An Irish lawmaker criticized son government for “double standards” concerning the sanctions on Russia over son invasion of Ukraine, but not taking similar steps against Israel for his violence against Palestinians.
Richard Boyd Barrett sits in the irish parliament for the left-wing people before profit party.
“You are happy to correctly use strongest and most robust language describe the crimes against humanity of Vladimir Putin but you will not use the same force of language when it comes to describing the treatment of Israel of the Palestinians,” he said. parliament on Wednesday.
He listed Israeli offenses of Palestinian rights, including aggression on Gaza and annexation of earth, and said, “You want same use the word apartheid, not to mention the sanctions.”
“(This took) five days for punishments against Putin and his thugs – 70 years of oppression of the Palestinians, and it wouldn’t be – what was the word you used? – it would not be “useful” to impose sanctions”.
He said Amnesty International had called for Israel brought before the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity.
“They (Amnesty) are calling for targeted sanctions against Israeli officials perpetuate the system of apartheid,” he said. “Exactly the same types of penalties you have just initiated against Vladimir Poutine.”
The idea of the two-state solution was to give Palestinians an independent state while allowing Israel to exist as a democracy with a strong Jewish majority. However, Israel’s continued expansion of colonies, the absence of any peace process and repeated rounds of violence have many complicated hope of fence off the land.
the international community still sees a two-state solution as the only realistic solution way for resolve the dispute.
But the ground is shifting, especially among young Palestinians, who more and more view the conflict as struggle for equal rights under what they – and three prominent human rights groups – call the apartheid regime.
Israel vehemently rejects these allegations, considering them an anti-Semitic act attack on son right to exist. Lapid suggested restarting a political process with Palestinians would be help Israel resists all efforts to label it an apartheid state in world body.
