In a statement, the Irish Anti-War Movement (IAWM) has condemned the Irish government’s failure to impose any sanction on Israel for forging Irish passports and using them to assassinate a Hamas official in Dubai.

The IAWM statement comes in the wake of Tuesday's decision by the British government to expel a senior Israeli intelligence official from the Israel’s embassy in the UK, for involvement in the passport/assassination outrage.

The IAWM said that while Britain’s response to the Israeli outrage was tokenistic and insufficient, it was more than the Irish government had done.

The IAWM said that Taoiseach, Brian Cowen and Foreign Affairs Minister, Micheal Martin, should at the very least match Britiain's action but really should take a step further and expel the Israeli ambassador from Ireland.

Richard Boyd Barrett, chairperson of the Irish Anti-War Movement said:

"Tuesday’s decision by the British government to expel a Mossad official in the Israeli embassy and David Miliband’s statement in parliament, confirm what we all knew anyway: It was Israel that forged Irish, British and other passports to carry out an extra-judicial execution.

NOTICE OF PRESS CONFERENCE

 TO MARK THE SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE US LED INVASION OF IRAQ.

FRIDAY MARCH 19^TH AT 11AM, BUSWELLS HOTEL, MOLESWORTH ST, CENTRAL DUBLIN.

Speakers: Roger Cole (Chairperson, Peace & Neutrality Alliance), Richard Boyd Barrett (Chairperson, Irish Anti-War Movement), Joe Costello TD (Labour Party), Aengus O Snodaigh TD (Sinn Fein), Joe Higgins MEP (Socialist Party), Finian McGrath TD (Ind).

The Irish Anti-War Movement (IAWM) and the Peace & Neutrality Alliance (PANA) will hold a press conference on Friday March 19^th at 11am in Buswell’s Hotel, Molesworth St, Dublin to mark the seventh anniversary of the US led invasion of Iraq in 2003.

The Irish Anti-War Movement (IAWM) will hold a protest tomorrow (Friday 26th Feb) at 5pm outside the Dail to demand the government impose sanctions on Israel in response to the outrage where seven falsified Irish passports were used to facilitate the assassins of senior Hamas figure, Mahmoud Al Mabhouh, in Dubai.

The IAWM said it was inexplicable that Israel was being treated with kid gloves by both the Irish government and the international community when it had committed an outrage that showed complete contempt for international law, human rights, and the soveignity of Ireland and other states.

The IAWM pointed out that if Iran were implicated in such outrages it might well be used as a pretext for military attacks and certainly tougher sanctions, while no action whatsoever was even being discussed in relation to Israel.  

Press Release – Feb 22nd 2010

-IAWM SAYS ASSASINATION PASSPORT OUTRAGE FURTHER PROOF THAT ISRAEL IS A ROGUE STATE AND QUESTIONS WHY ISRAEL IS BEING TRETED WITH KID GLOVES.

In a statement, the Irish Anti-War Movement (IAWM) has said that the almost certain responsibility of Israel for the outrage where seven falsified Irish passports were used to facilitate the assassins of senior Hamas figure, Mahmoud Al Mabhouh, in Dubai, was further proof that Israel is a rogue state that has no respect for international law, human rights or the sovereignity of Ireland and other states.

The IAWM further questioned why Israel was being treated with kid gloves by the international community and the Irish government. The IAWM pointed out that if Iran were implicated in such outrages it might well be used as a pretext for military attacks and certainly tougher sanctions, while no action whatsoever was even being discussed in relation to Israel.  

Press Release – Feb 18^th 2010

-IAWM SAYS ISRAEL SHOULD BE ISOLATED LIKE APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA

In a statement, the Irish Anti-War Movement (IAWM) has said that the almost certain responsibility of Israel for the outrage where falsified Irish and other passports were used to facilitate the assassins of senior Hamas figure, Mahmoud Al Mabhouh, in Dubai, were further proof that Israel is a rogue state that has no respect for international law or human rights.

The IAWM said that, following the horrors inflicted by Israel on the people of Gaza last year and decades where Israel had denied Palestinians the most basic human rights, this latest Israeli action was proof of the need for the international community to isolate and boycott Israel economically and diplomatically.

This Saturday February 20th at 2pm, at a public meeting organised by the Irish Anti-War Movement, internationally prominent Israeli, Palestinian and Jewish writers, Dr. Ilan Pappe (Author of the The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine), Dr. Ghada Kharmi (Author of Married to Another Man) and John Rose, (Author of The Myths of Zionism) will speak in Dublin’s Gresham Hotel about the “one-state solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.