Posted on 01/27/2024 11:34:59 PM PST by Olog-hai
Ireland has “no plans” to suspend funding for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, the Tánaiste has said, after other nations have announced they are suspending funding.
It comes after Israel’s foreign minister said the country will seek to stop UNRWA from operating in Gaza after the war after it accused several of its staff of involvement in Hamas’s 7 October attack.
Australia, Italy, Finland, the Netherlands and Canada have decided to suspend financing of UNRWA, while Britain and the US will temporarily pause future funding.
In a post on X, Micheál Martin said he has “full confidence” in Commissioner-General of UNRWA Philippe Lazzarini’s decision to immediately suspend staff suspected of participation in the “heinous attacks of October 7” and to investigate thoroughly and “show zero tolerance on terror”. …
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That’s what I thought.
“The Irish supported Hitler.”
No the IRA had connections to the Nazis but Ireland itself was neutral. 50k Irishmen served in the British armed forces fighting the Nazis.
Ireland was only officially neutral.
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