37,000 Palestinians applied for EU protection
The resolution also demands the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza.
Famine imminent
It’s another instance of our leaders passively admitting something in their actions that they cannot say with their words: That Ireland’s stance on Gaza – whether it is morally correct or incorrect – is politically toxic in the United States,
The obvious question is whether artists who travel to Texas to attend a festival are entitled to taxpayer funding for their flights and accommodation when they then decide not to bother playing at the event – the whole reason we were funding them to go in the first place?
There is protest, there is symbolism, and then there is childish student union politics without thought to diplomacy. Not the for the first time, from Holly Cairns, this only fits one of those categories.
If you view the war not as a conflict between rational actors, but a conflict between a rational state and a death cult, then it all begins to make more sense
That’s two of the media’s top two topics – Gaza and RTE – barely registering with the electorate at all, while the voters care about things that have been shunted significantly down the news agenda.
International allies
The Israelis, I’m afraid, do not always make life easy for their friends.
“Many of these textbooks promote explicitly anti-Jewish and anti-Israeli rhetoric to very young people”, Mr Lindsay said
Ultimately, none of this will impact the outcome of the conflict one way or another.