian Authority,
Russia,
Rwanda,
Saudi Arabia,
Sudan,
Syria,
Vietnam
and
Zimbabwe.
Of course they have.
Proinsias De Rossa (Labour).
Michael D. Higgins (Labour),
"signing on behalf of the entire parliamentary Labour Party".
Mick Lanigan (FF).
Terry Leyden (FF).
A load of people from the Greens
and from the violent group Sinn Fein.
Dennis Prager describes the
General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA)
as
"committing evil"
by calling for sanctions against Israel.
I agree.
They are on the wrong side of history.
Jew-hating
Israel-hating
freaks
ransack Israeli products in a French supermarket, Mar 2009.
They did this
right beside Drancy,
where the French in the 1940s
rounded up 65,000 French Jews (men, women, children and babies) for extermination.
One of the most annoying things about the anti-Israel lefties is they are not
content to just campaign themselves.
They want to force me to pay to support it through my taxes.
"Settlement", 2003.
A taxpayer-supported anti-Israel exhibition.
"This project acknowledges that artists are not 'neutral' beings, divorced from social and political realities, but often hold partisan viewpoints which are articulated through numerous and complex strategies."
Though, oddly enough, none of them hold a pro-Israel viewpoint.
The Israeli Consul General
said:
"I was annoyed that they mixed culture and politics and joined the anti-Israel bandwagon.
A gay and lesbian event is not just another festival,
gays and lesbians have fought for their rights,
events such as these should promote openness and dialogue, a boycott rules out dialogue.
A boycott ignores the fact that that
none of the other Mediterranean countries would even dream
of offering sponsorship for an LGBT festival.
They see scenes from Lebanon and think it means all Israelis are bad,
you wouldn't expect an arts festival to be so closed minded."
I am forced to pay through my taxes for this politicised body.
Ian O'Doherty attacks the vote:
"The fact that Israel is the least segregated society in the region,
and that Israeli Arabs enjoy more freedom than their counterparts
in other, Arab-run, countries is something that tends to be conveniently forgotten"
I am forced to pay through my taxes for this politicised body.
I am also forced to pay through my taxes for Irish and EU
aid to the vile Palestinian Authority.
Hamas brags about aid money "turned into weapons":
"Two years ago, one bullet in Gaza cost around €3.50 - now it would cost 35 cents. The American aid money has been translated into weapons. Thank you, America!"
I am forced to pay through my taxes for Palestinian "security" forces (i.e. Islamist terrorists)
and for indoctrination of hatred in
Palestinian schools and TV.
The Palestinian resistance (and much of the Arab world)
is openly anti-semitic and unashamed of it
(just see their TV
and schoolbooks).
The western leftists who support them claim not to be anti-semitic.
Often this is true.
Apart from the surviving remnants of old European anti-semitism,
there are a range of new, trendy
reasons why people support the Palestinians:
Raymond Deane of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Raymond Deane
defends
Hezbollah's July 2006 cross-border attack on Israel
(killing 8 Israeli soldiers, kidnapping 2,
and launching dozens of random rocket attacks on civilians in Israel,
injuring several civilians).
He describes Hezbollah's raid as
"the perfectly legitimate capture by uniformed combatants
of soldiers engaging in upholding illegal policies".
Raymond Deane, 19 June 2008, supports Iranian aid to Hamas!
"President Ahmedinejad has repeatedly expressed hopes for an end to the Zionist regime, a hope shared worldwide - including within Israel - by people of more impeccable democratic credentials than the Iranian president. "The provision of training and logistical support to Hamas" - nominally the democratically elected government of the Palestinian people - is to be welcomed as a small counterbalance to US and EU support for the murderous Israeli regime."
Desmond Fennell, 6 Feb 2009, suggests the world should arm the Palestinian Islamists with better weapons (planes, tanks, etc.)
with which to fight the Israeli liberal democracy.
This foolish intellectual
seems innocently unaware of the fact that if the Palestinians
had the weaponry, they would carry out a full-scale genocide of the Jews.
The only thing stopping them is not lack of will, but rather lack of ability.
John Pilger
is the classic example of this narrow world-view.
Only the desire to oppose the west
can explain the strange, highly-selective collection of
human-rights causes
the modern left supports.
This is why they almost never complain about Islamic or communist regimes,
for example.
Open support for Hamas Islamist terror at "Gaza Solidarity" March, Dublin, Jan 2009.
From here.
Also here.
Indoctrination in Hamas Islamist terror in Palestinian pre-school.
Sadly, it
looks like just another
pro-Palestinian-Islamofascist group.
They visit Lebanon and visit every anti-Israel activist and killer they can find,
yet no one pro-Israel.
They link to the website of the Islamofascist mass killers of women and children
Hizbollah
with the simple tag-line
"Resistance organisation in Lebanon".
The challenge:
Find any
pro-Israel, pro-gay or pro-atheist group
in the entire Arab Muslim world.
Other issues
The Irish "Peace" Society is
against violence by democracies,
but sympathetic to violence by non-democracies.
It has no problem with what they call the
"liberation" (what a joke) of Lebanon by Hizbollah,
but it
opposed
(and here)
the real liberation of Iraq.
They also
entertained
the
Cuban Ambassador
and the Pakistani
Ambassador
in 2003.
These
representatives of two non-democracies
were listened to with respect instead of abuse.
I note the Israeli, US and British Ambassadors were not entertained.
Their error was in being free democracies.
Some updates:
Congratulations to the Irish Peace Society for
protesting
the visit of the Premier of
China,
May 2004!
At last we agree on something!
Victoria Firmo-Fontan,
the "peace studies"
professor
who brought the students on the pro-Hizbollah
tour of Lebanon,
turns up in Jan 2005 wanting to be
"embedded"
with the
Iraqi fascist "resistance"
as they suicide bomb women and children
in their attempt to stop democracy.
Bruce Bawer
has a nice put-down of "peace studies" programs.
"For the Peace Racket, to kill innocents in cold blood is to buy the right to dialogue, negotiation, concessions - and power. So students learn to identify "insurgent" or "militant" groups with the populations they purport to represent."
"Peace" groups inevitably do not have any clue
how to actually bring about world peace.
Open support for Hezbollah Islamist terror at March to Israeli Embassy, Dublin, 10 Jan 2009.
March held by
Irish "Anti War" Movement
and IPSC.
Speakers included Chris Andrews TD (Fianna Fail).
From here.
Some updates:
Since 1995.
