Person: Daniel Teegan

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Letter to the Editor: Middle East plan is a recipe for injustice and oppression

“The plan presented by US president Trump and further fleshed out by Israel prime minister Netanyahu is nothing less than a recipe for endless oppression and injustice,” according to the a joint statement from inter-denominational bishops who recently visited Palestine.

Dear Sir... Readers' Views (29/09/16)

We must call upon our government to end arms trade with Israel

Liberation for both Israeli and Palestinian people

Ringskiddy motorway will spell traffic chaos for greater Cork area

Palestinian leadership disconnected from real politik

Israel flouts the law and scorns displaced people

Exposing Israelis as serial perpetrators of injustice is not anti-Jewish. Anyone who makes objective, rational observations in advocating basic human rights and civilised dignity for Palestinians is criticised. 

Thu, 09 Jul, 2015

One-state solution runs counter to EU position

Daniel Teegan’s claim that justice for the Palestinian people can only be achieved by the ending of Israel as a Jewish nation is not merely without empirical foundation. It also, despite his insistence, meets the EU’s definition of anti-Semitism (Irish Examiner, Letters, 4 July).

Tue, 07 Jul, 2015

A one state solution would never work

It cannot be possible Daniel Teegan (Letters, July 4) believes that a one state solution in the Middle East was ever or will ever be possible. 

Tue, 07 Jul, 2015

Read history books if you want Middle East knowledge

Daniel Teegan’s brief account of the birth of Israel is, at best, blinkered, biased and incomplete.

Sat, 04 Jul, 2015

Critics of Israel ignore Islamist attacks in Tunisia

In recent days, Daniel Teegan, Charlie Murphy and Charles Hayes, in the letters page of the Irish Examiner, have articulated their hatred and disdain for the Israeli state and its citizens.

Tue, 30 Jun, 2015

Palestine has never been a ‘nation’ in the European sense of the word

Daniel Teegan (Irish Examiner, Letters 25/6/15) distorts the reality of Israel, saying it is a continuation of Western colonialism in the Middle East.

Mon, 29 Jun, 2015

Israel rightly created on the site of the original Jewish homeland

Daniel Teegan is ignorant of history (Irish Examiner, Letters, June 25). He bemoans the creation of Israel, in 1948, on the basis that the Palestinians lived there for thousands of years.

Mon, 29 Jun, 2015

Israel is a tiny oasis of democracy that has right to self-determination

The image conjured by Daniel Teegan (25 June), of emaciated Holocaust survivors arriving in post-WW2 Palestine – their only available refuge, into which they had to be smuggled in the face of severe British-imposed entry restrictions – as representatives of “European colonialism” would be laughable if it did not embrace so much tragedy.

Fri, 26 Jun, 2015

Joint EU army to challenge Russia is rather pointless

To propose a joint European army to challenge Russia’s “aggression”, is counter productive to promoting peace in Europe. Russia is an integral part of Europe and one needs to remember that Russia took the brunt of Nazi Germany in WW2, and lost over 20 million of its citizens in that endeavour.

Sat, 14 Mar, 2015

Israel’s independence as legitimate as Ireland’s

I was wryly amused by Daniel Teegan’s vision of a de-Zionised Israel, reintegrated into its neighbouring Arab world. 

Thu, 12 Mar, 2015

Semites are defined by a shared history and values, not by DNA

Daniel Teegan claims that the “10m” (in reality circa 6 million) Israeli Jews are not “ancestors of” (read: descended from) “a biblical race of people”. 

Wed, 25 Feb, 2015

Israel’s Jews not ancestors of ‘biblical race of people’

The Arab-Semite population of Palestine before 1947 was 1.2m, of which 10% were descendents of historic Jews and 10% of historic Christian ancestry.

Fri, 20 Feb, 2015

Jewish communities share common genes

Not even Shlomo Sand asserts that most Jews share no DNA with their co-religionists (Daniel Teegan, Letters, February 7) since that would mean that the majority of individuals of that faith are a hitherto undiscovered species. Humans share 99.9% of DNA with all other human beings.

Wed, 18 Feb, 2015

We can’t afford to pay €70m for fighter jets

With reference to Sean O’Riordan’s articles on the Irish Air Corps, it is ludicrous to suggest that this impoverished country should find €70m for a fighter plane, and we would need three planes to keep two maintained in flight-readiness.

Mon, 16 Feb, 2015

We must tread carefully in face of anti-Semitism

In light of the recent resurgence of anti-Semitic sentiment, it is particularly sad to see Daniel Teegan’s disputing of the right/claim of Jews to be in Israel ‘as a myth’.

Sat, 14 Feb, 2015

Today’s Jews share a religion but not genetics

With reference to a recently published letter from Dr McCarthy on the subject of “Israel Indivisible: The Case for the Ancient homeland”, this claim by the Zionists to the right of Jews to a “historic” homeland and a return of the “diaspora” is based on myth.

Sat, 07 Feb, 2015

Gazans just want human rights and to live with dignity

Re Gaza, I am mindful of the authoritative words of John Ging, the UNWRA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) representative.

Sat, 27 Dec, 2014

More to Israeli story than viewpoint of one solider

Daniel Teegan’s account of his conversation with an ex-Israeli soldier (Letters, December 17), depicts the IDF as a rogue force operating outside the norms of international law. 

Mon, 22 Dec, 2014

Israel may be many things but it’s not a theocracy

When Daniel Teegan argues Israel is not a democratic state, but a theocratic one, (Irish Examiner, Oct 17) it is clear he does not understand what a theocracy is.

Sat, 18 Oct, 2014

Ringaskiddy is still wrong location

The Port of Cork intends applying to An Bord Pleanala, yet again, for a 400,000-capacity container terminal at Ringaskiddy.

Thu, 27 Feb, 2014

Boycott fairness queried

Daniel Teegan (Letters, Apr 16) is entitled to his opinion that the decision of a few hundred TUI delegates to boycott Israel is courageous.

Sat, 20 Apr, 2013

TUI courageously opposing apartheid in Israel

The courage and the humanity of the TUI in supporting the boycott of cultural and academic exchanges with Israel is to be applauded.

Tue, 16 Apr, 2013

Playing blame game on Iran-Iraq war

In reference to a letter from Daniel Teegan (Jul 25), firstly his “He must be aware that Iran has not gone to war against another nation” remark: It would be interesting to hear his definition of the Iran-Iraq war, with widespread use of chemical weapons and estimates of up to 1.5m dead.

Mon, 30 Jul, 2012