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Call for Ireland to formally recognize state of Palestine
RTÉ News ^ | Monday, 15 May 2023 10:21 | Juliette Gash

Posted on 05/15/2023 5:27:33 PM PDT by Olog-hai

This is not a job. It’s a mission. A calling. That’s how Dr. Amal Jadou Shakaa, Palestinian Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, describes her role.

You might roll your eyes at a politician describing their job as a vocation. But perhaps not with Dr. Jadou. Firstly, young, female politicians are relatively rare in the Arab world, but also Dr. Jadou, who was a graduate fellow at Harvard Law School, was born in a refugee camp. […]

Dr. Jadou is calling on Ireland to formally recognize the state of Palestine, as agreed on by both houses of the Oireachtas.

“We want Ireland and other European countries that have not recognized [the state of Palestine] to recognize, and we also want the United States of America to recognize the state of Palestine, because this will salvage the two-state solution and this will infuse huge hope in the Palestinians.”

Last January, Tánaiste Mícheál Martin said in response to questions on Ireland’s recognition of Palestine: “In the absence of progress towards a two-state solution, I would be prepared to recommend to the Government recognition by Ireland of a state of Palestine, if and when it might be helpful, and this is a matter which I discuss regularly with EU colleagues. …

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TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; eussr; fartyshadesofgreen; fourthreich; ireland; israel; palestine; waronterror

1 posted on 05/15/2023 5:27:33 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Ireland has their hands full right now with “migrants” from Ukraine and Sub-Saharan African nations. I don’t think they give a feces about the Palestinians.


2 posted on 05/15/2023 5:30:52 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Olog-hai

Ireland has their hands full right now with “migrants” from Ukraine and Sub-Saharan African nations. I don’t think they give a feces about the Palestinians.


3 posted on 05/15/2023 5:30:52 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

This is the same government that let them in, so why would it be a concern of theirs over the all-important Fakestinian state?


4 posted on 05/15/2023 5:32:30 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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Never was such a country or people.


5 posted on 05/15/2023 5:57:41 PM PDT by SkyDancer (Hold on tight to your dream)
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To: Olog-hai

Ireland is barely sober enough to recognize Ireland... Why the hell would they ever recognize Palestine?


6 posted on 05/15/2023 5:59:38 PM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: Olog-hai

7 years of ‘Peace and Security’ are coming

🙏🙏🛐🙏🙏🛐🛐🛐✝️✝️✝️


7 posted on 05/15/2023 6:07:59 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

*Ireland has their hands full right now with “migrants” from Ukraine and Sub-Saharan African nations.*

So tell me, Why doesn’t Japan have that problem? 2 Island nations.


8 posted on 05/15/2023 7:13:53 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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Japan isn’t part of the EU, for one.


9 posted on 05/15/2023 7:25:42 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

There’s no such thing as a “state of Palestine”.


10 posted on 05/15/2023 9:00:47 PM PDT by beethovenfan (The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
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To: Olog-hai

Another sellout of Israel in the works?


11 posted on 05/16/2023 2:24:25 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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