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Did you see the shocking but not that entirely unsurprising news that Israel will close its embassy in Dublin over “the extreme anti-Israel policies of the Irish government”?
Israel’s foreign Minister Gideon Saar has said the Republic of Ireland had crossed “every red line”. In a statement, he said Israel’s ambassador to Dublin had been recalled in the past following what it called Ireland’s “unilateral decision to recognise a Palestinian state”. He added that the decision followed Ireland’s announcement of its support for South Africa’s legal action against Israel in the International Court of Justice (ICJ), accusing the country of “genocide”.
Why is Ireland so viscerally hostile to Israel?
Well, let’s recall that BOTH the Irish President and Prime Minster were quick to send “condolences” to Germany on the death of …Adolf Hitler in 1945. Well, quite. This was a sign something was very rotten in the State and it was, even, then, the State.
I have always detected a seething anti-Israeli sentiment in the Irish Republic over the decades I have visited it and designated this to perhaps the malign influence of the Irish Roman Catholic Church. But I don’t think that argument really holds up anymore given how weakened that particular institution has become and yet how much more intense the hatred of Israel has become in recent years.
I think it’s worse than that. The fact is that the entire Irish political establishment luxuriates in hating on Israel whilst pretending it is no way anti-Semitic. Have a look at the above picture of the current Irish President, the ludicrous leprechaun Michael D. Higgins by way of understanding how deep this political affinity with Palestinians runs.
During the recent Irish election campaign, the two main establishment parties in Fine Gael and Fianna Fall sought to outplay Sinn Fein by castigating Israel at every turn. Clearly this was going to be picked up in Jerusalem and now Israel is closing its Embassy in Dublin. A sad moment in Irish history and also a very worrying moment for those 2000+ Jewish people still resident in the Irish Republic. They live in a hostile State.
I hope that Israel uses its financial and political power to punish the Jew Hating Irish political class who deserve all they get.
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