Cabinet Committees
Dail Éireann — 2023-02-14
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Leo Varadkar (FG), Dublin West

In relation to Israel itself, we should acknowledge that it is one of the few countries in the region that has a democratically elected Government, an independent judiciary and equal rights for women and LGBT people. We would not like that to change. I am concerned that Israel is going down a very different path from that but I do not think our concerns about Israel should blind us to other governments and administrations in the region that do not uphold the rights of women and LGBT people or have free and fair elections.

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