Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions
Dail Éireann — 2023-02-23
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Richard Boyd Barrett (PBP), Dún Laoghaire

Everybody is clear that Putin is a murderous tyrant and criminal warmonger. However, I quoted the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists which is made up of ten Nobel Peace Prize laureates who start by condemning Putin and then go on to urge NATO. The problem is that the Tánaiste has a blind spot when it comes to the equally bloody history of NATO and its major powers. The United States has never apologised for the use of nuclear weapons in Nagasaki and Hiroshima. It still believes it has the right to possess them. The Tánaiste states, rightly, that the Ukrainian people have the right to resistance against an illegal occupation. Will he say the same about the Palestinians, of whom ten were killed last night in Nablus in a raid by Israel in what is an illegal occupation and military intervention into land internationally designated for the Palestinians?

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Sitting date: 2023-02-23