There are persistent rumors about Israeli expansionism, which are odd in light of the fact that Israel has repeatedly given up territory to which it had a right in vain efforts to secure peace with its neighbors.
“‘Antisemitic liar’: FM blasts Irish president’s claim Israel wants to settle Egypt,” Times of Israel, December 18, 2024:
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar called Ireland’s President Michael Higgins an “antisemitic liar” on Tuesday, not long after Israel announced the shuttering of its embassy in Dublin, citing “anti-Israel” policy.
Sa’ar’s comments came after Higgins accused Israel of breaching Lebanon’s and Syria’s sovereignty and charged, without evidence, that Jerusalem was seeking to establish settlements in Egypt.
The foreign minister has defended his Sunday decision to close Israel’s embassy in Ireland, saying that Dublin “encouraged” antisemitism under a prime minister he accused of hating Jews.
Responding on Tuesday, Higgins said that he saw it as a “very serious business to actually brand a people because in fact they disagree with Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu, who is in breach of so many bits of international law, and who has beached the sovereignty of three of his neighbors, in relation to Lebanon, Syria, and would like in fact actually to have a settlement into Egypt.”
Speaking during a ceremony at which Palestinian Authority envoy Jilan Abdalmajid presented her letter of credence, Higgins added, “I think to suggest that because one criticized Prime Minister Netanyahu that one is antisemitic is such a gross defamation and slander.”
Ireland has been one of Israel’s most outspoken critics throughout the war in Gaza, which broke out on October 7, 2023, with Hamas’s unprecedented attack in which 3,000 terrorists murdered some 1,200 people and took 251 hostages, mostly civilians.
Higgins also charged on Tuesday that Israel’s diplomatic moves were “part of a pattern to damage Ireland,” without elaborating.
Israel recalled its ambassador in May after Ireland became one of three EU countries that said they would unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state. Ireland has not recalled its envoy to Israel. In November, the Irish parliament passed a nonbinding motion declaring that “genocide is being perpetrated before our eyes by Israel in Gaza.”…
Bexarkat says
Methinks the little leprechaun is scuttered. Perhaps another round of Murphy’s Irish Stout might do him some good.
Chris says
Irish PM is a liar and a sick puppy
Heidi says
He’s a figurehead president. Sam Harris is FM
Edward Amos Brandwein says
Another useful idiot.
A real HAMAS PUPPET!
FYI says
Fully agree with the Israeli FM.
The Irish political elite and media are utterly corrupt.The political elite and media are actually much despised in Ireland.The political elite do not represent the people:only the lefty narrative and themselves
There are of course pro-Israei groups in Ireland.If you look at the comments on You Tube on this matter you can easily spot the whinging Pally trolls and their best buddies,the Lefties/New Nazis.You may note that many folk of Irish extraction have condemned Simon” the ghoul “Harris and …oh what’s the correct title?…Sir Michael D Higgins CBE OBE….prosperous virtue siganlling well fed Lefties who clearly know nothing about Israel.
Micheal D has I believe promoted transgenderism whilst those who have protested this appaling legal chicanery have been put in Jail
There is a new term for the grasping lefty political morally bankrupt elite,some members of the Judiciary
and a media that constantly lies
The GOMBEENO crime syndicate{from the word Gombeen men}
Another glass of Sherry Sir Michael D Higgins CBE?
How the other half live eh?on taxpayers expense-the affluent lefties that is.
I think often of the Children of Gaza and the kidnapped Isarelis:the lefties don’t seem to care..
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Israel should go a step further and shut down the Irish embassy in Tel Aviv, and expel their ambassador
Ireland looks pretty much like the Canada of Europe in terms of how stupidly it is behaving
carpediadem says
All embassies should be in the capitol of Jerusalem. If they don’t have it there they should be expelled.
skeptiker says
Korrekt.
sean Walsh says
I am Irish and find the Irish President Higgins an embarrassment, He would; not say the same about America but when he does under President Trump Ireland will get a big wake-up call,
memi says
Irish President Higgins’ accusations that Israel is breaching Syria’s sovereignty and seeking to establish settlement in Egypt is outrageously wrong! Does he know who (wanted by U.S.Justice) terrorist al-Jawlani is? He is the jihadist whose terrorist Al-Qaeda/HST/Muslim Bros/ISIS are now running Syria and were given Syrian passports by the new regime of jihadists!
Perhaps Higgins should call up Sultan Erdogan (al-Jalani’s boss) and ask for exclusive rights to the Captagon drug that was produced and trafficked en masse by dictator Assad’s former huge pharmaceutical “industry” and this would be a feather in his cap!
Is the Captagon drug “industry” the reason why Higgins wanted to close the Israeli embassy in order to get a better deal with the Turko-Jihadist Islamist Syrian Alliance? Soon we’ll see leprechaun stickers on the bottles being sold to EU with discounts for Ireland!