Irish Taoiseach Micheal Martin confirmed on Friday that the government imposed a travel ban on two Israeli Cabinet ministers, Anadolu Agency reports.
Irish Justice Minister Jim O’Callaghan introduced travel bans on Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, Martin said as he was in Montenegro for the EU-Western Balkans Summit, according to broadcaster RTE.
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Underlining that the two ministers’ actions and words amount to a desire to see the elimination of Palestinians from Palestine, Martin called for further EU measures against them.
In my view, their behavior justifies sanctions at EU level as well, and that’s something that we will raise; whether we can get sufficient support across the European Union is a different matter, he said.
A spokesperson for O’Callaghan said travel bans on the two Israeli ministers were put in place following an agreement by the government earlier this week.
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The people of Ireland are outraged by the genociding of the Palestinians by Zionists and have made it plain any lobbying organisations connected to Israel are not welcome like “The Friends of Israel ” . This goes back to the war of independence from England where they were repressed and killed and are sympathetic to the suffering of the oppressed Palestinians . They have now joined a group applying to the International Court of Justice ( ICJ) against Israelis actions . Like wise in Scotland the Glasgow Celtic football club has many supporters crying out strongly against the oppression,this has… Read more »
Less than an hour after the swearing-in of Slovenia’s new Prime Minister, Janez Janša, before Parliament, he removed the Palestinian flag from a government building. This decision marked the first step in a significant shift in Slovenia’s position toward Israel under Janša. The right-wing prime minister, who previously held the position in 2022, replaced a prime minister from the liberal Freedom Movement party. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar announced on Thursday that Israel would open its first-ever embassy in Ljubljana, the Slovenian capital, writing in a message on X that the decision was a declaration of “friendship, dialogue, and a… Read more »
“Friendship,dialogue,–belief in freedom,democracy,security ” pity they didn’t apply those hypocritical beliefs to Palestinians whom they are genociding .
Reminds me of Herr Hitlers speeches to several countries before he invaded them. I am amazed that the new PM seems to have no knowledge of what is going on in Palestine, if he does I fear for the future of Slovak,s citizens.
It all goes to show how the Western powers’ tools are designed to be nothing more than symbolic gestures when it comes to whom they deem to be their ‘like-minded’ political elites. This is because the state loses what little ‘legitimacy’ it has when it must impose standards on itself, especially when its power brokers make false claims to democracy in the way countries such as Canada have made about Israel. It looks incredibly bad to Canadians that our politicians claim Israel is a democracy. It makes us wonder what additional horrors they are going to wreak upon us next.… Read more »
Well said Megan I agree entirely , I know about the democracy of Canada and its problems eventually western countries lose the very meaning of that word and apply dictatorial methods under the pretense of “danger to the country, “extreme censorship in the name of “defending the people from propaganda/lies” while going overboard in that direction themselves to stop you having another point of view .
Herr Hitler did the same in Germany manufacturing “Peoples Radios ” with a very limited reception range and sending out radio vans to locate users listening into foreign broadcasts