Don’t you mean “former Fianna Fáil TD Chris Andrews” rather than Barry Andrews?

Don’t you mean former TD Chris Andrews?

Oh the Israelis are such mean brutish people keeping this bunch of loons in prison for hmmmm hmmmm 3 days. If they can act this brutal the next thing they might do is wave their finger and call you naughty boys. They did suceed in showing you up as the bunch of eejits ye are though.

The problem that I have with these loons is they are pointing out the legitimate faults of the Israelis while ignoring the much greater human rights abuses of Israels neighbours whos religion is compelling them to live in the 7th century. If the Islamic world didnt feel their imaginary sky daddy was telling them they must destroy the State of Israel regardless of what concessions the Israelis make then maybe Israel wouldnt feel the need to react so hard when they are attacked. Maybe just maybe if international politics demanded respect for evidence and enlightenment for positions of elected office the world would be in a better place. Also the Islamic world need to be hurled 1400 years into the 21st century.

Watch tomorrow as the martyrs arrive at Dublin Airport spinning yarns of brutal Israeli mistreatment as they did last year and expecting to be taken seriously. If they were ‘kidnapped’ and ‘hijacked’ as they allege you would expect them to want to get out of that living Israeli hell ASAP, but instead they chose to drag it out, refusing to sign deportation papers and using up the full 72 hours available for appeal. Remember, this is the ‘rogue state’ they abhor and hate so much, they must find it unbearable to touch its soil…

As for Micheal Martin, it seems for him that a state has a theoretical right to defend itself, but must not do anything to enforce that right. If he doesn’t like this blockade, he has an obligation to suggest to Israel an alternative that would be equally effective against weapons smuggling by Hamas & Islamic Jihad into Gaza. Otherwise, his stance is just moral posturing.

I’m sure they’ll be straight of to join one of the #occupy protests….

http://www.fiannafail.ie/page/s/gaza

I see Fianna Fail is running an online petition which accuses Israel of using “lethal force” in the interception of the Saoirse and it’s Canadian twin.Sensible people following the story know full well that the activists will be returning home at the expense of Israel with not a hair on their precious heads harmed. I’d say Trevor saw more lethal force in Donnybrook.

It should be noted that 7 of the 14 Irish ‘humanitarians’ on the Saoirse are members of Sinn Fein, including several former Provo IRA activists. The relevance of this is that their organisation signed up to the 1998 Good Friday Agreement that sought to end the politics of demonisation, boycott and confrontation between the two Irish communities and replace it with the politics of dialogue and parity of esteem.

Yet, having largely abandoned this form of politics in Ireland, they now try to impose the same negative politics on their abysmally understood and totally one-sided take on the Middle East conflict. In trying to break the Gaza blockade, they cannot be blind to the consequences were they to succeed: an inevitable upsurge in the smuggling by Hamas and Islamic Jihad of Iranian weaponry into Gaza and the increased rocketing of Israel, adding to the 1,200 Israeli death toll of the intifada since 2001.

But these guys are in familiar ‘waters’ here: 25 years ago the Provos were busy smuggling into Ireland huge consignments of weapons by ship from Gaddafi’s Libya for their murder campaign in N. Ireland. Sadly the Irish navy intercepted only one – the Eksund in 1987. Only a lack of manpower by the IRA prevented this arsenal being to kill far greater numbers of fellow-Irish people.

I guess my petition to actually ship the pricks to gaza and let them live there didn’t catch on. Maybe next time…. And we all know there will be a next time…

There are still some 20 activists and journalists that remain detained under the Israeli government, which is absolutely outrageous. There have been allegations of abuse and even physical assault by Israeli forces on those detained. I was watching Democracy Now! this morning and their correspondent, Jihan Hafiz, was just released last night. She was on the show today and talked about the violent Israeli raid of the boats and her three-day detention. Definitely worth checking out: http://www.democracynow.org

In response to Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin’s super-heated guff, over the arrest of those who should not have been on board a boat, to run the recognised legal, by the UN, blockade of Gaza Strip, and now languish in Givon jail, It would be fair to say that the ROI is not in any position to criticise Israel.

Former rugby player Trevor Hogan, Socialist Party MEP Paul Murphy, former TD Chris Andrews and several other politicians, took on this mission to support international terrorism, at their own risk, and have no right to complain about Israel’s perfectly legal and justifiable response, to an aspect of the existential threats from Israel’s enemies, which include those who helped to bail out the Irish banks. Enemies of Israel, that the ROI is now beholden to.

It was with some relief that Martin McGuinness failed in his Presidential election run, since success would have clearly shown that the ROI to be a nation of travellers, led by gombeens. Now, though, that is not so certain. Nevertheless, Israel can be sanguine to the extent that, although the ROI has voluntarily joined the ranks of Israel’s enemies, the ROI is in no position to do anything of much consequence, beyond that which it already does, as a safe haven for the likes of the Real IRA and/or its flags of convenience.