Cheering Ireland
CrossFireArabia- January 8, 2025
The International Court of Justice announced today that Ireland has filed a declaration of intervention in South Africa’s case against Israel, based on Article 63 of the Statute.
The Court clarified that Ireland invoked its right to intervene under this article, relying on its status as a party to the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
Last month, Ireland joined South Africa’s genocide lawsuit against Israel.
- CrossFireArabia
- December 22, 2024
Irish President Michael D. Higgins makes a special mention of the suffering of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip in the Christmas address Saturday.
He said that Gaza becomes a ” crucible of suffering for children and their families”, condemning the international community silence on what have been happening there.
“The silence of many influential figures in the face of gross human rights violations against civilians grants impunity to those who blatantly impose collective punishments on civilians, including starvation, which, as I speak, particularly affects women and children,” Higgins said.
Why The Silence on Gaza?
- CrossFireArabia
- December 22, 2024
Pádraig Murchadhfinn wrote this on X:
“It is a great shame that Ireland is a special case, but the shame is not Ireland’s.” – Mark O’Connell
The Irish Times
Ireland May Turn Closed Israeli Embassy Into a Palestine Museum
- CrossFireArabia
- December 21, 2024
Ireland is considering transforming the former Israeli Embassy in Dublin into a Palestinian museum.
“Faisel Saleh, a Palestinian-American businessman and founder of the Palestine Museum in the United States, expressed interest in transforming the former Israeli embassy in Dublin into a Palestinian museum, calling it “a political statement.”
The idea of the Palestinian museum is trending on social media. The move comes within days after Israel decided to close its embassy in Ireland after what it called rising anti-semitism in the Irish country.
“The decision to close Israel’s embassy in Dublin was made in light of the extreme anti-Israel policies of the Irish government,” Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said in a statement last week.
The tension between Israel and Ireland came to the fore when the latter on 28 May, 2024 made a decision to formally recognize the state of Palestine.
