Opposition motions calling for a range of sanctions against Israel were voted down in the Dail parliament on Wednesday.

Opposition motions calling for a range of economic and diplomatic sanctions, including the expulsion of Israel’s ambassador in Dublin Dana Erlich, were defeated in the Dail on Wednesday evening.

Proposals for Ireland to refer Israel to the International Criminal Court (ICC) were also voted down.

While the Government did not expel Russia’s ambassador after the invasion of Ukraine, it did back EU sanctions against Vladimir Putin’s regime and also referred its actions to the ICC.

        • tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@feddit.deEnglish
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          1 year ago

          “evil side” is both ridiciously under complex and unhelpful in regards to most geopolitical conflicts and in particular in the case of Israel and Palestine.

          But if you want to think of good and evil, the Palestinians did not deny food, water, medicine, electricity, fuel and communications to more than two million people, while directly killing ten times as many people as the other side did.

            • tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@feddit.deEnglish
              71·
              1 year ago

              So it doesnt matter how many innocent people you kill, but how many you say you want to kill?

              Also how the fuck do you end up with saying all more than two million people in Gaza are evil and deserve to get killed with impu ity because of the actions of a group that has about 20.000-25.000 members?

              That is textbook definition of collective punishment and a typical war crime.

        • anachronist@midwest.socialEnglish
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          1 year ago

          There are 10,000+ dead after a few weeks of bombing. 100 times that would be one million dead (or half the pre-attack population). I guess by your standard the Israelis are allowed to murder up to a million people before it becomes terror bombing?

          Your comparison to WWII is more apt than you think. Consider the firebombing of Dresden. What was the death toll? According to wiki “up to” 25,000. And 55% of the city destroyed. Currently Isreal’s body count is nearly half of a Dresden, with Gaza City virtually leveled! Even the blitz at 40,000 killed, the firebombing of Hamburg at 45,000 and the firebombing of Tokyo, which was the most deadly terror bombing campaign in history at 100,000 dead, are far below your number of one million.

          https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2023/gaza-rising-death-toll-civilians/

    • Successful_Try543@feddit.deEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Yet, Russia is different, as it is an imperialistic power where the minorities are suppressed and their male population sent to die in Ukraine.