The DUP MP Sammy Wilson talks to the News Letter editor Ben Lowry at the DUP conference about whether or not Sinn Fein refusal to condemn Hamas by name makes the restoration of Stormont more difficult. Film taken at Crowne Plaza hotel on Saturday October 15 2023
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00:00 Sinn Fein has once again, through its reaction to what has happened in Israel and the terrorism
00:09 of Hamas, confirmed in the minds of people that they have not left their terrorist past.
00:17 They still eulogise terrorists, support terrorists, and even when the most horrific atrocities
00:23 are committed, they still cannot help themselves but support a terrorist organisation.
00:30 What other political party would stand up and support a group which has been headed
00:37 children, kidnapped grannies, devastated pop concerts, gunned young people down as they
00:44 listen to music.
00:47 What other credible political party would behave in this way?
00:51 I'll tell you one thing, and this makes it more difficult, to sit down with them at a
00:57 time when we know that had the assembly been up and running, they would have been carrying
01:02 out the same tactics in the assembly, divisive, angering and destructive.
01:09 So are you saying it has an impact on the return of Stormont?
01:11 I think it's an impact on how people view them as responsible colleagues in a government.
01:19 Many people will say, how can you work with people who have once again shown that they
01:25 are terrorist supporters and that they are no different, they treat outside terrorists
01:31 the same way as they treat the IRA, they eulogise, glorify and in doing so hurt victims over
01:37 and over again.