Ireland should insist EU acts against ‘rogue state’
That Palestinians continue to resist the whittling away of their country on a daily basis is hardly surprising.
Under the Geneva conventions, such resistance is in fact a legitimate right against criminal occupation policies such as those being implemented by Israel. On March 11, 2008 our then Foreign Minister, Dermot Ahern, speaking in the Dáil, correctly denounced the Israeli blockade of Gaza as “collective punishment… illegal under international humanitarian law”.