Restrictive Financial Measures (State of Israel) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members]
Dail Éireann — 2025-05-27
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Mary Lou McDonald (SF), Dublin Central

-----that mealy-mouthed pattern of condemnation but no more, deploring but ultimately standing back and doing nothing. The greatest shield Israel has is the refusal of the international community to impose sanctions. They continue to make excuses. They hide behind so-called complexities as Israel intensifies its genocide and continues to brutally and brazenly violate international law. Let me be very clear; there is nothing complex about genocide, there is nothing complex about the mass slaughter of children and there is nothing complex about the fact these war bonds are being used to fund the atrocity of our times. The Government can put a stop to Ireland's involvement right now. That is what it should do; that is what it must do because in the end, Government cannot say it stands against genocide while facilitating the funding of that same genocide.

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