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Ireland's Anti-Israel Stance

(Telegraph-UK) Michael Murphy - On Sunday, Israel announced it was closing its Dublin embassy because of the "extreme anti-Israel policies of the Irish government." Just last week, the Irish government called to "broaden" the definition of genocide to vaguely include civilian harm, effectively turning Israel into a perpetrator of a crime yet to exist. For Jerusalem, this attempt to shift legal goalposts, redefining established terms to engineer guilt, was the final straw. After years of diplomatic snubs, boycotts, and genocide accusations - not to mention Ireland's recognition of a Palestinian state soon after Oct. 7 - Israel decided to cut its losses. Ireland is for international law when it suits. That's why it now seeks to rewrite the Genocide Convention to retroactively lower the bar for convicting Israel. This more closely resembles authoritarian justice, where the accused is condemned first and the crime tailored to fit. Ireland may claim to be "pro-peace," but when Irish peacekeepers stationed in southern Lebanon turned a blind eye to Hizbullah amassing rockets on Israel's border - in blatant violation of international law - Dublin remained silent. Had the peacekeepers done their job, Hizbullah's emboldening of Hamas, and this war, might have been avoided. Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris declared that Israel was not "entitled to have an alternative set of facts." But this cuts both ways. The facts reveal that Ireland's government is determined to accuse the Jewish state of genocide - a term born from the Holocaust - at any cost. Ireland abandons its principles when the violators aren't Jews but weaponizes them when they supposedly are.
2024-12-19 00:00:00
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