EU External Action Service, Brussels (2014/17), Public Relations, EU Scty & Def, Climate Change, Turn the Tide on Plastic, + Sports. Adjutant Braveheart, 1994.
Kildare, Ireland
Joined July 2017
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"Ireland is extraordinarily clear in its condemnation of Hamas…[& for] the right of Israel…to live in safety & security. But we also believe that reason has now been replaced by revenge"
I spoke with @SimonHarrisTD, his first TV interview as Taoiseach. Watch our full interview
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Today, Bulgaria and Romania join the Schengen family.
I welcome the lifting of internal air and sea border checks.
This is a great success for the people of both countries.
It also benefits millions of EU citizens across Europe.
Making the Schengen area even stronger.
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Horrified by UN report that half of Gaza’s population face catastrophic food insecurity & imminent famine.
This is entirely man-made. Israel bears responsibility for restrictions on food, water & health supplies. These must be lifted immediately; a huge increase in aid is needed
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The #ICC arrest warrants against high-ranking Russian officers for war crimes committed against Ukrainian civilians send a reminder to Putin and Russia's leadership that their judgment day will come.
There can be no impunity, no immunity, including for the crime of aggression.
Situation in #Ukraine: #ICC judges issue arrest warrants against Sergei Ivanovich Kobylash and Viktor Nikolayevich Sokolov. Read more ⤵️
icc-cpi.int/news/situation-u…
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BREAKING: MALAYSIA REPRESENTATIVE MADE THE FOLLOWING ARGUMENT TO THE ICJ ABOUT ISRAELI CRIMES
Malaysia told the ICJ that Israel “must withdraw immediately from the Occupied Palestinian Territory”.
“Second, Israel must offer assurances and guarantees of non-repetition and third, Israel is under obligation to offer full reparations – annulment or repeal of all offending legislative and regulatory measures it has adopted for the [occupied Palestinian Territories],” he said.
“Israel must also offer compensation for all the material and moral damage caused by the breach of the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination,” he added.
Malaysia’s representative also said:
As I speak, Gaza is facing devastation … The West Bank is also at risk.
Safeguarding Palestine from destruction is crucial, especially in light of Israel’s non-compliance with the provisional measures of this court.
The Palestinian people have long suffered dehumanisation, demonisation, brutal collective punishment. They have endured and are still enduring the denial of their right to self-determination due to the policies and practices of Israel in the OPT. It is incumbent of each of us to do our part in ending their decades-long suffering.
With the firm belief in this court’s rule, as the custodian of the international law, we remain confident that justice and peace will prevail for the Palestinian people.
Israel’s transfer of settlers to the OPT constitutes a war crime. Israel’s policies and practices which aim to change the demographic composition of the OPT, along with the creation of enclaves and demolition of the Palestinian homes, limitation of their freedom of movement, including the blockade and siege of the Gaza Strip, constitute violations of international humanitarian law and the international human rights law.
John retweeted
Full house at the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly in Vienna to present the Navalny Act (confiscating the $300 billion of frozen Russian central bank reserves and giving to Ukraine). We need to send a message to Putin: your murder of Navalny just cost you $300 billion
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Powerful statement by Attorney General on behalf of 🇮🇪 at International Court of Justice hearings on legal consequences of Israeli practices & policies in Palestine. We have concluded 🇮🇱 has committed serious breaches of international law. Full statement: t.ly/7uE3O
John retweeted
"I'm not afraid. I'm old. They can only kill me."
A brave Russian woman. Thank you. We hear you, too.
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Wow, Lula isn't mincing words. Here's the translation:
teapawt.net/FepalB/status/17…
"What's happening in Gaza isn't a war, it's a genocide. It's not a war of soldiers against soldiers. It's a war between a highly trained army and women and children. What's happening in Gaza and with the Palestinian people [...] already happened in the past: when Hitler decided to kill the Jews."
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Decades of injustice will finally face scrutiny. ICJ hearings on Israel's illegal occupation starts on Monday.
52 countries & 3 int'l organizations will participate in the oral proceedings, more than in any other case in ICJ's history since 1946.
hrw.org/news/2024/02/16/worl…
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“It is absolutely clear that a military operation in Rafah would entail grave violations of international humanitarian law.”
“All countries must demand an immediate humanitarian ceasefire. There can be no further equivocation.”
Statement by 🇮🇪’s FM on the situation in Rafah ⬇️
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I believe that all of you would prefer the Russian President to be interviewed by a judge in the Hague.
And I truly hope that one day we’ll get there, ideally without the necessity of abducting Mr. Putin in Argentina,”
says Polish Ambassador to the US
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The U.S. must end its complicity in the nightmare unfolding in Gaza.
That is why I will be offering an amendment to the supplemental bill to ensure zero funding for the continuation of Netanyahu’s illegal, immoral war against the Palestinian people.
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The #EU is Israel's largest trading partner, accounting for 30% of its trade in goods. The EU-ISR economic agreement stipulates 'respect for human rights' (art 2).
The #ICJ's recognition of the risk of Genocide obliges the EU to suspend the agreement.
policy.trade.ec.europa.eu/eu…
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Here’s our report from #Gaza when our camera crew filmed Israeli snipers shooting into crowd of Gazans trying to return to homes in the north - it was the first day of the #ceasefire It’s happened again today youtu.be/4hDhADyHXhg?si=ZQLt…
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Appalled by horrendous events of past 48hrs in #Gaza.
Killings of so many in schools-turned-shelters, amid fleeing of hundreds from Al-Shifa Hospital & ongoing displacement in southern Gaza, wholly inconsistent with protection of civilians required under international law.
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Fifteen things you should never have to say to a country:
1. Stop bombing children.
2. Don't kill journalists.
3. Don't bomb hospitals.
4. Don't shoot patients through their hospital window.
5. Don't drive bulldozers over dead bodies.
6. Don't bomb ambulances.
7. Don't do ethnic cleansing.
8. Don't call humans animals.
9. Don't starve people.
10. Don't cut off people's water.
11. Don't cut off the electricity at hospitals, killing their ICU and NICU patients.
12. Don't bomb doctors.
13. Don't bomb UN staff.
14. Don't do apartheid.
15. Stop lying constantly.
