The failure of the Government, and the Minister and Minister of State who spoke for the Government today, to condemn the attack by Israel and the United States on Iran is an absolute disgrace. The world is now paying a price for the bloodlust of the psychopaths who run Israel and the psychopaths of the Trump Administration who are attacking Iran and setting the entire region on fire, precipitating economic consequences for literally everybody in the world. The Irish Government cannot bring itself to condemn that. It cannot bring itself to condemn the slaughter of 160 innocent schoolgirls massacred by the Americans and the Israelis. In the last two hours, a 12,000-seat football stadium in Tehran was destroyed by a US-Israeli attack. A football stadium, which also had swimming pools, cycling facilities and dormitories, was levelled. What has that got to do with anything other than bringing death, destruction and horror to the world? There is a lot of interesting commentary saying that the Americans and the Israelis do not know what they are doing or what the end game is. It is totally wrong. They know exactly what the end game is: they want to do to Iran what they did to Gaza. They want to extend the genocide that we witnessed for the last two and a half years in Gaza into Iran. They want to destroy it. That is what it means when they attack schools and murder schoolchildren, and they attack football stadiums, just like they destroyed all the hospitals, all the schools, all the universities and all the water infrastructure and killed 75,000 people at least in the genocide in Gaza. They now think they can do it again in Iran because they got away with it against the people of Gaza. They continue to get away with it by ethnically cleansing the West Bank, so they think they are going to get away with it in Iran and dominate and control the entire region. It is suggested that Donald Trump does not know what he is doing, but he knows exactly what he is doing. He is going to make America great again. This is about the US empire and doing what it did in the past in El Salvador, Chile, Nicaragua, Cuba, Iraq and Afghanistan and what it is doing with America's and the West's cat's paw called the Israeli State, the genocidal regime that has been ethnically cleansing the Palestinian people since 1948 and has now reached the level of committing a genocide. Now, it wants to extend the fire, death and destruction all over the Middle East in a way that is now threatening the entire world. We said if you do not sanction this regime, we will all pay a price. Now, literally every single person in this country is paying a price for the bloodlust of Trump and Netanyahu in their pocket. Twenty thousand Irish people in the Middle East are paying the price with their security, having to shelter and flee from the fallout of the death and destruction Israel and the Trump Administration are inflicting. The Irish Government cannot condemn it but worse it is complicit in it by allowing the US military through Shannon Airport while it prosecutes this slaughter and while it threatens to set the entire Middle East on fire. It is facilitating it as we speak, just as was done by previous Irish Governments when they facilitated the US-led war on Iraq in 2003, also based on a pack of lies about weapons of mass destruction, supposedly about taking out a dictator which led directly and indirectly to 1 million people dying and 4 million people at the time being displaced in the biggest refugee crisis the world had ever seen until that point. That also triggered the destabilisation of Syria and led to an even bigger refugee crisis which the world is still seeing the consequences of. It led to the rise of ISIS and Al-Qaeda. This is the consequence if you let these people away with it. Is the Irish Government seriously going to go over and hand this guy a bowl of shamrock next week? It is disgusting. It is such a betrayal of our tradition of neutrality and anti-imperialism that we are going to get down and bend the knee to these bloodthirsty warmongers who are setting the world on fire. It is really revolting. I do not believe the Government has the support of the majority of people. Most people can see what is going on, the price we are going to pay for it and the economic price they are starting to pay themselves as well as the horror beginning to unfold across the Middle East. There is a logic to this. I will disagree with Deputy Paul Murphy, in that when Trumps says it is dangerous when certain people get nuclear weapons, he is absolutely right - he is dangerous. Donald Trump has nuclear weapons and Netanyahu has nuclear weapons. Israel is the only country that will not sign nuclear non-proliferation treaty. Even Iran signed that and was willing to do a deal over this stuff. Even though I have criticisms of that regime, the Omani foreign Minister has confirmed it. This is pure bloodlust, warmongering and imperialism by America and Israel and the Government is complicit in it. It is shameful.

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