The current Israeli government regards Ireland as the “most anti-Israel member of the European Union,” Pat Leahy, Political Editor of The Irish Times, tells Al Arabiya News.
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00:00When President Donald Trump made those comments on Tuesday night and suggested that
00:05America take take control of Gaza and that people who live there be
00:10Relocated to other places. I'm assuming that generated a lot of headlines
00:13In Ireland by virtue of the fact that people have been following this very carefully then we've heard the Israeli
00:19Defense minister saying that countries that oppose
00:22Israel's military operation in Gaza should take in the Palestinians. He mentioned Spain. He mentioned Norway
00:30He mentioned Ireland. What do people in Ireland think about that idea?
00:32I mean, I think people in Ireland have become kind of used to
00:37those sort of comments from the Israeli government. The Israeli government in protest at the Irish government's recognition of
00:45Of Palestine and also at the Occupied Territories, but withdrew its ambassador from Dublin
00:51Last year now that's something that they haven't done in Norway or in Spain
00:56We're also countries, of course that have recognized the state of Palestine. I mean, there's no doubt
01:02we've covered it extensively in our paper in the Irish Times that the
01:05current Israeli government
01:07regards Ireland as probably the most
01:11anti-israel
01:13member of the European Union and as such has
01:17targeted and will target Ireland particularly with with lobbying in the US and that's where those concerns about the
01:24Potential economic cost of taking such a pro-Palestinian position