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Again, this was two nutjobs who are not even in the Irish Parliament. We can't condemn the entire nation for those two idiots or else the USA could be condemned for Obama....

You wouldn't think so with just this bit of information, but several weeks ago I saw an article about the Irish parliament about to pass a law that said any Irish citizen caught with products of Israel would receive a six month jail sentence.

According to the article (from memory) the law was only stopped because the White House intervened. They contacted the leader of the Irish parliament and informed him that Israel was an ally of the United States, and unless he wanted a trade embargo on Irish goods sold to the US, he would drop this idea.

And so they did.

But you put these two different stories together and it makes it seem like the Irish have lost their F***ing minds! Add to this stories coming out from Ireland about Abortion and Homosexuality, and it gets even more worrisome.

you should not read half-truth and incomplete stories like You wouldn't think so with just this bit of information, but several weeks ago I saw an article about the Irish parliament about to pass a law that said any Irish citizen caught with products of Israel would receive a six month jail sentence. According to the article (from memory) the law was only stopped because the White House intervened. They contacted the leader of the Irish parliament and informed him that Israel was an ally of the United States, and unless he wanted a trade embargo on Irish goods sold to the US, he would drop this idea.

The truth is that they PROPOSED a ban on products made in settlements in the West bank - not for products made in the rest of Israel

ALSO The bill was stopped because of Israeli protests, not due to White House intervention

The former makes it slightly less bad, but to say they wanted to ban ALL Israeli products is just hyperbole. A large % of Ireland's companies are actually Israeli