Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements
Dail Éireann — 2024-07-03
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Richard Boyd Barrett (PBP), Dún Laoghaire

Since Israel's genocidal massacre commenced in Gaza, hundreds of millions of people across the world have taken to the streets in solidarity with Palestinians, including in the US, where Jewish people have said Israel's crimes are not committed in their name and that Biden's arming and supporting of Israel does not represent them.
Considering the depressing spectacle of Trump versus Biden – somebody complicit in genocide versus somebody who is a pathological liar, racist, abuser and proto-fascist – should we not stand with the millions in America, ordinary people, who are saying "Not in our name; these people do not represent us", and acknowledge that the fundamental problem, whether it is Trump, Biden or successive US regimes, is the fact that those regimes continue to arm Israel to commit the sorts of crimes it is committing in Gaza and, prior to those, carry out the siege of Gaza and the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians under an apartheid system? Biden, on several occasions when he could string a sentence together, summed it up when he said that if Israel did not exist, the US would invent it. In those words, he spoke the truth of US foreign policy. Is it not time that people like the Taoiseach and the leaders of governments around the world who are horrified at this spoke the truth about the malign influence of US foreign policy in providing the succour that can allow Israel to commit the sort of genocide it is committing now?

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Sitting date: 2024-07-03