Joe Biden trashed by Irish lawmaker: "Keep our country out of your mouth"
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Clare Daly, an Irish Member of the European Parliament, criticized the president over his Israel policy.
        • @TokenBoomer@lemmy.worldOP
          2•11 months ago

          Despite the catastrophic death toll it has inflicted, Israel is losing," Daly said. "On the ground and in the court of public opinion. There’s no way that this ends that doesn’t leave Israel a pariah state, with occupation and apartheid on borrowed time and they know it. So they’re doing everything they can: desperate acts of aggression to provoke a wider conflict with Lebanon, with Iran, with anybody, to draw in the U.S. to save them from the consequences of their own actions.

          Can’t believe I missed that part.

        • @TokenBoomer@lemmy.worldOP
          2•11 months ago

          Clare Daly:

          “And as Yemen shows, butcher Biden is reporting for duty. With Europe’s Frau Genocide by his side, they are the ones who have enabled the continuation of Israeli terror. Without them, it would already be over. So take notes butcher Biden: the ancestors of the Ireland that you claim to be from disown you. Keep our country out of your mouth. And as for [Ursula] von der Leyen and genocidal Germany with your words and deeds supporting Israel in the ICJ: not in our name! The people of Europe stand with Palestine and with South Africa.”

          Probably not.

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    1•11 months ago

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    Speaking in a plenary session in Strasbourg on Tuesday, Daley, who is a member of the left-wing Irish party Independents 4 Change, which is part of the European Parliament group The Left in the European Parliament- GUE/NGL, criticized the U.S. president for supporting Israel and authorizing airstrikes on positions held by Iran-backed Houthis inside Yemen last week.

    In December, he told a campaign fundraising event that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is “starting to lose support” and that changes needed to be made because of the mounting death toll in Gaza.

    “I understand their passion,” the president said, in response to pro-Palestinian protesters interrupting a speech he made in Charleston, South Carolina, earlier this month.

    Meanwhile, there have been calls for Irish politicians to show solidarity with the Palestinian people by refusing to attend St Patrick’s Day celebrations in the White House.

    Gerry Carroll, a member of the legislative assembly of Northern Ireland for the People Before Profit party, called for a boycott in January.

    In response, Democratic Massachusetts Representative Richard Neal, who co-chairs the Congressional Friends of Ireland caucus and has had good relations with Sinn Féin, told Politico he disagreed with the expulsion proposal.

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