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The Embassy of Israel to Ireland has warned that calls to break trade links between Ireland and Israel fail to consider the impact on Irish businesses, “as well as any possible reciprocal measures that might be implemented as a result”.
Calls for Ireland to break trade links with Israel have been growing louder, as the conflict in the Middle East rages on.
On the same day that UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres described blocked relief trucks on Egypt’s side of the Gaza border “a moral outrage”, Labour leader Ivana Bacik told her party’s conference: “Now is the time for Ireland to break diplomatic and trade links with Israel.”
A spokesperson for the Israeli embassy said: "Attempting to disrupt trade between our two democratic states does nothing to help to stop the conflict or promote calm but instead has the effect of stimulating further division while targeting uninvolved parties.
Fuck Israel. The world should be making them a pariah state.
There should be heavily armed boots on the ground, wearing pretty blue helmets and outnumbering the IDF, and Netanyahu should be in a cell or under a pile of rubble.
But the things that should happen won’t, because the largest military power in the world is A-OK with genocide against brown people, as long as it lets them keep their military foothold in the region
I’m aware of the reality, must very frustrated with it.
Democracy is not a get-out-of-jail card for genocide.
I’m from the US of A and that statement counts as a terrorist attack
I agree with the Israeli spokesperson. “Targeting uninvolved parties” is their thing, Ireland can’t just storm in by force and appropriate it, that’s also Israel’s thing
Attempting to disrupt trade between our two democratic states
Since when was Israel democratic? Bibi and Likud have certainly made every effort to turn it into a theocratic totalitarian state.
Labour leader Ivana Bacik told her party’s conference: “Now is the time for Ireland to break diplomatic and trade links with Israel.”
Do it Ireland 🇮🇪
They probably won’t cut off diplomatic ties. There were a lot of calls to do it with Russia in 2022 after the Russian ambassador was interviewed on state TV and made an absolute show of himself and enraged the nation. There were months long protests outside the Russian embassy including constant red paint on the walls and one lad who drove his van through the gates.
At the time I wrote to the minister supporting the expulsion and was told it’s important to keep doors open yada yada.
Oh, no, is Israel afraid their lives may be inconvenienced by the actions of another country? What a terrible thing - wherever will they go for their life-sustaining, essential supplies of [checks notes] broadcasting equipment, computers, and integrated circuits?
“Israel warns Ireland” has some “Russia warns” vibes.
Don’t forget this bit from the article:
Trade Policy is an exclusive competence of the European Union. The legal basis for Ireland’s and the EU’s trade relations with Israel is the EU-Israel Association Agreement, which entered into force in June 2000.
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