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Posted on 07/17/2025 9:11:44 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Ireland appears closer to passing a bill that will ban trade with illegal Israeli settlements in occupied territories in the West Bank, sparking sharp criticism from US officials who have signaled the move could harm Dublin’s relationship with Washington.
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee accused Ireland of “diplomatic intoxication” Tuesday in a sharp rebuke of the draft legislation, invoking a derogatory stereotype of the Irish people.
“Did the Irish fall into a vat of Guinness & propose something so stupid that it would be attributed to act of diplomatic intoxication? It will harm Arabs as much as Israelis. Sober up Ireland!,” Huckabee said in a post on X.
Huckabee’s comment comes after the Irish Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade held pre-legislative scrutiny meetings this week to discuss the bill, which has drawn support from pro-Palestinian lawmakers and campaigners and criticism from several Jewish organizations and some in the Jewish community.
CNN has reached out to the Irish Foreign Ministry for comment on Huckabee’s post.
In an apparent attempt to deflect criticism, Micheál Martin, the Taoiseach, or prime minister, has said enacting the bill would be “largely symbolic,” as it aims to apply pressure on Israel to end the war in Gaza.
“This is one element of the government’s approach to the devastating violence and the appalling humanitarian situation in Gaza and the West Bank,” Martin said in April.
On Monday, the chair of the Jewish Representative Council of Ireland, Maurice Cohen, called the bill “a performance of misguided effort.”
“It won’t bring two states closer, but it might drive Jewish communities here in Ireland further into fear and isolation,” Cohen said.
Republican Senator Lindsay Graham also weighed in on the bill, saying Tuesday that he hopes “Ireland will reconsider their efforts to economically isolate Israel.”
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Lindsey Graham is threatening Ireland what about the folks in South Carolina?
But to cut to the chase Ireland’s powerful Sinn Fein-IRA are terrorist blood brothers of the PLO that terrorized Israel.
I would expect this stance from Ireland does the US control Ireland or is Ireland independent we will find out.
The European Union must not exist, to you. That’s who controls Ireland.
He can say what he wants about the Irish.
They exist but they are on a leash IMHO. EU may ultimately tell Ireland to buckle down and obey the USA or is that the USAIPAC.
I see you are anti-US. Opus?
I would not jump to conclusions but I am discussing realities without becoming militantly obsessed by them.
the Irish government has gone 99.44% Nazi in the last couple of years, plus or minus
it is so sad for Ireland. Every Irish person we’ve known has been a good, moral person.
I agree, and my ancestors were from Ireland.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expresses “deep sorrow”......
“apologizes” for the killing and maiming from Israel’s bombing a Catholic Church in Gaza.
And here we are gaslighted by Israel that all those Gazans need to be annihilated because they’re nothing but hate-filled Muslim terrorists. No mention of Gazan Catholics....... and other Gazan Christians........
On 24 October this year, Joe Biden, then-President, said that the US supports Israel based on “our principles, ideals, [and] values. They are the same values,” Biden emphasized.
He is talking about “values and ideals,” giving the sap-happy impression that the US and Israel “share the noble ideals and principles of freedom and equally value democracy, where human rights and law are highly regarded.........even for Christians. “
This is a far-from-reality comment, and it makes Biden, as President, complicit in what Israel is doing in the Gaza Strip and to Gazans.
When Hamas Resistance fighters attacked Israel, Mr. Biden made it his sacred mission to step up his support for Israel by offering the Occupation State unprecedented financial, political and expertise support.
Biden first announced, and got Congress approval for $14.5bn foe Israel. The colossal sum of money gives the impression that tiny Israel is fighting another superpower, not “terrorists”, as it calls Hamas.
Of course, this is aside from the annual $4bn that Israel gets in military aid from the Christian American taxpayers. Some of the extra windfall came in the form of military equipment, including the top line bombs from Christian American defense weapons that are being used by Israel to kill, maim and displace Palestinians across the Gaza Strip.
The idea of “shared” values between Tel Aviv and Washington raises questions:
<><>what is the shared noble values that both capitals have in common?
<><>What US interests compel it to support Israel?
<><>What is the single US interest in the death of more than 15,000 Palestinians
<><>what kind of shared US interest is served by repeatedly displacing over 1 million Palestinians after denying them food, medicine, water, medical care and safe shelter?
Over the last 75 years of its bloody history, Israel has not only enjoyed, as Mr. Biden said, “iron-clad” military commitment of Christian US, but its political protection on any international stage wherever Israel is called out, for whatever disaster it has committed.
Israel never stops gaslighting Christian America, committing the kind of ugliness unimaginable in the 21 century, like what it is doing in Gaza, always counting on “Christian America’s” help.
“Did the Irish fall into a vat of Guinness & propose something so stupid that it would be attributed to act of diplomatic intoxication? It will harm Arabs as much as Israelis. Sober up Ireland!,” Huckabee said in a post on X.
If any Irish got offended then I should be very disappointed. People of my ancestry generally don't give a crap what you call us. Fighting is reserved for more important things. Bets. Horses. Getting stiffed. Grudges...
Eh, as a ginger Catholic of mainly Norwegian descent with an Irish surname who’s spent his fair amount of time in Ireland, I can tell you they don’t need the EU to be antisemitic. Indeed, still some pretty open Hitler supporters openly talk at any given pub.
Are you on NIAC’s payroll, or just their mailing list?
It helps when you don’t know any Kennedys, or Kerry’s, Fitzpatrick’s, or Irish Democrats.
Ireland looks to be heavily influenced by organized Irish criminal drug cartels with branch offices in the UAE and South America, unfortunately.
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