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Irish leader claims without evidence that Israel leaked his friendly letter to Iranian president
Times of Israel ^ | 23 September 2024, 2:35 am

Posted on 09/23/2024 2:53:35 AM PDT by Olog-hai

Irish President Michael Higgins accuses Israel of leaking the full text of a letter he sent to Iran’s new president as he was sworn in in July, an allegation rejected and denounced by the Israeli embassy.

The July 11 letter congratulating Masoud Pezeshkian — whose existence was made public on July 26 by Ireland’s Foreign Ministry but whose full text was then published online on July 29 — drew backlash for its friendly nature; its claim that Iran will play a “crucial role” in achieving Middle East stability, cooperation and “peaceful resolving of disputes”; and its omission of Tehran’s major role in malign activity and violence against its own people and across the region.

It was slammed by officials including Mark Dubowitz, CEO of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and by Israel’s embassy in Dublin. Ambassador Dana Erlich was recalled in May as Jerusalem protested Ireland’s recognition of a Palestinian state.

During a visit to the UN headquarters in New York, Higgins is asked by reporters Sunday about the issue, defending the letter as “standard” and saying it stressed the need for peace and diplomacy.

He then claims that it was the Israeli embassy itself that leaked the letter, without providing evidence and while acknowledging he doesn’t know how the letter was allegedly obtained by the Jewish state. …

(Excerpt) Read more at timesofisrael.com ...


TOPICS: European Union; Foreign Affairs; Gaza; Hamas; Hezbollah; Iran; Israel; Lebanon; News/Current Events; Syria; War; War on Terror
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To: TheThirdRuffian

More nonsense and ahistorical bullspit. Except for a few IRA cranks, no one in Ireland supported Germany.


21 posted on 09/23/2024 6:36:18 AM PDT by rxh4n1 ( )
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To: Flag_This

I don’t disagree with you. What the English did to the Irish makes the Atlantic African slave trade look like amateur hour.

But the topic is whether they were allied with Nazi Germany, which they were clandestinely, not why.


22 posted on 09/23/2024 6:37:17 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown in)
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To: rxh4n1

LOL.


23 posted on 09/23/2024 6:38:14 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown in)
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To: Flag_This

That’s left-wing propaganda. Look closer at the actual history.


24 posted on 09/23/2024 6:39:51 AM 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: TheThirdRuffian

Look closer at the actual history.


25 posted on 09/23/2024 6:40:59 AM 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: rxh4n1

No; it was far more than that.


26 posted on 09/23/2024 6:41:40 AM 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: TheThirdRuffian
Of course they did. And the IRA was trained by the KGB right along side the Muslim Brotherhood in Libya.

They are all in bed together having an orgy with sheep.

Why this seems to surprise people I do not know.

27 posted on 09/23/2024 6:45:07 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: Flag_This
For some reason you spend centuries raiding your neighbors for slaves and they tend not to like you.

Can not imagine why that would be.

28 posted on 09/23/2024 6:46:24 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: Olog-hai

“No; it was far more than that.’

what was more than that? Kindly share with us.


29 posted on 09/23/2024 6:46:39 AM PDT by rxh4n1 ( )
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To: TheThirdRuffian
"But the topic is whether they were allied with Nazi Germany, which they were clandestinely, not why."

The United States was openly allied with the communist Soviet Union, an entity that was as equally blood-soaked and vile as the nazis, and just as responsible for starting the war.

30 posted on 09/23/2024 6:47:17 AM PDT by Flag_This (They're lying.)
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To: Olog-hai
"That’s left-wing propaganda. Look closer at the actual history."

Right. That's why half of Ireland fled to the United States.

31 posted on 09/23/2024 6:48:39 AM PDT by Flag_This (They're lying.)
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To: Olog-hai

Ireland,once a proud and decent nation,is now nothing more than (and nothing less than) a tiny European cesspool.


32 posted on 09/23/2024 7:19:07 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: TheThirdRuffian
I love Ireland and have visited there, but they have some deep issues.

I'm 100% Irish going back 100,000 years. As such I'd refer you to my Post #32.

33 posted on 09/23/2024 7:22:46 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

34 posted on 09/23/2024 8:45:02 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: rxh4n1

That we know of, but while the world burned Ireland chose to stay safe

I know all about Switzerland and that is why I said that


35 posted on 09/23/2024 8:59:55 AM PDT by blitz128
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To: rxh4n1

Don’t forget about Sweden, who was supplying Iron Ore to the Nazis.


36 posted on 09/23/2024 9:01:33 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Olog-hai

Ireland sent a sympathy letter on the death of Hitler, so he really should shut up.


37 posted on 09/23/2024 11:11:27 AM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: dfwgator

Sweden sold iron ore to both sides. As a neutral nation, it is free to do so. It wasn’t a one way street and they were very much more helpful to the Aliies than the Swiss.


38 posted on 09/23/2024 11:41:39 AM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: Flag_This

The reason for that is why I said to examine the history closer. Bad enough that phony claims of “genocide” are flying around.


39 posted on 09/23/2024 11:44:23 AM 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

The potato famine was deliberate.


40 posted on 09/23/2024 11:47:58 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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