A straight line can be drawn from Irish President Éamon de Valera, who paid a visit to the senior German diplomat in Dublin to express his condolences to Nazi Germany on the death of Adolf Hitler, to the deep anti-Israel animus, grading into outright antisemitism, expressed recently by Ireland’s current president Michael Higgins, its prime minister Simon Harris, and its foreign minister Micheal Martin. Now Eamon Martin, the Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, has come out with his own spittle-flecked message of hate for the Jewish state here:”Irish Catholic Archbishop: Israeli response to Hamas ‘merciless and disproportionate,'” by Michael Starr, Jerusalem Post, January 2, 2025:
Irish Archbishop Eamon Martin has decried the Israeli response to Hamas attacks as merciless and disproportionate in a New Year’s Day message, delivered at a time of increased criticism by Ireland and the Catholic Church toward Israel’s prosecution of the multi-front Levantine war.
The Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland said on Tuesday that while the Hamas-led October 7 attacks were “egregious” and hostages were still being held in Gaza, the IDF’s response was “merciless and disproportionate.”
Hmm. Does that word “egregious” seem to you to be the right word to describe the Hamas attacks on October 7, in which 6,000 Hamas operatives, accompanied by a few hundred delirious civilians hoping to join in the homicidal fun, smashed into Israel and proceeded to rape, torture, mutilate, and murder 1,200 Israelis? No, of course not. The Primate of All Ireland then said that while Hamas’ atrocities may have been “egregious,” Israel’s response was far worse; it was “merciless and disproportionate.”
Over 45,000 people, including 17,000 children, have been cut down; two million people forcibly displaced; almost the entire population of Gaza is living in extreme hunger, and despite the reality of catastrophic famine conditions for hundreds of thousands of desperate civilians, humanitarian access is effectively blocked,” said Martin.
Archbishop Martin is wrong. He is mindlessly repeating Hamas propaganda about casualty figures. Let’s go into those numbers for the nth time. Hamas has claimed, through its puppet, the Gaza Ministry of Health, that 45,000 people have died in Gaza in 15 months of war. It deliberately does not distinguish between civilian and military deaths. The IDF has said that it has killed 20,000 Hamas fighters. We also know that before the Gaza war began, 800 Gazans died each month from diseases and accidents. Assuming that figure holds steady, in the fifteen months of the war, 800 x 15, or 12,000 Gazans have died of non-combat related causes. And that means the total number of civilian casualties as a result of the war amount not to 45,000, as the archbishop claims, but 25,000-12,000, or 13,000. Where did Archbishop Martin come up with that figure of “17,000 children” whom, he claims, have “been cut down,” a figure that is 4,000 more than the total for all civilians — men, women, and children — killed in the war? Why, like so many other credulous and biased souls, he took it from Hamas propagandists who incessantly repeat that figure.
Archbishop Martin claims that two million people were “forcibly displaced” by the IDF, and that must be a wicked thing. He has completely missed the point. Gazans were not “forcibly displaced,” but rather, encouraged to move out of certain areas — from cities to neighborhoods to individual buildings, in order to avoid being harmed if they remained in areas about to be targeted by the IDF. “Two million people” were not moved all at once, as Martin claims. The largest move was from the city of Rafah, where 900,000 people were encouraged to move to the safe zone set up by the IDF on the Mediterranean coast at Al-Mawasi. Most of the other warnings were directed at far fewer numbers — thousands or even hundreds of Gazans at a time. In every case, once an area was declared “cleared of Hamas terrorists,” civilians were allowed back in. This tremendous effort by the IDF to move Gazan civilians to relative safety is presented by the Primate of All Ireland as an evil act; he refuses to recognize that those warnings that led to those temporary displacements saved lives. Can he really be unaware of the fact that the IDF by March had dropped nine million leaflets, sent fifteen million text messages, and made sixteen million robocalls in Gaza, not to harm civilians, but to urge them away from danger?
Jos Haynes says
The Irish establishment does not just hate Israel – it hates the Irish even more. It has a vision to replace them all with immigrants from alien cultures, unless, of course, they subscribe to their global view of the new world order.
Elizabeth says
I was raised Catholic. Used to believe them then as I grew older I started reading the bible for myself. The clergy will tell you anything to keep you afraid of leaving their influence. My Catholic friends are good people. But because they try to keep you tied to them and not God, you cannot trust them. They don’t deal in facts. Its too bad.
JS says
Perhaps the Irish Bishop should take all these “poor refugees” and bring them to Ireland. All those children too, after all they’re already doing it. The UK has already become a cess pool for Islamic hate mongers. Let him see them upclose and let him view how those throw away kids are raised and bred. People are ignorant and are unable to see what’s been going on in their entire lifetimes.
somehistory says
What does he know? No one should listen to someone pretending to serve Christ when that person disobeys a direct command from Christ. He evidently does not love and care for Jesus’ brothers. (Matthew 25)
“Do not you be called Rabbi….teacher….father….”
“Berean Standard Bible…7 the greetings in the marketplaces, and the title of ‘Rabbi’ by which they are addressed. 8 But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi,’ for you have one Teacher, and you are all brothers. 9 And do not call anyone on earth your father, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.….”
“New Living Translation
“Don’t let anyone call you ‘Rabbi,’ for you have only one teacher, and all of you are equal as brothers and sisters.”
The title of “bishop” is very similar to Rabbi. And this guy….who doesn’t know his place….has an added title.
so, imo, no one who cares for Truth should listen to him.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
My late mother-in-law was a devout Catholic who contributed to what she thought was a legitimate charity — the Holy Land Foundation. She assumed because of its title that it was involved in supporting Christians and sacred sites in the Holy Land. She was infuriated to discover that she had been contributing for years to an organization that was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in a trial of Muslim terrorists. She had always been a supporter of Israel and knew enough about Islam from her father, who had worked as a lawyer for the Seven Sisters, a job which included frequent trips to the Middle East, and always warned her that she should never be in a room alone with Muslims. I can well imagine what she would say were she alive today to Eamon Martin, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I had no idea that President Éamon de Valera went out of his way to condole the death of Hitler. Which government was he dealing w/, since the Nazi government was well on its way to collapse?
skeptiker says
Bei solchen Faschisten wie diesem Erzbischof, finde ich brennende und geschändete Kirchen gar nicht mehr so abstoßend.
James Lincoln says
Irish Archbishop Eamon Martin:
Another blind guide attempting to slurp his way up the Catholic hierarchy.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
This Primate should stop monkeying around.